Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Same applies to the agility exhibited by Goldman Sachs in navigating the global financial crisis of 2008-09. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Northern Command.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

However, no matter where you are in your career or life, you have undoubtedly done something that has made an impact. Don’t outsource your success. In an era where outsourcing is very popular, everything from manufacturing jobs to administrative duties are being outsourced.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. He's the fictional heir to real-world entrepreneurs like Del Webb , who set out a half century ago to outsource America's elderly to a previously barren sun belt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. These days, the culprit preventing many professionals from identifying a clear career path at their company is simply that one no longer exists. We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. Palmisano reorganized IBM into a "globally integrated enterprise" focused on worldwide collaboration. His ingenious first step toward creating a collaborative culture was a massive, global collaboration. It is not about you.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 20, 2010

We get why organizations make these kinds of “staffing” moves – outsourcing supply teaching to experienced teachers is easy just as, in the corporate world, bringing in “interim” executives to fill key strategic executive gaps is easy. Interesting times ahead my friends. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that women’s household responsibilities are taking time away from their career development. Here are some steps women can start taking today to help move the clock — and their careers — forward: Know how you’re spending your time. hours and 7.8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Because management and professional services have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, Sally thought her job and location were reasonably safe. Sally (name has been changed) was laid off six months ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Early in my career I gathered some data for a client on cooking. Despite all the buzz about the growth of pre-prepped meal kits like Blue Apron, or the promise of Whole Foods under Amazon’s management, cooking itself is on a long, slow, steady decline. Nearly 15 years later I did a similar study for a different client.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choices. Train managers and supervisors to communicate openly, effectively, and frequently. Loosen up the notion of the career ladder.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

” Forty years later, the concept of sales operations or “sales ops” has become widely accepted as essential for effective sales management. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives. Can one person really handle all this?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Well-connected people have enormous power to drive change, as this recent article from Julie Battilana of Harvard Business School and Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto''s Rotman School of Management, makes clear. billion in revenues and 10,000 employees spread across more than 70 offices globally. The lesson?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. HCL has over 103,000 employees, who are distributed globally across the firm’s own delivery centers and client sites. They can become your virtual mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

In Brazil, many multinationals outsource the preliminary screening of trainees, with the requirement that candidates must speak English. By limiting hiring to those that show proficiency in English, multinationals are severely restricting career opportunities for the poor and thus ratifying a history of exclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” ” This may sound like odd advice to give MBA students. Where there once were jobs, in the gig economy there is now just work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For example, Brian McNamee of CSL Ltd made a series of global acquisitions to turn Australia’s small Commonwealth Serum Laboratories into the global leader in plasma products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Turn to manufacturing and note that supply chains first shifted from vertical to horizontal, in-house to global.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The implications for global education are huge, of course. But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. And that would be interesting enough.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

AWFUL roads and awful traffic," moans an IT manager in Bangalore. The traffic is a huge waste of time," grouses a Beijing-based senior executive for a global financial firm. The traffic is time-consuming and stressful. I am so much more productive on work-from-home days.". Best of all, the service is free.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Take Maaike, a newly appointed partner in a global consulting firm. ” Be strategic about what projects you take on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

as global hegemon. As for global corporations themselves, very few invested in upgrading their manufacturing plants and their employee skills in the way that German corporations have done through the 21st century. But if innovation is going to save us, we must understand why is has so far failed us. Now that game is over.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. “The most successful freelancers know how to use their network for all sorts of things, like outsourcing work when they have too much,” Horowitz explains.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A CEO wishing to improve the ratio may outsource low-paid jobs, hire more part-time than full-time workers, or invest in automation rather than labor. A snapshot measure of a worker’s current pay is a poor substitute for their career pay within the firm. Large-scale studies in both the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. Get the right help.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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