HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

The interview also explores EY’s innovative talent management approach, leveraging AI for recruitment and lifelong learning opportunities. Henry discusses EY’s response to evolving workplace dynamics, including flexible work models and investments in emerging technologies.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A threat that has never been mentioned in all of the years the report has been published is the declining birth rate, yet this is a sufficient risk for Elon Musk to brand it the biggest threat to civilization at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit. Mature adults demonstrate considerable resilience,” the researchers say.

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Long-term Maturity Short-term Entrepreneur 81

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. Your success or failure can be quantified by such measurements as market share, financial ratios, brand awareness, new products and deadlines. I ’m an extremely competitive person. Live a culture of innovation.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We are living in a new era of technology and understanding and Pete has his finger on the pulse of how to relate/reach individuals. All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. His leadership is remarkable!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team. As an up-and-coming preparing for management, I'm working to grasp these core concepts. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. What about the risks that could affect the financial performance (or even the very survival) of the enterprise—risks like brand degradation or product relevance? What does maturity look like in practice?

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt While I agree with all your assertions, there is in fact quite a lot of overlap between emotions, conflict management, anger management, interpersonal communications, etc. I will be curating again, soon.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The questions I get from management about social applications are varied. How do you manage all this? How can we prove to management that all these social applications are paying off? Crucially, the right strategy here is not to put all the social efforts under one manager.

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Technology Management Forrester Maturity 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 180

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant.

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Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Right now, at this very minute, there are hundreds if not thousands of brands out there heightening your customers’ expectations. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Companies like Google are heightening expectations around data-driven personalization.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Time for a re-boot on how we manage and think about business.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Access to mature global markets.

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Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Welcome to the era of “conversational commerce,” the term for online business that’s powered by natural language technologies. Although the use of brands’ mobile apps has exploded since 2008, “brand app fatigue” is starting to settle in. Messaging apps, by contrast, have never been hotter.

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Company Brand Learning Curve Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

See also Rick Goings’s commitment at Tupperware Brands to increasing women’s economic empowerment in emerging economies as well as mature ones. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. Networks and communities spreading new norms and new forms of capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? It does more than sell; it tells a story that captivates our imaginations and connects us to a brand — and to others who share in the brand sentiment.

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. Once businesses refine their model as start-ups and move towards mature operations, we as shareholders want them to shift from exploration to efficiency. This was the core thesis of the first article in this series.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Marketing groups are splintered into communications, consumer marketing, brand marketing, and digital marketing units with no common thread in strategy and execution. Internal structure: Most marketing teams are organized by either functional expertise (such as social media marketing or marketing analytics) or brand.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as some people won’t want to hear this, “ help &# is not a dirty word. Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. So my question is this: Are you easy to help?

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Blog Brand Influence Open-book 415

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

So when it comes to new-product development, which function should have greater influence with the senior management team, R&D or marketing? Consumers found the new technology so much more cumbersome that Microsoft restored the button in Windows 8.1. Researchers have strong feelings about this. You need marketing’s input.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. Their operating model and governance are suited to the organization’s digital maturity, size and capability levels. Technology'

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Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

They have a defined brand and a fairly clear picture of market penetration, differentiators, and existing products and services. The ratio of current to former employees is also telling – evidence of high turnover may reveal something about a company’s management style or stability. Competition Information & technology Strategy'

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Competitive Intelligence Market Penetration Maturity Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies. courtesy of HLW International.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. You buy a company, invest in a brand, do R&D to meet that unmet need, expand into a new geography. And, invariably, you invest in assets.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

As Kevin McFarthing noted in a recent blog post , in more mature markets directive questions can provide useful input. Further, in some industries customers lack technological sophistication to know what is or is not feasible, limiting the usefulness of their guidance. In these circumstances it is tempting to rely on intuition.

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Audience Entrepreneur Maturity Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

” Meanwhile, many publishers have solid brand identities that are alluring to platforms. It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content.

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. Research points to the latter.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? The message is not about the messenger; it has nothing to do with messenger; it is however 100% about meeting the needs and the expectations of those you’re communicating with.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

To shed a little light on what it takes to manage this process, we asked a group of top CMOs and advertising executives — from Xerox, Leo Burnett USA, Cleveland Clinic, Adobe, and Nike — a question: If you could solve one challenge in the advertising business, what would it be? Therein lies the tension. This cliché is obsolete.or

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Advertising Marketing Storytelling Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And apparently the 130-year-old retailer has become so adept that it’s stopped giving away advice over the phone and started selling data management services under the B2B brand MetaScale. They found, as one might expect, that the teams with the most mature and open-minded members used conflict most productively.

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B2B Maturity Retail Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Over the next two years, this change in how sales people interact with customers will redefine what the product content will be, how the sales staff will use a new CRM platform to record visits online, and how new insights will be derived from these interactions across sales, marketing, and brand management — ultimately driving decisions.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale. Our research suggests that a startup’s path to maturity is not quite as definitive as simply asking the founders to leave.

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