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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.

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What Government Should Relearn from Business (And It's Not Efficiency)

Harvard Business Review

When, eventually, sequestration has passed and Washington and its watchers have moved on to the next big debate, alongside all the recriminations there will be this: the familiar calls for government to demonstrate more of the effectiveness that we see in the most successful private sector companies. The clamor won't be altogether misguided.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. It was a successful campaign: CEO paychecks came to consist mostly of stock options. Jensen and Kevin J.

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

As a reaction to these business changes, the enterprise is beginning to respond in a number of ways: Outsourcing services. Future successful enterprises will be socially enabled, and they will operate as digital business ecosystems--very different from contemporary hierarchical, fixed, integrated, transactional structures of today.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. To be fair to the CIO, CEOs have created this problem by emphasizing efficiency and cost-cutting over value creation. IT management'

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

Harvard Business Review

The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. Compared to our original plan, a larger part of the development phase will now be executed in 2013. Because of the delays, we’ll need to do more development work in 2013, though the budget remains unchanged.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

To be successful at strategy through experimentation, adaptive firms master three essential thinking steps: they continuously vary their approach, generating a range of strategic options to test. They carefully select the most successful ones to scale up and exploit. . • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.