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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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A Visa for Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Rethink outsourcing. Your leadership is crucial. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership'

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What CEOs Have Learned About Social Media

Harvard Business Review

For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. — Lyle & Scott (@Lyle_and_Scott) August 29, 2013. LinkedIn gives CEOs a chance to promote their thought leadership, attract talent, and serve as Influencers in their industries. Develop a thick skin.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. It is clear that CIOs must lead their organization in discovering and then providing balance between efficiency and efficacy.

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Bureaucracy is a Bogeyman

Harvard Business Review

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. The answer should be pretty obvious by now: I did!

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. What went wrong?