HR Digest

OCTOBER 15, 2020

They fret over the upcoming election and its potential impact on their families and finances. One PwC analysis showed that productivity in the workforce was propped up by a small cohort of super-achievers, which disguised a decline in productivity among the rest. Workers aren’t just worried about losing their jobs or taking pay cuts.

Productivity 76

Productivity Products Metrics Survey 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

.” But, for others, it can be the loneliest and most stressful time of the year. According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” But preventing it all together should be the real goal.

Stress 10

Stress Team Survey Long-term 10

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

Yet, in the space of a month, telehealth has grown to the point that 90% of primary care appointments were being delivered virtually, with apps being developed to provide remote monitoring of people as they monitor and manage their symptoms of the virus. One of the core challenges identified in the report is the time required to train.

Skills 95

Skills Report Technology Long-term 95

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks. Quick analysis (like you’ve outlined) Live trial. Flash of inspiration.

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These are all the kinds of things that HR managers and talent developers obsess over, and also the sorts of questions people ask themselves when they’re deciding between job offers: Should I work at Company A, where I’d have better benefits but a worse commute, or Company B, which does important work but doesn’t pay very well?

Finance 16

Finance Career Video Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In 1968, Harvard Business School professor Howard Raiffa published a book called Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty. Let nature take its course, bailout without bankruptcy, and managed bankruptcy. There were three broad categories of alternatives.

Process 8

Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Investment banks are also required to have a more stable funding base, with enough liquid assets to survive longer periods of stress. They are subject to more rigorous stress testing by regulators and have to develop plans aimed at ensuring that they can recover from a crisis.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. How well-established are these courses?

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

’” In my firm’s work with and analysis of more than 1,000 senior executives around the world, we’ve found that this description is only half right. But his story illustrates the profound stress facing leaders who focus too heavily on their responsibilities to others. You and Your Team.

Long-term 8

Long-term Stress Simon Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Then, after making the decision, I explained it fully to all stakeholders to reduce the stress of change among those affected. Specifically, respondents were asked to indicate their degree of agreement on a five-point scale with 40 statements of various decision-making behaviors they used at different career decision points.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools. The Start Up Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

Management 10

Management Software BPM Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce. .”

Long-term 8

Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

Objective 10

Objective Safe Harbor Policies Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Instead, what you need to do is scenario analysis. There’s a bad scenario where it doesn’t work out and you end up losing money.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Numbers are crunched remorselessly, resulting in paralysis through analysis. This might be for core knowledge, such as computer coding skills on the part of the software entrepreneur seeking financing, or learning to cope with the high pace of activities that most entrepreneurs experience.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 10