Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” This can lead to feelings of disconnectedness and what I term: leadership misfit syndrome.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 248

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Understanding what a strong company culture is and creating a positive work environment is necessary for any company’s long-term success. If you aren’t bothered as much by hiring stats , then it’s also important to note that 65 percent of employees would leave a company that received negative publicity for its company culture.

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Company Environment Policies Metrics 98

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about 3M’s recent Cultural Revolution and how the initiatives promote change within the company in practical terms? We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis?

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” ” You probably got bored right at the phase “long-term shareholder value.”

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan. Creating a mentoring program, that will work with the individuals that are selected as high potential to ensure their skilled-knowledge development for continued growth of the organization and the individual.

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 112

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Specifically, we see three ways to include make security efforts more empathetic: Consumer-driven goals that are actionable and specific. By researching the cultural and physical contexts in which people use your products, you can define better, more precise goals for those products. What would help them feel safe?

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Tools Engineering Rate of Return Focus Group 8

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. Introducing short-term campaigns. In fact, they may even do more harm than good by promoting quick fixes as opposed to long-term progress.

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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

It's even harder for low income parents when getting those vegetables to the table involves two bus rides after a long day standing on your feet, plus a big chunk of your paycheck. In focus groups throughout the state, mothers routinely believed that they were doing their best for their kids. What could we try differently?

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Succession Long-term Short-term Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Others, mostly northerners, are concerned with the potential costs to themselves or the project's long-term viability and desirability. Greece has been able to get away with disastrous "fiscally equivalent" measures where structural goals were not met, leaving the original problem intact.

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Restructuring Banking Politics Project 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. My analysis of the women’s responses, including their career decisions and the support they received from their managers and organization, led me to identify four main ways they develop and advance toward their goals: They want power and influence.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But before the hiring team starts measuring candidates’ culture fit, they need to be able to define and articulate the organization’s culture – its values, goals, and practices — and then weave this understanding into the hiring process.

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Diversity Human Resources Environment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Over the past decade, my colleagues and I at Emergent Research have interviewed more than 1,500 freelancers/independent workers both one-on-one and in focus groups, during which we often discussed the role that feedback plays for them — mostly as it pertains to developing a new business.

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How To Project Review Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Long-awaited bulk shipments of medical gloves can arrive full of holes, unusable. The vast majority of these deaths don’t have to happen, which make these losses even more tragic.

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Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

We started with focus groups drawn from both our graduate class at Northwestern University and a global high-potential program we run at Aon. While Brian could explain his goals using statements made by Eric Schmidt, this didn’t give him automatic legitimacy or the ability to compel others to adopt his recommendations.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dedicate manpower and resources to look for patterns or trends that may indicate inequities, especially within specific job roles or demographic groups. Consider both immediate adjustments and long-term strategies for preventing future disparities.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Conduct focus groups. Interpret the results to management in terms that are easy to understand and support. If steadily built, the trust can be exponentially parlayed into successful long-term business relationships. Maintain community files. Organize an ongoing feedback system. Document the findings.

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Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

With that goal in mind, the greeting card and media company equipped members of its long-established online consumer communities of women advisers with a simple ethnography app, which they used to conduct a variety of projects. “And what we learned was sobering.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8