HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Meet The Woman Who Has Changed IBM’s History Harnessing the power of data analytics to transform process, people, and culture is not easy. Human Resources has traditionally been very process driven. According to Diane Gherson, “speed and innovation” are two essential organizational competencies in the digital era.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

What this looks likes may vary person to person, but if you believe in the company’s purpose, discover an inclusive culture aligned with your values, find leaders and teams that you can have open and honest conversations with, and are offered opportunities to keep learning and growing – you’ve hit the career jackpot.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Ask employees -- while officially called "associates," they sometimes refer to themselves as Martians -- about a member of the Mars family, and you're about as likely to get a revealing answer as if you'd asked about the proprietary process in which they stamp "m" on the little colored candies. . Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Source: The New Yorker, September 23, 2013. John Agno: When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women Related articles. The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks". The individual is valued for the total picture of who they are and what they can contribute. John Agno: Decoding the Executive Woman''s Dress Code.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. All rights reserved.

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Business Simulation Leadership Strategic Planning Bottom-up 60

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Agility Competitive Advantage Advice Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Innovators think and do things differently in order to achieve extraordinary success. Our research indicates that whether they are CEOs, senior executives, sports team owners, or film directors, game changers who stand head and shoulders above the rest share a common set of qualities that we call the innovation mindset.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

To my surprise, during the interviewing process, GM promised me a different type of workplace (one that existed, at least, at this plant), one based on the Deming philosophy. The document continues, “In committing to the above philosophy, we recognize the development of the Livonia Plant environment to be a dynamic process.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Innovators such as Elon Musk and Jony Ive have become household names. Follow news developments related to industry or societal trends and read books about the process of creativity, such as David Burkus’s The Myths of Creativity or Michael Michalko’s Cracking Creativity. You need to share your ideas.

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Creativity Forrester Proposal How To 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way. Led by GE, along with partners such as Alcoa and Lockheed Martin, the new Get Skills to Work (GSTW) program convenes manufacturers and educators to prepare and place veterans in long-term careers in advanced manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Us” were the people who believed that design could add significant value when tightly integrated with other business processes. In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion. It used to be about “us” and “them.”. “Us”

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress.

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Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. After the mass shootings in Aurora, Columbine, and Newtown, versions of this process were put into practice in both locations. Let me explain.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. How do you avoid your applications getting tossed by HR or automated filters?

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Ballmer had done his job, but the strategic needs of the organization had shifted.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ’” Here’s a sample mid-career resume that does this well (source: John Lees, Knockout CV ). See below for exactly what to include.

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How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. Define your role and career path. ” Create separate spheres immediately. Have a backup plan.

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. Because only when you acknowledge that you are blind to an issue, can you begin the process of seeing more clearly. Marilyn Monroe changed Ella Fitzgerald''s career.

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Ries Conference Diversity Power 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Your company probably has a hierarchical process for deciding the proper course of action, and that process probably doesn''t put you at the center of the matter. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As co-CEO of the design and architectural firm Gensler , I’ve spent my career designing workplaces and studying the link between design and business performance. recall seems to indicate that the organization’s remote work policy was no longer a type of choice that supported Marissa Mayer’s stated goal of enhancing innovation.

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Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

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. Social innovation. Employee incentives.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain.

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Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Her HBR book was named a best business book of 2012 by Fast Company, she gave an acclaimed TED talk, and she was given the Thinkers50 “Future Thinker” award in 2013. I asked her how she decided to blow up her life mid-career — again — and make the leap. What was the decision making process like?

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Travel Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. The behemoth of “legal process outsourcing” is Axiom, which has commodified large companies’ contracting and certain litigation functions.

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8