Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Hiring for Culture Doesn’t Matter: Hiring people that don’t believe in your values doesn’t make sense because they are harder to acclimate with the processes and people you already have in place. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence.

How To 108

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s easy to get stuck, wondering why what you’re doing isn’t working, lamenting all the resistance you face, and not knowing for sure what to do next. The Irresistible Change Guide is a comprehensive kit that provides the steps and tools to plan ahead to reduce obstacles and also deal effectively with inevitable resistance when it happens.

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Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. Were managers supposed to be more relaxed about expectations, more focused on the process, more forgiving when their subordinates missed deadlines? We ended up putting a lot more resources into this step than into awareness.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. There was lots of resistance.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. In theory, the organizational challenges of algorithmic autonomy map perfectly to which processes or systems are being made autonomous. That was the challenge. The Autonomous Outsourcer.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Adjust the established principles as insights from the review process indicated.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. Who could resist? For one, in many jurisdictions, regulators face pressure from consumers or the political process to let new entrants provide services that consumers consider exciting and attractive.

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The vision outlines the essential principles that will guide the company’s detailed strategic planning, organizational design, operational priorities, and performance goals. Enterprise leaders are not people leaders in the traditional sense; they are the system architects of their company’s long-term success.

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Company Long-term System Operations 8

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When church leaders “used” artists for their own narrow agenda, the artists resisted or left. There is no easy solution to this issue, and I am not going to trivialize this issue by presenting a five-step process to doing so. Most never returned. None of the artists I interviewed liked being pigeonholed into a single category (i.e.

Human Resources 158

Human Resources Loyalty Project Long-term 158

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

” If nothing more, “it creates a sense of procedural justice” so that your employee knows that the process was fair. I want to thank you for applying and going through the process. ” Grant concurs: “It’s human to want to make it up to the person, but you must resist that impulse.”

How To 8

How To Case Study Human Resources Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. The challenge sponsors picked the best ones, and they are responsible for eventually rolling out the product, service, or process improvement.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

These are the points at which every company must assess its own status and chart the process forward: The Big Picture. Management is concerned that resources are not concentrated on important things. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. The organization is not now what it started out to be.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. To resist the urge to self-censor. The wholesale industrialization and mechanization of the creative process. I’m glad I did. And research was the new god. An elaborate hoax.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

That’s because cyber criminals are opportunists who seek the path of least resistance. SAM positioned the company to build an IT roadmap and implement a reliable and scalable solution that has reduced security risks and streamlined operations, yielding an annual cost savings of $100,000. Aligning Data Sources.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Software Licensing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Resist the temptation to tell your tyrant boss what you think of her on the way out the door. “Do Employers are obviously going to be upset that their choice didn’t work out and they have to go through the process of hiring all over again. Take the high road. Do not get mad and do not burn bridges,” says Claman.

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Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

To assist in the selection process, I suggest seven basic search guidelines: Search for small players or divisions of large players in industries you like. Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic. Don’t resist starting in the sales department. In those companies you’ll find entrepreneurial thinking.”.

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Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Analytics, algorithms, big data, and artificial intelligence increasingly abolish work previously performed by humans but also create new work at the interface of humans and automation.

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Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8