HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

IBM is one of the leaders in agile adoption and has multiple articles that encourage the early inclusion of agile HR project planning and enterprise agility at all levels of the business. It encourages immediate, internal interaction and a change-centric approach to work across projects and teams.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

The potential for such projects was illustrated by the UK government, whose Government Digital Service (GDS) suggests that around £1.7 When it comes to developing government as a platform, nations have generally taken slightly unique approaches. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Reinforce a “team-first” mindset – Seek opportunities to pair employees up on project or decisions. A few of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Your title makes you a manager. The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Your people make you a leader.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

In 2001, when I had actually decided to retire from “corporate life”, my company asked me to consider a change in direction, rather than a departure, by taking the role of Global Head of HR. I was surprised at the number of reluctant managers I came across. Guest Post by Les Hayman.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

Reinforce a “team-first” mindset – Seek opportunities to pair employees up on project or decisions. A few of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Your title makes you a manager. The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Your people make you a leader.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Performance Appraisal.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Money talks, honey.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Philosophy: Although agile is originally a methodology developed by software programmers. It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. On average, those projects generated enough financial savings to pay back the loan in just three years.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license. Besides, companies need to develop their own plans. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. Unfortunately, the son had no fire in the belly. He had never had to strive. Visioning comes first.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Yet the attribute of humility seems to be neglected in leadership development programs. And to the extent it is considered by managers rising through the ranks, it is often misunderstood.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Another project, FeedMe , learns what web content a user's friends like to hear about and then helps the user share content with them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Apparently, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have already made quite a lot of the term corporate athlete, having coined it way back in a 2001 HBR article ( I was only 13 years late to the party! ) Performance and Development. The performance–development balance also has a particular relevance to the work-life realm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. It demands specific skills and you need to develop these skills to win the game.". We invite you to share your own stories with us in the comments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. training managers to take a new look at work processes. training managers to take a new look at work processes.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Since we are often being moved along in a perpetual parade of tasks, projects, and problems, emails, texts, and crises, we often lose sight of the people whom we lead. The environment was so toxic that a Gallup manager described employee engagement as “among the worst [he had] ever seen among the Fortune 500.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

You drop by an employee’s workspace to discuss a current project and she continues to work on the computer while you are having the discussion. Back in 2001, in the article "Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching," found in the Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, Vol 27.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. The project, still in its infancy, is focused on cutting the BMI (Body Mass Index) of Camden's 23,000 children in half over the next decade. Perhaps you've heard the story. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

If economic forces were left to themselves, economic forces would victimize the peripheral nations, while the developed nations at the "center" would gain all the benefits of trade and development. In 2005, Chavez supported an oil pipeline project that would link Venezuela's oil to Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? And what about getting candid feedback for your own growth and development? That might mean dedicating time to professional networking and enrichment groups so that you keep up with business contacts and develop new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba projects a population of 10.8 When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. million in 2030. million in 2030.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. .” In other words, the most digital sectors are developing a winner-take-all dynamic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Projects succeed or fail based on whether they deal adequately with potential pitfalls and obstacles. When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances. And when does it make more sense to focus on the bigger picture ?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. Software development should be a no-handoff, collaborative process.

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