Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Are you tapping into a diverse collection of views and backgrounds or just one homogenous group of people? How do you touch and engage a diverse workforce and diverse customers in every community you serve? Not likely. Probably not.

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Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2022

If we choose to thrive on turbulence and change, this time is a rare gift to participate in, and help shape, new ways of doing and being in our personal lives, organizations, communities, and societies. We then list all the external trends creating the biggest challenges for this organization.

How To 72

How To Trends Sharpe Cooper 72

CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Great leaders know where their blind spots are, present a high-resolution vision of the organization’s future, and are mindful of activity happening on the periphery. Too much focus on the periphery can result in whiplash for the organization.

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Leadership Objective Sharpe Diversity 129

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

The new book, The Empathy Advantage , speaks to anyone with responsibility for recruiting, engaging, leading and retaining the next generation of workers – a workforce shaped by the pandemic that fundamentally transformed the relationship between individuals and organizations. From peers as competitors to peers as collaborators.

How To 65

How To Open-book Learning Curve Crisis 65

CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision Great leaders know where their blind spots are, present a high-resolution vision of the organization’s future, and are mindful of activity happening on the periphery. Now wiggle your fingers. That will catch your eye’s attention.

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Leadership Objective Sharpe Diversity 78

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Leadership Tip: Unwillingness to change is a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations. But it’s a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations. How do you instill this value into the culture of an organization? I work with leaders who understand that they have to be a strong advocate for change and demonstrate these changes.

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Short-term Sharpe Document Open-book 80

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values. By recognizing and rewarding these strengths, employers can create a diverse and dynamic team. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Great leaders know where their blind spots are, present a high-resolution vision of the organization’s future, and are mindful of activity happening on the periphery. Too much focus on the periphery can result in whiplash for the organization.

Leadership 60

Leadership Objective Sharpe Diversity 60

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

You’d think executives from the same organization would offer the same responses. Most of my work has been with non-profits, where the problem may be even worse because such organizations want to please everyone. Great strategies bring a razor sharpness to the company that energizes both employees and customers.

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Strategy CEO Marketing Strategy Human Resources 234

Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

Gipsie loved to travel to experience diverse cultures and history, taking many trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. A resident of Brentwood, Tennessee and an avid supporter of the Nashville Symphony, Gipsie was an international consultant to organizations on management, quality improvement and statistical methodology. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Sharpe Seminar Quality 28

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. This very nimble organization allows Amazon employees to build their own path by owning their development, their career, and their future. They get to build the future. Looking ahead, we will focus on three things.

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In a global analysis of 2,400 companies conducted by Credit Suisse, organizations with at least one female board member yielded higher return on equity and higher net income growth than those that did not have any women on the board.

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Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business. At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. Setting diversity goals isn’t enough.

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Diversity Engineering Goal Industry 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view. It can help them innovate.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

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Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

This restaurant holds two major lessons for organizations around the world that are built on innovation and want to keep their creative edge. Innovative organizations don’t worry about how to maintain excellence so much as how to find the new excellence. Always keep evolving. Bottura expects his meals to evolve over time.

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Creativity Sharpe Diversity Wilde 11

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Offer Appropriate Reward It is often the case that while we talk a lot about collaborative work in organizations, our reward systems frequently continue to acknowledge individual effort disproportionately. Being able not only to tolerate, but to encourage diversity of thought will go a long ways in inviting co-creation and collaboration.

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Blog Diversity Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 55

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) Some people seem to think fun involves organizing an event. In my experience, the ROI of a 15-minute exercise like the one described above (calibrated of course to match the organization’s culture) is significant. THE THEME: Viagra advertising slogans. 4 Responses to Make ‘em Laugh !

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Advertising Blog Stress McCarthy 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

This preference is in sharp contrast to Gen Y’s as a whole; a recent Deloitte survey found that only 20% of Y’s overall want to be a leader in a large organization, while 70% of respondents want to launch their own organization. Diversity Hiring Talent management' In an online survey of 602 U.S. The Degree Is Doomed.

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Company Insurance Long-term Sharpe 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. Compensation Diversity Economy' But during World War II this began to change, and by the 1970s black workers were more likely to be in unions than white workers were. Who’s going to do them now?

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Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

As sponsors, they are giving meaningful advocacy to others within the organization. Instead, as we discovered in interviews, many successful STEM women have discovered that sponsoring others helps them build their own reputations as leaders who groom great talent — and can also help them keep their own skills current and sharp.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Much to my surprise, I found that these extremely successful family business owners don’t draw a sharp (and artificial) line between “us” and “them” – the mentally healthy and those less healthy. It’s this diversity that is so crucial to good decision-making, and which gives an organization the competitive edge.

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Open-book Sharpe 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Leaders of philanthropic and other non-profit organizations naturally blame the economy for this problem; and many expect things to get worse as the economic malaise drags on. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp.

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They are the "buckets" into which we organize the world. In a culture that flowers with an increasingly diverse variety, this is useful. I am sure there are many other categories that organize her world, but if we were to follow up each of these, we would have a useful map of the things that matter to her. It's a very soft sell.

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Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

In other words, Hermann concludes, "Comcast, the organization, is tormenting them both." But not only does Lady Gaga have a great and sticky thesis, she’s endowed with a sharp mind for branding. Like all powerful brands, hers offers newness and diversity, a good lesson for all consumer companies, writes Denise Lee Yohn.

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Norton Brand Sharpe Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Those who fail to recognize that the economy is improving are likely to play defense for too long, leaving opportunities for top-line organic growth on the table. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These sharp differences between Chinese women and their counterparts in other countries show that multinationals can't have one cookie-cutter global policy for women," says Rosalind Hudnell , Chief Diversity Officer and Global Director of Education and External Relations, Intel.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Below are nine key steps we’ve taken to reduce bias in our selection cycle, convince people we’re serious and thus draw a more diverse group of outstanding speakers. Studies show that bringing in decision-makers from under-represented groups will help your organization attract more similar people. Diversity Gender'

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Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Look around your organization, at the people with whom you interact every day. A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Differences — Not Just Diversity. There are two aspects of individuality that we explore in the context of organizations.

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Leadership Pipeline Diversity Creativity Airlines 8

Decker Communication

MAY 19, 2022

Range emphasizes that it’s the people and organizations that think more broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives that will increasingly thrive. So why do leaders and organizations communicate in tightly focused and hyper-specialized language?

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Agility Sharpe Diversity Reference 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level. “Loudership” is the term used by one organization we’ve worked with. A recent experiment I performed at a major STEM organization provides an example.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Was he suggesting that since it’s such a small organization, this national outrage was overblown? But I’ve found that managing an organization in which there are a range of passionately-held political views requires a proactive approach. Be an example for your team by respecting diverse political views.

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Politics Sharpe Media Diversity 9