HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

An internal survey by Goldman Sachs junior employees detailing the crushing workload and the accompanying stress due to demanding bosses has led to some stocktaking about the working conditions in the industry and the high attrition rates. And that’s ripe for automation,” said Roy Choudhury, managing director at Boston Consulting Group.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

.” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Our latest survey with corporate leaders found that change fatigue is one of the top 2 challenges faced when building organizational cultures.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

A recent survey showed that 39 percent of Americans have forgotten or misplaced at least one everyday item in the past week. Keep it sharp and you’ll make a great impression by having the answer at hand before anybody else has time to pull out their smart phone. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). It’s not an imposition on management to hear out all these diverse ideas; it’s not a separate HR “program” to be tolerated. Dear readers! About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Year after year, Forbes ranks N2Growth as one of the best Management Consulting and Search Firms.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Surveying —Here, 3D displays can be effectively used to show “as-built” surveys of complex facilities, such as processing plants; deformation monitoring of land or structures; surveying hard-to-reach or hazardous areas; construction planning and progress tracking and modeling. Planar Systems, and Suntronic Technology.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2019

A recent survey by global business consultancy PwC, found that 72 per cent of CEOs are worried about the availability of key skills , stating that it’s not a lack of people that is the problem, but a lack of people with the RIGHT skills and abilities. These clients are profitable and have the money to pay more. But they don’t.”.

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LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

Maritz Research recently released the results of a survey they conducted on trust in the workplace. We ask a series of questions regarding three areas of trust: (a) senior management trust; (b) direct supervisor trust; and (c) co-worker trust. Senior management’s actions are completely consistent with their words.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Twenty thousand employees were surveyed and overwhelmingly picked “being treated with respect” as the most important leadership behavior. Before I do, let me tell you a little more about that fascinating survey of the twenty thousand employees, conducted by Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath for Harvard Business Review. Mark Brouker.

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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. So Ayres and co.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 3, 2013

He’s sharp, connected, and passionate about what he feels called to do. And based on the research we did in partnership with The Barna Group for the book, the survey and data would validate that assumption. He’s grown from 5 employees to 50 in the past year, and wrestling with how best to manage his staff of 20 somethings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. One blind patient said, “The nurse case manager went with me and stayed through it all.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised. It’s no wonder why.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

A marketing professional who dreaded the thought of planning the next strategic campaign couldn't bring herself to move into management consulting, a move which she acknowledged would be both exciting and a much-needed change. But I've found that a sharp focus on incremental gains could also lead to "premature optimization."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years. Few industries, if any, will be untouched. Knowledge workers will not escape. Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". By the way, you don't have to start from scratch when generating content: Dig up other presentations, industry studies, news articles, reports, surveys — anything that's relevant to your big idea.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In addition, managers in a subset of stores were encouraged to offer more workers a core schedule that did not vary from week to week, with stable starting and ending times and a “soft guarantee” of at least 20 hours a week. Most managers interviewed gushed about the app. “I love it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

This preference is in sharp contrast to Gen Y’s as a whole; a recent Deloitte survey found that only 20% of Y’s overall want to be a leader in a large organization, while 70% of respondents want to launch their own organization. In an online survey of 602 U.S. Diversity Hiring Talent management' The Degree Is Doomed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. But the similarities end there. The payoff?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. In return, women we surveyed who have achieved success in STEM are more likely to have peers who back their ideas in meetings than other women in STEM, and are more likely to have peers who ensure they receive credit for their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

“Just like great service to customers, great leadership comes through creating a remarkable experience for associates,” wrote management consultant John Patterson. You are JC Penney,” said the new CEO, Marvin Ellison, at their recent store managers’ conference. Real Leaders Invite Passion. It takes a long time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". By the way, you don't have to start from scratch when generating content: Dig up other presentations, industry studies, news articles, reports, surveys — anything that's relevant to your big idea.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Roivant’s second innovation initiative was to forcefully inject an openness to fresh thinking and outside practices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. Get benchmark information from surveys and specialist experts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

As the meeting progressed, it was clear that these Ivy-schooled individuals were slick, sharp, and well-structured. In a recent study [PDF], just 36% of Chinese students surveyed agreed that "entrepreneurs are popular amongst my friends and family members." You could almost smell the overhead. I opted to get a real job."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

And those employee survey results are abysmal.". Vijay Kumar, the India office managing partner, and Aparna Nayak, his second in command, always assured Stefan that things were fine and reminded him of their growth figures. credentials and a sharp business sense. He's seen the employee survey results," Aparna said.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Since 2010, we've been conducting an ongoing survey of managers' attitudes about the strategies of their organizations ( click here to take the not-for-profit version of the profiler).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Generate high levels of social engagement, sharing, and brand interaction, which can lead to sharp increases in digital brand advocacy. We then surveyed 60 viewers to find out which emotions each image activated for them. The campaign has more than 2,000 results in Google News. What we found was compelling: 1. Astonishment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

To establish a baseline, we used our 10-minute Workplace Experiences Survey to measure ambient levels of racial and gender bias. We then gave a 90-minute workshop, called “Bias Interrupters for Managers,” that differs from most bias trainings in three ways. How does that make sense?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

The few who do are often confronted with dismissive complaint handlers who treat their experiences as interpersonal problems or instances of poor management rather than sexual harassment. Over time, the mere presence of these symbolic structures came to be accepted not only by HR and management professionals, but also by lawyers and courts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. Now that game is over.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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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 12, 2015

These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. According to a new report from Project: Time Off , which surveyed a representative sample of over 700 kids between 8 and 14 years of age, and their parents, our always-on habits are reshaping our children’s lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

That number has climbed to 23%, according to a new Gallup survey. Perhaps even more important is the sharp rise in Americans who expressed no preference, even when cued to care. Batlan surveyed 142 legal secretaries and found that not one preferred to work for a woman partner (although, importantly, 47% expressed no preference).

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