Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Leadership is putting a face to management science. A good leader is an able manager. And an able manager is someone who can recruit, hire, train, and mentor. This preoccupation with acting more like a parent than a manager means that talent is not recognized, budgets go awry, and strategic alliances fail.

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Chart Your Course

JULY 24, 2017

This is a question every good manager or business owner should ask periodically. To keep a happy workforce, it’s important for employers to offer effective incentives to their people. However, employees can spot gimmicks or incentives they know aren’t worthwhile. Do your employees enjoy their work environment? Support wellness.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It is always said that the success of a company comes from its human capital. However, one wonders how the most recognized companies achieved such an efficient human resources department. Any entrepreneur should pay attention to this point because recruiting staff is a fundamental task in an organization.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Do leaders believe that the incentives they use will actually work? Check out this study from Harvard's (Emeritus) Michael Beer and Nancy Katz published in Human Resource Planning called Do Incentives Work? At the same time, executives believe incentives only improve performance slightly, if at all.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 12, 2017

I’m sure you’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule before, but have you ever thought seriously about its impact on your talent management initiatives? It doesn’t force the organization to have a set number of below average “1” ratings (on a scale of one to five for example). Taming the Long Tail of Performance. or “Why are you staying here?”,

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Let me give you some examples of how a sign can do the talking for you. These kinds of signs tend to compel customers to have a reason to buy through deals, sales or incentives. Generally, signs stimulate communication. Escorts customers. Sale signs are one of those business talkers we’re talking about.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Lead purposeful and inclusive digital-first meetings: When managing hybrid teams, leaders must think asynchronously and reconsider if a meeting is necessary, be diligent about sharing meeting agendas and pre-reads ahead of time, as well as capture and share action items post-meeting.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2019

As an example, task management software can be very useful for those working in teams to avoid miscommunication and those individual staff members who are taking on the slack of others. There are many other systems that now exist, including mobile device management for better asset management.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate. They invest less in acquiring knowledge, reducing their skills and innovativeness.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Cross-cultural differences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Business school faculty often bemoan how their students place too much importance on economics and finance courses and not enough on more humanistic ones, such as human-resource management. Our results were published in the March issue of Academy of Management Learning and Education.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so. Asking for help.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Here’s a simplified description of the difference between the two approaches. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 12, 2018

Guest post from Phyllis Weiss Haserot: Leaders and human resources executives can learn a great deal from baseball’s top executives at the Chicago Cubs. Monetary compensation is not the Cubs’ most important tool or incentive offered. Senior leaders -- take notice! They don’t enter a salary bidding war.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

” This is a classic example of a bad boss pushing people. ” Weak Managers Try Manipulating with Money. We’ve known for decades that lack of money can quickly turn people off, but financial incentives aren’t very effective at turning most people on. Ultimately, the problem is a failure of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Of course, this is just one example, and there are a number of reasons why these firms’ performance varied during this period.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since the cost of a bad hire is widely estimated to be at least one year’s pay, there are huge incentives for organizations to get hiring right. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since the cost of a bad hire is widely estimated to be at least one year''s pay, there are huge incentives for organizations to get hiring right. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Think of providers and health plans as suppliers and manage them as such. Maintain internal cost and quality data as you would for other suppliers and use improvement plans, incentives, and penalties. Offer employees incentives to choose quality providers based on objective performance on quality indicators as defined in Step 2.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

But there’s a good reason it’s one of the most commonly-repeated management anecdotes: it illustrates the idea that a workforce motivated by a strong sense of higher purpose is essential to engagement. We offered an incentive of two extra paid days off at the end of the year if we met the 10,000 stories goal by Thanksgiving.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

But if corporations join the public sector in recognizing that this problem is a convergence of societal, economic, and cultural factors and apply good management practices to address it, we can bend the curve. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When we asked the chief human resources officers at a number of major companies whether they had a coherent system in place to evaluate and compensate the CEO’s succession performance, most reported that their firm had none. Place the board leader in charge. Embed succession planning in corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks. What gets lost is that incentives, regardless of which ones are applied, filter through employees’ brains along with every other aspect of the employment experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

There is no "mismatch" between the industries and occupations where people were laid off and where hiring is taking place, for example. We know, for example, that employers are spending far less to recruit and hire a candidate than before the recession, which may make it harder to find the right person.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” A worldwide scheme by thousands of business managers to manipulate public opinion seems far-fetched. They are even harder to manage. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

For example, our research shows that the demand for Java developers has grown 72 percent since the fall of 2009. Hiring managers will have to closely monitor what competitors are offering to retain top employees and recruit new ones — for any job, at any level. Take initiative to retrain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo. These are "people skills.". But it's also unusual.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Though that may sound like perverse logic, or perhaps a reaction to a poorly thought-out incentive system, research has found they’re not alone.

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