Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At the organizational level, as I have written frequently, effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

To a large extent, he’s speaking directly to us humans, who may well lack confidence that we can continue to provide a superior value proposition relative to advancing technology. The best that they can do for you is to augment the strengths of your people — you know, those humans you’re at risk of underrating.

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Competitive Advantage Storytelling Airlines Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One survey in 2015 found that on average, just 3.6% The key to identifying and addressing at-risk employees before a breach or incident occurs is to focus as much on understanding and anticipating human behavior as on shoring up technological defenses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Still, as military experts will tell you, air campaigns don’t win wars.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. One client in San Francisco who works with a fast-growing tech company shared that she gets up at 4 a.m. “Is this normal?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Functions such as human resources can use self-service digital platforms and intranets to provide consistency on overarching issues while regional managers control decisions such as hiring. release date.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market. Experts in the field have not endorsed the notion that genetic testing for chronic disease predisposition is effective, though that could change as the technology improves. What is the cost of genetic screening to the employer?

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