Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

New forms of stimulus and incentives should be created to appeal to these technologically savvy, bright and environmentally conscious young minds. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation. General Business'

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Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2014

Holy frijoles, 2013 is over! What was your 2013 resolve? IDENTIFY YOUR BIG PICTURE: What’s going on in your life and your career right now? Technology shifts. I think it’s also important to separate family opportunities from business and career opportunities. ” “Why do I want to grow my career?”

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Goal Incentives Objective Customer Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, of the profound productivity difference between employees who just punch the clock to get their daily pay and those who engage in learning to make productive contributions through which they can build their careers and thereby reap future returns in work and in retirement. Employee incentives. That’s just 2.1%

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. At a time of profound volatility in the U.S.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8