HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this article, we look at what it means to lay off employees, the causes, what must be included in a layoff letter, and some sample layoff letter templates. We have compiled a few sample templates to help you out. Please keep up the hard work on your next career path. What does laying off employees mean?

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2024

CEOs and COOs may be well-placed to steer the business where the money is, but they’ll only find the company breaking down when the wheels fall off halfway towards their goals. Suppose they are looking for an opportunity to switch to another team to advance their careers, again. What do you look forward to most about work every day?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

If you’re looking to buy them for your team, CEO Reads offers some great quantity discounts, and we would be happy to customize with a personalized template. The full (and powerful) story of this woman’s journey to authenticity and the impact on her career is here. What does it mean to Win Well? How can I help spread the word?

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2015

To most of you the objective is to advance your career. Here’s your personal brand strategy template: Your Target Group: How They Currently View You: How You Want them to View You: Your Brand Benefit: Reason to believe the Benefit: Brand Character: To help you fill in the blanks, I’m going to include a sample.

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Brand Strategy How To Constraint 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

As I shared stats from my organization’s recent survey, the reporter passed along comments from a CEO he’d just interviewed: “Email interrupts me all day long. How you handle email can often determine the trajectory of your career—whether you piddle away your time or focus on your core work. I can’t focus on my core work. It’s 1:30.

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Survey Tactics Participative Report 221

Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

Here is just a small sample of how James’s insights have helped me in my career: “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”. As we progress through our careers, keeping a truly open mind becomes increasingly difficult. Call it the legacy question.

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Leadership Tactics Self-aware Short-term 169

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 10, 2016

The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Google relies on sample work tests in addition to structured interviews as it assesses candidates, for example.

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How To Diversity CFO Education 100

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 8, 2014

Be a bobble head and nod in agreement– after all, push-back could hurt your career. Karin Hurt is an experienced leader, speaker and writer, a former Fortune 15 executive and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders. Karin has graciously agreed to share with my readers a FREE sample chapter from her upcoming book.

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Incubator Teamwork Benchmarking Sample 252

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. CEOs who began their careers in prosperous times tend to use riskier financial strategies than CEOs who first entered the workforce in recessions. What might you have expected the future to hold?

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Ethics CEO Career Sample 8

Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2013

Office cliques can affect workplace culture in a variety of ways.according to nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder from May 14 to June 5, 2013, among a representative sample of nearly 3,000 full-time, private sector U.S. John Agno: When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2021

This was evident in research I wrote about a few years ago looking at the difficulties people have in moving from one career to another, and many of these hurdles are mental hurdles that while not insurmountable are nonetheless easier grappled with a degree of support. This is something the U.K. This is something the U.K.

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Skills Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Long-term 94

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. “Executive presence” was mentioned in several reviews as an improvement area, but without any specifics, Tom had no idea what the real issue was and how damaging it could be to his career. June Buck/Getty Images. We call these types of issues “pandas.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Research has found that superstar CEOs, those who win awards like “CEO of the year,” can earn an average of about $7.8 Can prestigious companies get away with paying their CEOs less? CEO salaries from ExecuComp, a data set on top executive compensation for all firms in the S&P 1500.

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CEO Discount Short-term Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. We found that female CEOs face a greater threat of shareholder activism than male CEOs.

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CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > In a new study , Glassdoor data scientist Morgan Smart and I looked at more than 5,000 job transitions from a sample of thousands of résumés shared by job seekers on Glassdoor from 2007 to 2016. Download a customizable version in Subscriber Exclusives. And that suggests an easy solution.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

The Leadership Moment was included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time , written by the business book experts at 800-CEO-READ, and listed as one of the 10 best leadership books on the Washington Post 's "Leadership Playlist." He is the author of The Leadership Moment, Investor Capitalism , and The Go Point , among other books.

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Leadership McKinsey Sample Download 129

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Rajesh Setty ‘s ideas flower on Why MANY Smart People Face a Mid-Career Dilemma and How You Can Avoid It. Sample the 30+ management and leadership articles posted this month. Chris Stowell at the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness finds fertile ground on Scorecards: Putting for Dough. Stumble it!

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 220

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. Career advancement must be approached with this same hunger for survival.

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Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

These early career experiences appear to have lasting negative consequences for later career success. Similar patterns emerge among people who reach the pinnacle of corporate life: CEOs. People who began their careers in prosperous times, on the other hand, were more likely to be plagued by regret, second-guessing, and what-ifs.

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Career Ethics CEO Class 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

These are reasonable questions — but if you want to use the events this month to advance your career, your primary question should be: How can I connect with the right people, in the right way? It’s not about sampling each appetizer. It’s not about hanging out with the same people you see at lunch everyday.

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Career Follow-up Open-book Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. The COOs in our sample had worked in the same company for 12 years, on average, before their appointment.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

The women in my sample were asked to think back on two defining career moments that best prepared them to advance. It might seem obvious, but the women in my sample had high ambitions to hold executive leadership roles with high status, power, and influence. How People Get Ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Specifically we studied whether or not board service increased an executive’s likelihood of receiving a promotion, becoming a CEO, and/or receiving a pay increase. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. It was an incredible leadership school for me. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

It includes other aspects such as: how much you enjoy your career, whether it provides fulfillment, how much flexibility you get and how much influence you have over what you do and when you do it. Some large sample surveys report that MBAs nationwide have an average starting salary of about $100K.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Here’s a sample quote: “In most (although not all) cases, the identified serial bully is a female whose objective is to demonstrate to the world what a wonderful, kind, caring, compassionate person she is. According to the site, attention seeking behaviours can actually be forms of bullying. "Cool" is a moving target.

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Absenteeism Handbook Stress Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

What are the costs of this, beyond stifling or ending the careers of thousands of people? Deutsche Bank , for example, forced CEO Oscar Wassermann and executive board member Theodor Frank to resign their positions by June 1, 1933. These effects persisted at least until the end of our sample period on manager characteristics in 1938.

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Price Policies Sample CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Evaluative information like work samples, personal representations, peer and manager reviews, shared content, and scores and badges are creating new signals of aptitude and different types of credentials. User profiles contain work samples and provide community generated indicators of status and skill.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

One of my clients reported to four CEOs in just eighteen months, another to three senior managers in nine months, and another to five directors in three years. With such inconsistencies in the upper ranks, is there anything you can do to stabilize your own career? Present to as many new (or interim) CEOs as possible.

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Sample Strategic Planning CEO Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I’m seeing a surprising new phenomenon when it comes to career arcs and transitions, with women happily and successfully working longer than their husbands. Not only did the female CEOs in the study report that they were the primary caregiver when their children were young, but that “their families took precedence over their careers.”

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Travel Career CEO Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The common factor in all their careers is adult supervision. The two Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hired on Eric Schmidt as CEO when it became clear their company's growth was outstripping the growth of their management capabilities. And while we're at it, let's include a third member of the club: Mark Zuckerberg.

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COO Sample CEO Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

CEO Jerry Yang was known for ignoring capital letters in his e-mails. Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, wrote in a blog post for HBR that he refuses to hire people who use poor grammar. Each professional had worked for no more than three employers over the first 10 years of his or her career. Even former Yahoo!

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Analysis Career Sample Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

Only 14% of the world´s 500 largest corporations by revenue, the Fortune Global 500 , are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one where the corporation is headquartered, as Herman Vantrappen and I reported this June in Fortune. Only 1 of the 96 Fortune Global 500 companies from the BRIC countries has a foreign CEO.

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Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The CEOs of both — John Noseworthy and Delos “Toby” Cosgrove — are highly skilled physicians. A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. Cleveland Clinic comes in second.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

First, because this sample includes a particularly successful (and therefore non-random) group of founders, we cannot generalize from it to conclude anything about entrepreneur age, or even VC-backed entrepreneur age, more broadly. CEOs and Presidents are 42 years old on average, with a median of 42. Entrepreneurship Tech industry'

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The consequences range from the distasteful to the disastrous: hurt feelings, lasting resentment from former colleagues, blame for harming the company, and — worst of all — a reputation for thoughtlessness that can damage a career. Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition.

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Execution Reputation Human Resources Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Not surprisingly, the most successful medical professors in my sample group — those with tenure, extensive research, and national awards — also tended to have the most instances of divorce and estrangement from children. These are tough questions to ask, not only at the beginning of your career, but throughout.

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