Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

in statistics, founded SAS more than 30 years ago with colleagues from North Carolina State University. He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Sometimes, these differences can be trivial; other times though, they can become the source of an irrational line-in-the-sand battle between teams as they insist on maintaining their way of ‘how things are done around here’ So what can leaders do to free their teams from these organizational silos?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2015

The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout. What Makes A Decision Irrational? What are we ignoring that can be resolved? About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2015

How do political in-fighting or long-term client/colleague relationship preferences factor in to the decision process? It's possible to override these problems by helping funders/clients recognize what they need with by teaching them how to uncover and manage the hidden issues necessary for excellence to occur with minimal disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Have you ever wondered why perfectly sensible, rational, and intelligent colleagues resist or reject perfectly sensible, rational, and intelligent ideas? But the reality is that the nurse was doing what she thought best, which made her appear irrational to others. Irrational behavior is part of the human condition.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

To see how employees interpreted these policies, my colleague Marlo Goldstein Hode and I gave 24 employees of a large government organization a copy of the organization’s sexual harassment policy, asking them to read it and then tell us about the policy. This shift is subtle but significant.

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Policies Document Report Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." The project ran successfully for hardware development, and the project management tools worked exactly as expected.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

If you ask your colleagues (in a confidential survey) to estimate their percentage contribution to your enterprise, the total will always exceed 100%. If the total adds up to less than 100%, you probably need new colleagues!). This over-estimation of our past success is true in almost any workplace. There is nothing wrong with this. (If

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Or a manager could go online, any time of the day or night, and see how his team was performing, who deserved a bonus, who was lagging, even if those people were customer service staff, or engineers. Effron holds that many executives are far more ready for stronger transparency measures than their HR colleagues suspect.

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Benchmarking Objective Performance Review Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

He manages a $2 billion hedge fund that had a terrible quarter — two of his largest positions, both energy stocks, dropped 25%, turning what would have been a lackluster result into a disaster. HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work. Managing People Book. One case in point I came across recently was Brad. Further Reading.

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Letter Price Hedge Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The best thing to do if you work for such an egocentric boss is to compensate for their natural disposition by being alert to problems and risks, and trying to manage them. If, on the other hand, leaders are Machiavellian, they will enjoy using their charm to manipulate others, and create cultures that are highly political.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

At least in our narrative, engagement has replaced productivity — work should be rewarding and fun, colleagues should be friends, and work-life balance has been replaced by work-life integration (as we work from home at 1 a.m. HR has evolved into people analytics, and talent management has become the organizational guinea pig for big data.

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Talent Management Human Resources Taylorism Taylor 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. When results are strong, the manager basks in the glow, prestige, and compensation attached to outperformance. The bar to convince your colleagues is higher than for just yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

In a series of studies that my colleagues and I conducted, we investigated how employees’ perceptions of the economy affect how they work with one another. The bank run of 1930 resulted in the worst economic downturn in the modern history, the Great Depression. Something similar might happen within organizations.

Banking 8

Banking Cooper Follow-up Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Brett, professor of dispute resolution and negotiations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Before you take your colleague to task for stepping on your toes, do some research. The manager makes the decision and neither one of you will lose face.” Do your research. Escalate carefully.

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How To Project Software Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. Anxiety can lead to exaggerated worry, irrational fear, and obsessive thoughts. When the situation worsened, his colleagues were let go with a bare-bones package.

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Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Or a manager could go online, any time of the day or night, and see how his team was performing, who deserved a bonus, who was lagging, even if those people were customer service staff, or engineers. Effron holds that many executives are far more ready for stronger transparency measures than their HR colleagues suspect.

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Benchmarking Objective Performance Review Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

They succumb to changing times and conditions, to innovations by competitors, to poor decisions and lack of adaptability by their owners and managers, and to bad luck. As above, the dangers of cognitive bias with regard to overoptimism and "irrational exuberance" have been well-studied. Most businesses fail, eventually.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first introduced by academics , thousands of independent scientific studies have highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in relation to career success , job performance , entrepreneurship , and leadership. Be rational.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

With several of my colleagues in a similar situation, weeks of speculation ensued as to which analysts were in and which would get the boot. Senior management attempted to mollify us by rattling off the reasons why this acquisition made sense, but for those of us wondering if we had a job, their strategic vision was irrelevant.

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Uncertainty Maslow Disruptive Innovation Report 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I’ve seen newly promoted managers declare they will stop climbing the career ladder rather than risk falling victim to The Peter Principle – their pay-packages be damned. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' Take that new boss you hide from by planning your lunches with NASA-like precision.

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Budgeting Committee Learning-by-Doing Letter 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

You fantasize about walking into your manager's office, tabling your resignation letter, and cleaning your forsaken cubicle for the final time. You flash your trapped colleagues a half-sympathetic smile, but you're barely able to contain your excitement at the new direction you're about to take. Why the emphasis on a long arc?

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Long-term How To Micromanagement Career 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Biggest fear: Uncertainty and fear of irrational behavior of others. Besides the yearly training, the principles of the patient types are reviewed at every morning staff meeting in a Trivial Pursuit–style card game that also includes questions on issues such as infection prevention, medication safety, and checklist management.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Fear is dead as a management tool. 85% decision-making is irrational– but most brand research is purely rational. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The best managers know to coach their employees , but what if someone doesn’t want your help? Resistance to coaching takes many forms,” says Amy Jen Su, managing partner of Isis Associates, an executive coaching and leadership development firm and coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.

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Resistance Case Study Executive Coaching Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Dimon and his colleagues, and the executives at Société Générale, committed a different kind of mistake: they failed to notice the absence of critical information. What's Your Risk Attitude?

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Trevor manages an account that contributes more than 20% of the firm’s revenue and the client has made it clear that they want him to stay involved with the engagement. We take illogical positions that undermine our own interests based on irrational impulses, just like Allison and Trevor did.

How To 8

How To Long-term Consultative Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

So when people talk about the factors leading to the recent recession, and you hear a lot about excessive risk-taking (what Alan Greenspan famously called "irrational exuberance"), the prevention-focused would probably be last on your list of potential culprits. Economy Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

My work with top executives has shown that deep-seated, sometimes irrational fears can skew their decisions and their ability to execute company strategy. Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.”

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Micromanagement CEO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” If this is about to end, it’s more because of changes in the economy and in technology than some sort of irrational degree frenzy.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Managers berate subordinates in meetings. Colleagues make snide remarks about each other. Add to Cart. None of these executives intentionally tried to inflame their employees, their customers, or the public. But no workplace is perfect.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This compulsion is not irrational, as these unrelenting messages are not supplemental to real work — they’re instead at the core of what we now mean by this term. Even the most strident email opponents recognize that we need some way to coordinate and communicate with colleagues. The concept is simple.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

The cure is simple and compelling: Managers and executives confronting serious strategic, operational or cultural disagreements on issues that matter should insist that their people be able to convincingly make their opponents’ case. But that’s numeracy’s new normal. We won’t do it!” Confirmation Bias uber alles.

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