Strategy Driven

APRIL 26, 2019

It’s easy to start out as a solo practitioner and build a company as the skills from one’s career are directly transferrable, and overhead is quite low. Employees now participate in company profits, which can be significant financially, and the owner gets partial or full liquidity.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 27, 2010

Fast Friday with Chris von Baeyer of the Ariel Group → Diary of a mid-career job seeker: 9, 800, 20, 10, 5, 2, 3, 1 Posted on May 27, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 1 Comment Fans of LOST will no doubt recognize the significance numbers can play in shaping lives. with a major bank! Skip to content Home Welcome! Bookmark the permalink.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

All interesting stuff, and easy to jump on a soapbox about, but, the quote that caught my eye came from Ed Clark, President & CEO of TD Bank Financial Group. So, when Clark is quoted as predicting that a woman will eventually head up a bank… in about TWENTY years time, I did a double take. And, that’s my rant for today.

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?, and Garanti) under the Garanti brand.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? We’ve also made development conversations a point of emphasis, as an important way to help employees identify, explore and connect with learning opportunities as they navigate their career journey at Mastercard. There are no short-cuts in management.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

Great salespeople accept every lemon thrown at them by management, customers, and accounting – and use those lemons to open up a lemonade stand. Every time a great salesperson makes a sale, it remains in their self-confidence memory bank and can be called upon for positive energy in any situation. Looking for a Career, Not a Job.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2023

A wide range In a recent article , I argued that such investments should not only be in high-end skills, such as coding or cybersecurity, but also in basic digital skills to allow people to participate in modern society. The report found that the single biggest predictor of later participation in education is earlier participation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

I couldn't help but think that Carol was setting herself up for disappointment and sabotaging her own career with an unrealistic plan to scramble up the investment banking industry ladder. "If John, a user-experience designer, spoke fast and looked on edge as he described his four-week career "vision" to me. The upshot?

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Context is critical… explaining the “why&# behind decisions is crucial to helping organizations manage change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Graduate school is a natural place to study this, as many students are both investing in their professional careers and looking for a long-term partner. A recent study shows that, after just two years on the job, women's aspirations and confidence to reach senior management plummet compared to men's. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” When Latinos repress who they are in order to rise into management, incoming or up-and-coming Latino talent is motivated to look elsewhere for employment. As one Latino focus group participant said, “I look up, see no one like myself, and have to wonder if there is a future here for me.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Barclays Bank PLC and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are great examples. Participants work full-time on their day-jobs, but over a 6-month period they attend workshops and get expert coaching on how to develop their proposition. Time and money are limited so participants learn to enlist peers and even bosses as volunteers.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe we need to send a team of management consultants over to chat with Harold Gerstel (aka Harold the Jewelry buyer) to see what he’s putting in the water over at his little shop. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by Chevron, NUMI, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. and the state, counties and cities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vincent Siciliano, CEO of California-based New Resource Bank , was brought in to turn things around and restore the bank’s founding mission, which is to “serve values-driven businesses and nonprofits that are building a more sustainable world.” A year later, the bank sent out another employee survey.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. And most programs have no positive effect at all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition. Sourcing for Commitment. Screening In for Aptitude.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

To the contrary: much more often than not, leadership development programs are evaluated according to only one, subjective measure: whether or not participants were satisfied with the experience. It let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out. BONUS BITS: Crash Courses. 10 Minutes on Global Talent Mobility (PwC).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

To participate in a microfinance campaign, the village had to form a Self Help Group (SHG) of about 20 people, with each member contributing a certain amount of money every month. The bank (in this case Indian Bank ) would then loan a matching amount, bringing the available funds to $400.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Perhaps it’s a matter of New Year’s resolutions, or a reaction to seeing their friends and colleagues make big career changes each January. Depending on the skill, you might participate in a collaborative project at work, for instance, or set up your own project on a small scale at home. Learning is a career-long process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Our advice therefore can’t boil down to a clear “avoid careers in a, b, and c” or “apply for jobs x, y, or z.” But compliance with regulations isn’t only demanded of banks. ” And yet, we have to admit that there are some knowledge-work jobs that will simply succumb to the rise of the robots.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. So what does it take to attract these students to pursue careers with a focus on social impact?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Today's garota de Ipanema , however, is more likely to be carving out a career than prowling the playa. When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

Yet, some of us still manage to muck it up. On meeting them I began to realize why I might have been chosen to participate. They were all rather small and I, also being rather small, seemed to be the only bank representative who could look them straight in the eye without having to sit down. The table was beautifully set.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

And The Saint Paul Foundation filled financing gaps, using loans, loan guarantees and even equity investments — investments commonly associated with banks or other private investors, but likely too risky for traditional lenders until there was a more proven track record. Change management Collaboration Government'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Social enterprises and nonprofits increasingly recognize the need to adopt management disciplines used successfully in the for-profit world. Participants must have at least two years of work experience, though some have had as much as 15. Build Your Bench Strength Without Breaking the Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

If you've spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership off-sites, you've probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. At Umpqua Bank, Ray Davis and his colleagues have devised a retail experience that appeals to all five human senses. What legacy did you leave?

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Company Brand Banking Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career. Each rule is adapted from a quote from a participant in the discussion. There is an old career maxim : "It''s not who you know, it''s who knows you." Network your brains out.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

It means not only delivering tough messages personally but staying around to respond to difficult questions and participating in the process of making hard and sometimes upsetting transitions. The team is working as an extension o the manager’s authority and responsibility. There are no doubt countless others.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Work with your colleagues to see if you can participate in different meetings or take more ownership of client relations. Meeting new people committed to their careers and explaining your own goals and passions to them can help renew your sense of mission and expose you to aspects of your job that you may not have previously appreciated.

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