Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This results in “title bloat” (e.g., “CFOs” that don’t manage investments and negotiate payer or supply contracts but merely supervise revenue cycle activities, do budgeting, etc.). To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Place ad in an unusual venue, attend a political events, support a new cultural organization, or even be friendly at the Health Club. It is like the company who commissions a color brochure but has no budget for writing, photographs, or design. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

One of the most surprising aspects of that work was that people would open up to me, an outsider, about all the elephants in the room — but they were too polite or embarrassed to call out the obvious issues or blame their peers inside their own organizations. I worked as a consultant for many years before becoming the CEO of Red Hat.

Construction 8

Construction Consultative Learning-by-Doing Human Resources 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. Our human resources department takes care of that. Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face. Often, sweeping generalizations involve making far-fetched excuses or scapegoating someone else.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Political fund raising. Without visioning, other functions (marketing, human resources, financial, production, quality control, public relations, etc.) The Strategic Plan comes off the shelf and alive into action by being relative to all levels of the organization: Resource. Sales or marketing support. Philosophy.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

But AI can also help support more complex decisions in key areas such as human resources, budgeting, marketing, capital allocation and even corporate strategy — long the bastion of bespoke consulting firms such as McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, and the major marketing agencies. ” and more complex questions.

Consultative 8

Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Whenever a company makes a purchase decision that involves a team of people, factors including self-interests, politics, and group dynamics will influence the final decision. Compared with their competitors, they have a much larger market share, top-of-the-line products, greater marketing budget and reach, and more company cachet.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If you are convinced you are in the wrong job at the right company, get to know people in other departments so that you can ask polite questions about whether people there are happy, how they ended up there, and whether there are positions that might better fit your interests and skills.

Short-term 8

Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Political animals rise in the corporate pecking order. Budgets are constantly cut and revised. Stars leave. Deadwood stays. External focus (customers) gives way to navel-gazing. Aspiration gives way to mediocrity. Cliques form and rivalries increase. Pessimism becomes the common cultural thread. Too many operational changes.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100