Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

When McCord began her career in Human Resources at Netflix, she began working with Reed Hastings to identify the behaviors that they wanted to see become consistent practices and worked to instill the discipline of actually doing them. Great teams are not created with incentives, procedures, and perks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate. The result may be less innovation and a depletion of human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Incentives and pressure to inflate achievement of targets. Cross-cultural differences.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

According to a report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the average cost of replacing a single employee can be as high as $4,425. Also, ask about the candidates’ career paths and goals to see if they align with what your company has to offer. One of the main reasons why people go to work is to earn money.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. These are "people skills.". That means they are risk-averse by nature and on the lookout for threats.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Webb’s hardcore perspective poses an existential challenge to most organizations’ views of human resources. This links directly to his second theme around “getting the incentives right.” Incentives aligning and facilitating accountability improved the entire organization, not just the trainees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. public workforce-development system do. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The most frequently mentioned fears were losing their reputation, underachieving (even among seasoned executives), and dying, both literally and in their career, and how it inspires a fixation on status, appearing youthful, and making money. Incentive systems should discourage self-interested behavior.

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Innovation has to be a company-wide endeavor, supported from top to bottom by systems, structures, and a company culture that nurtures transformative ideas and products. Company incubators and innovation labs that are isolated from the rest of the organization tend to have limited success, because they are disconnected from a larger system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. We deliberately kept the monetary incentives close to zero in order to study the effects of evaluation and comparisons instead of money and rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This phenomenon is what I call the fissured workplace , the cracks upon which today’s economy largely rest, and it leaves so many without fair wages, a career path, or a safe work environment. Firms typically started outsourcing activities like payroll, publications, accounting, and human resources.

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