HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. The question gnaws at you.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This article focuses on the latter, inspecting how you, as a manager of a business, can make better decisions, and manage your resources more wisely, in order to improve growth, boost profits, and please shareholders. In the modern age of business, you need to be sharp to manage your business towards having a competitive edge.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 31, 2023

Enhanced Decision Making A well-rested leader is a sharp-minded leader. “Sleep isn’t just a time of rest, it’s a cornerstone of leadership success. Successful negotiation requires sharp critical thinking, emotional control, and the ability to understand the other party’s perspective.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2019

Being a successful leader can be exhausting. If you don’t know how to manage your energy it’s easy to become exhausted or burned out. Leadership requires a sharp focus and their careful attention, with no room for checking out. Successful leaders have plenty of stress. Snack smart. Hang out with positive people.

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General Leadership

APRIL 18, 2013

Karen is the CEO of the New York-based strategic technology, staffing and project management company Sharp Decisions. For almost a quarter of a century, her organization has been providing best in class technology services to both national and international clients. Uncategorized Charity Honor Sharp Decisions V.E.T.S.'

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Like the generations preceding them, Millennials are products of the major events and technologies that became widespread during their formative years.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In 1980, Peter Drucker wrote a cutting-edge book called Managing in Turbulent Times. Rapidly advancing technology (sometimes helpful and sometimes not). If you engage in consistently correct behavior, you’ll be successful. The futile search for perfection will kill success, because it is never achieved.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

As any restaurateur knows, the success of a dining establishment hinges not just on the quality of the food but equally on the performance of the staff. This article delves into the different aspects of staff training that can lead to a successful and profitable dining business. It starts by defining the roles within your business.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. A Virtual Learning Expedition is a live online experience that will bring senior managers to the next level.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

Technical Barriers – No technology exists to help with this. At 113, she enthusiastically embraced technology. Her mind still sharp, she busied herself with a long to-do list, but rigidly insisted the list must be completed in a specific order. We need to do things in a certain sequence. This might hurt.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. 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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. Accelerated change driven by exponentially advancing technologies have made steep learning curves part of every day work. From managing people and processes to enabling success.

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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. In 2020 alone, we created over 500,000 jobs globally and used our scale to come up with new ideas to manage the challenges posed by COVID-19. How are you going to shake things up next?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2019

For instance, if you are hiring a person looking to be a sales manager, focus on their communication skills and their thinking skills. Same goes for innovations and technology. Therefore, team management and team spirit is something which each perfect hire must have. What you have to look for is the quality of work in a person.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. This easily leads to miscommunication, misunderstanding and misalignment (from the start) about what the problem is, what success looks like, why it matters, and what’s at stake.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

You see, the most important item to understand is that success as a leader has very little to do with your perception, but rather it has everything to do with the perception of others. Regardless, you are probably not destined for success in leadership. When it comes to authentic, transparent discourse, motivations matter.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If you’re a well oiled machine at work, but your family is falling apart at the seams – who cares?

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

And the advice they give often sounds reasonable: The World Economic Forum published a post , in cooperation with Business Insider, listing 14 things successful people do before breakfast. A list that Forbes published claims every successful person shares this quality: “They know when to stay and when to leave.”

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

To date, there have been numerous studies that have shown the growing expectations employees have on their leaders to demonstrate a greater proficiency in leading people over managing tasks.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. I see good IT people promoted as IT managers because of their good results in IT, and then others wonder why they are bad managers.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. &# To know what you need, determine your strengths and strategize to supplement your weaknesses. No one is equally expert at both. Rehearse your pitch.

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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. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? There are no short-cuts in management.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2017

Take inspiration from a successful brand, but don’t copy and paste their ethos onto yours. You need a compelling, short, sharp message, but at the same time, doesn’t seem rushed or underhanded. With a modern screen printing exposure unit , this technology can print off intricate t-shirt designs that are one-of-a-kind.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Management cred? Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Media multitasking makes managers less thoughtful and more inclined to exercise poor judgment, Nass says. At the very least, managers should insist that employees bring no electronic devices to meetings. No, says Guy David, a Wharton professor of health-care management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

aren’t taught management skills in medical school. A popular way of bringing physicians up to speed is to elevate them into management roles and team them with business executives. Fair or not, they believe it’s harder for leaders without clinical expertise to see how cutting costs impacts quality of care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). Worse, only about one in six data groups (15%) were judged successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. And managers aren’t helping. Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. What does success look like in your position? Solve for your own blind spots.

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