HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Think weekly, not quarterly.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

They are the members of the AMA’s Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, “one of the most powerful committees in America that you’ve never heard of,” says Washington Monthly editor Haley Sweetland Edwards. And you can have a successful career even after you decline a promotion or other type of advancement.

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Committee Content Price Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

For instance, CEOs might have come from the advertising or marketing side of the company, so they may be very well the best person to put together a new ad campaign, in terms of skill set. A lot of the same issues continue to be there; the crucial difference is technology. And technology is both a big positive and a big negative.

Execution 11

Execution Productivity Products CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

. “After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. Meg is a freelance writer, blogger, and children’s book author and merchandiser, and she owns her own marketing and PR consultancy.

PR 8

PR Long-term Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. When You’re Innovating, Think Inside the Box.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. It’s true of all commodity markets. Fear beats greed.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 291