Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Having served as Chairman and CEO of SAP EMEA (Europe, ME, and Africa) and President and CEO for SAP Asia-Pacific, and a member of the SAP Global Board, Les was asked to delay his retirement for two years to take on the role of Global Head of HR, responsible for all of SAP’s Human Resources activities worldwide.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 17, 2014

I recently got a call from Mary, an EVP for human resources, who was dealing with the integration of people and systems after her company had made a large acquisition. A temporary change in behavior to “look good” in the short term will only create cynicism if Bill doesn’t stick with it. Life is good.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

August 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus As an executive coach for the last eight years, I’ve had some phenomenal clients put on a short list of “leaders to discard” even though they shouldn’t have been. This might mean you need to contact Human Resources or your EAP. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. Recommend Resources: While it may be tempting to give personal advice and to take charge of the problem, this is seldom an effective course of action.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2011

There are no ‘Piles’ of resumes in a digital world, and ‘personnel’ has been renamed Human Resources about a generation or two ago. Your career objective should match the company’s short term goals. ’ Seriously? When were these books written? Who was President? Skip the career objective.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. AFTER exploring accessible connections, research those you most respect and try to cultivate a contact or, at a minimum, try to get good advice from them. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home. Although it’s a go-to resource, the working-parent grapevine doesn’t always provide the most useful or can-do support. Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. Those organizations and managers who use terms like ‘world class’ are usually wanna-be’s who won’t ever quite make the measuring stick.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. A natural reaction would have been to obey the short-term signals and retrench and, indeed, that’s what most of our competitors did, dismissing up to 50% of their staffs. BCG’s advice was therefor similar to that of the HBS professors. But we barely downsized.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

To date, she has occupied positions in human resources, product development, and stakeholder engagement. As he told me, ”Especially in contrast to organizational and role purpose, where multiple stakeholders shape the outcomes, my advice is to invest as much effort, if not more, in figuring out our personal purpose.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

You can rely on these mentors for advice because of their more senior perspective. They may be able to start you off with advice or leads, but their area of influence is usually within a single organization. Just at the moment that you really need professional advice from someone senior and more experienced, you are on your own.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” It offers practical advice to employers, large and small, based on the latest research on workplace programs, expert advice from practitioners and candid interviews with business leaders. Introducing short-term campaigns. Paying people to change their habits. Sending people to your health plan’s website.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Note that while this advice is based on policies and norms in U.S. companies, the general advice can be used in any setting where you are hoping to negotiate a better situation for yourself): Know what you're entitled to. Start by reviewing your organization's employee manual or talking with someone in HR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. We’ve had the opportunity to study the doers, for lack of a better term.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Employees themselves are often confused about the right way to resign, too, as evidenced by the abundance of websites offering tips and advice for employees who want to know how to quit their jobs. So employees who want to leave on good terms should steer clear of these strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges a company can face is changing people’s behavior — getting them to collaborate and be humble, for example, or put the company’s long-term interests first. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

You owe it to your job to think about it long term,” Clark says. Make sure you develop thoughtful responses to future questions in interviews about your short tenure at the job, emphasizing that you felt it wasn’t a good fit for your skills and goals. Be humble enough to thank them and try to leave on good terms.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Contract terms and conditions. The stakes of negotiating at home can feel sky-high: which medical advice to follow; how much to spend or save; how long your aging parents can live at home; whether to stay together. Our biggest donor said I could ask him for more money if we fell short, but I feel awkward going back to him again.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As they built up a unique network of thousands of entrepreneurs across 35 countries, they started to see that there was a lot of demand in reverse — companies kept asking them for advice on how to become more entrepreneurial instead of wanting to simply connect with entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

You might have sought them out for advice, to bounce ideas off them, to help you evaluate opportunities, or to help you strategize important moves. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Don’t worry about who they should be. To start, assess the network you have today.

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