HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

With 66 percent of workers operating remotely at least part-time, effective strategies for leading virtual teams have become paramount. Set clear goals and objectives, leaving no room for ambiguity. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

You can’t cement victories into your operating system, but you can cement behaviors. There is a time when you cannot change things, they will not get better on their own, and you need to take a sharp right turn to escape your predicament.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic. You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Here are four principles applied by some of the most successful (and most disruptive) leaders of the new world.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer. Thanks for the great insights Tanveer.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

It involves assessing an employee’s strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and providing feedback on their performance. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Get a notebook and a sharp pencil, and get started. Start with questions about them, their goals, skills, and recent successes on the job. By talking with these people, you build your understanding of the world you’ll be operating in, and at the same time lay the foundation for positive working relationships in the future.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet, once we acknowledge its power over us, we realize that forecasting the environment is necessary if we are going to achieve our goals. It’s not a Cloak & Dagger Operation! The good news is that the environment is not conducting a cloak-and-dagger operation. Let’s take a closer look at how to forecast our environment.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool Then the decisive moment: the unveiling!

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Mark Brouker.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors. Strategy and Culture Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. The goal: Help patients clarify and document their care preferences, communicate those preferences to providers, and then oversee their preferred mix of medical and nonmedical care, ensuring they receive no more and no less than they want.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

There were misunderstandings across the group about what one another did and sharp differences in how each subgroup defined a successfully commercialized product. R&D viewed operations as “the people who only know how to say no to opportunities,” while operations viewed R&D as “the time- and money-wasters.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. ruble volatility) and policy (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

” Computers are great at optimizing, but not so great at goal-setting. Or even using common sense. Integrating New Technology Is About Emotions. Not every revolution is a good revolution, as Europe has discovered several times.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

In other words, many of us operate on autopilot. Understand that mindfulness is not just a sedentary practice; mindfulness is about developing a sharp, clear mind. As the day progresses and your brain starts to tire, mindfulness can help you stay sharp and avoid poor decisions. You’re not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The goal was to optimize decision-making all along the value chain and boost earnings by tens of millions of dollars. In many companies, teams seem to come together out of nowhere, grabbing any available resource, operating without adequate planning, and then fail to gel. The manufacturing company is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

The goal was to give each business unit greater control of its sales process, and in former CEO Mark Hurd's words, to "perform better — for our customers and partners.". But they often see only the benefits of the structure that they are not operating in. The alternative looks enticing. Unreasonably so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your goal is success. Write the blog posts that help customers help themselves such as “How to do X-common-goal in our app,” or “How to set up x feature” Bonus: these articles will make your sales people very happy. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. Defining politics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

” My coaching clients seem to intuitively understand how this mindset has helped them get past bumps in the road and achieve their goals. As Priya Anant, global head of vendor operations at Google, explains, “Sometimes team members see a dead end when it’s really just a sharp turn in the road.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on. Vi Hart is lesser known but her engaging videos explaining mathematics have been viewed millions of times. Want to get a taste? Check out this story.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. By starting slow and building scale, Otpor could show, to their own members and the country at large, that they not only had clear goals, but that they were making progress against them. Otpor, on the other hand, created a movement that cascaded through the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. I think his real goal is to work more closely with you at headquarters? To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst. From: Sameer Hopskin, Asst. From: Sameer Hopskin.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Everything operated as its own unit. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Third, to be blunt, Blue Sky's engineers didn't seem all that sharp when it came to systems engineering. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. Cars took shape by the hundreds on immaculate assembly lines tended by robot arms and white-suited, white-capped workers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

By the grace of God and connecting with generous people, Ellen got to the chairman of Merck Sharp & Dohme, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. ” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. Some think that the path to their goal should be easy. Inspirational on all counts!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Feeling cooped up in the executive offices and oppressed by the presence of the media, MacDonagle had gone outside to breathe some air — actually, some tobacco smoke — and had invited the sharp young program manager Samantha Van Sant to join him. Rapid ramp-up was a laudable goal," he said. She knew speed was critical.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

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