HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Do you ignore that gap in your resume and tackle the expected questions during the hiring process, or give an explanation on the resume itself? The same question was put to some hiring managers and their opinion was to tackle the question head-on. Addressing the gap in a cover letter is recommended by some hiring managers.

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How To Letter Career Course 90

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

To me, it’s all about trustworthiness, the existence of a solid process, and a holistic approach that considers all aspects of an entrepreneur’s life and business. Why Process Is Important. What are the characteristics of the “ideal” adviser? Defining “Trustworthiness”. How do you know whether your financial adviser is trustworthy?

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The first edition of their book, The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, published in 2002, formed the foundation for a unique 360 strengths-based assessment and development process. From dozens of leadership competencies, they found 16 that reliably predicted those outcomes.

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Review Leadership Pipeline Webinar Long-term 81

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Franchising is a unique vehicle in that it allows businesses that traditionally are not scalable, such as restaurants, retail and service businesses to become scaled through franchisee’s investment and willingness to manage the local business. About the Author.

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Franchising System Entrepreneur Strategic Planning 65

Tim Milburn

MAY 7, 2012

Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed. Each team member carries his or her own weight and respects the team processes and other members. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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Team Construction Audience Follow-up 155

Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2012

Summary: The reliance of external assessments removes the accountability and authority for the judgment of a persons capability to complete and do their best work from where it ought to belong, the direct Manager. This confusion creates strife and a false belief that psychology is what managers should evaluate. Jaques 1994).

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Long-term Report 147

Mike Cardus

APRIL 14, 2011

Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable. List is from Elliot Jaques “Social Power & the CEO” 2002. Click to start now Exponent Leadership Process. Why do people work ? Why do you work?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Tell people your style and thought process for navigating tricky, or even every day, decisions. In our experience, and this is backed up by research, there's a direct relationship between the agility and resilience of a team and the transparency of its decision­ making processes. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

The first area of determining what a person values about their work requires the manager to talk with them, observe them and for YOU to know and share what you value about your work. Repeat the process with someone else. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Content from the Relevance Enneagram Model. Do Something.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Sally Blount, Dean of the Kellogg School of Management, and Sophie Leroy, assistant professor at University of Washington’s Bothell’s School. CEO tenure in the Fortune 500 has fallen from an average of 11 years in 2002 to six years today. Sally Blount is dean and the Michael L.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2023

Since 2002, Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition. That experience has informed tremendously how we structure what we do now — you can’t disenfranchise people from the process by just giving them orders." I remember one website where the owners of the company said, “O.K.,

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LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 31, 2011

2002 Team-Work Requires People To DO Their Own Work. This is why clear individual goals and tasks (held accountable by the manager of the person) and clear specifications of which person is to complete which specific task, with a time frame needs to be established in order to have effective team-work occur.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 14, 2011

Making Horses Drink: How to Lead & Succeed in Business Alex Hiam Entrepreneur Press (2002 Note: I read and then reviewed this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. Frankly, I am even more impressed now by Alex Hiam’s use of an extended metaphor than I was then. Creating Thirst Long ago, [.].

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Review Books Entrepreneur How To 75

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: six of twelve steps to standing out among professional peers. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired.

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SWOT Human Resources Letter Competitive Advantage 56

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2013

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: last six of twelve steps to standing out among professional peers. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired.

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Human Resources Document Competitive Advantage Resources 50

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

When the steps in the coaching process described below are followed, leaders almost always positive behavioral change – not as judged by themselves, but as judged by pre-selected, key stakeholders. This process has been used around the world with great success – by both external coaches and internal coaches.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Franchising is a unique vehicle in that it allows businesses that traditionally are not scalable, such as restaurants, retail and service businesses to become scaled through franchisee’s investment and willingness to manage the local business. About the Author.

Franchising 51

Franchising System Entrepreneur Strategic Planning 51

Building Personal Strength

APRIL 17, 2012

Gardner (1912-2002). I wasn't one of the lucky ones ultimately chosen, but during the selection process it was my was good fortune to sit next to John Gardner during lunch. Also, I've learned that this is the last part of the brain to develop itself, a process that begins at puberty and continues throughout adolescence.

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Leadership Self-aware Creativity Bottom-up 92

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. They described how each Technicolor employee had a target of suggesting two process improvements per month. That sounded like a great way to keep a process improvement program going. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 9, 2012

In 2002, legendary training and development expert Jack Zenger (he’s been given numerous international awards and citations) and Joe Folkman (renowned psychometrician with extensive expertise in survey research and leader assessments) published their groundbreaking book The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders.

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Motivation 360-Degree Feedback Emotional Intelligence Review 53

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

In 2002, professors Edwin A. Don’t be too concerned about whether the goal is jointly set by the individual and manager together, or whether the boss just hands the subordinate the list of goals he expects the subordinate to achieve together with a tough due-date. Locke and Gary P. Let everybody know what your goals are.

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Goal Management Tips Commitment 13

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S. For almost every quarter from 1992 through 2001, GE managed to hit or just beat Wall Street’s earnings forecast for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Consider Sodexho.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Since the country opened its doors in 1978, the economy has witnessed tremendous growth. China’s business landscape has also undergone a transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. To find an innovative way forward, we looked beyond our own industry because traditional approaches in health care management had not evolved much over the previous decades.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sara Rynes, Amy Colbert, & Kenneth Brown conducted a study in 2002 to determine whether the beliefs of HR professionals were consistent with established research findings on the effectiveness of various HR practices. And yet that’s how many companies operate. In the case of 4-Qs, probably not.

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Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Yet AT&T executives quickly came to believe so strongly in Job’s vision that they skipped internal process protocols to land the deal. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "Over the past decade we moved from a multinational organization to a globally integrated enterprise with global standard processes.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

When managers come up with creative solutions to unforeseen problems or run with unexpected opportunities, they are not undermining systematic implementation; they are demonstrating execution at its best. Emphasis added]. This defines the whole of strategy as one of the three core pieces of execution!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

And, as reported in a recent New York Times article , women make up just 17% of Google’s engineering employees and 21% of its managers. These biases, which social scientists have found to be prevalent in our society, are rooted in our tendency to rely on cognitive shortcuts — in essence, stereotypes — to process incoming information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

We've seen the challenges of serving as lead integrator, project manager and IT operations manager for the Olympics grow over the last decade (our relationship with the IOC has been in place since 2002), and Atos has grown with them. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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