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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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Second, DPIs are encouraged to enroll in a leadership program offered jointly with Harvard Business School as well as a process improvement course focusing on lean techniques and the plan-do-study-act model. In addition to helping improve health care value, those projects reinforced lessons DPIs received in their training programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Leadership transitions Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door? .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Launching this week is the ambitious African Business Fellowship, which Masiyiwa is chairing with implementing partners the African Leadership Network and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why we work determines how well we work. One 2013 study illustrates this well. How does culture drive performance?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. Leadership & Managing People Book. Further Reading. Getting Work Done (20-Minute Manager Series). Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Big corporations seem to have it especially hard: according to an Accenture survey , only 15% of college students who graduated in 2015 said they would prefer to work for a large company. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. This has real costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%. But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Perhaps most critically, the key fault with so many of these business and leadership articles on generational differences is that there’s no evidence-based, empirical studies to back up their assertions. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. Badger J.M.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Selecting the top three award-winning case studies and the best-selling cases each year for the five-year window between 2009-2013 yielded a total of 53 different case studies — some of the same cases came up as best-sellers several years in a row, and a few were both best-sellers and award-winners. Pink topics.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S.

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