HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Because of negative stereotypes, several research studies have shown that older workers receive lower ratings in job applications, performance appraisals, and access to career development activities. Bret blogs about leadership, followership, and social media at his website Positive Organizational Behavior. Today 55 percent of the U.S.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” ” –Franklin P. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career. Field visits: We used to call them “ride alongs.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Many are stuck in their careers. Career planning Managing yourself' They’re looking for direction and support for the changes they long to make in the near future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In others, they lack the critical experiences or skills required to take the next step, such as an international assignment, high-risk project, or major P&L responsibility. But we also found that these traits are not synonymous with proactive career management. And they need to do so early in their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. I have seen them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It was an incredible leadership school for me. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

If everyone on the leadership team has an advanced degree and you don’t, it may be an uphill battle to convince them of your merits. Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L? Learning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit. As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

"I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. But it seems every time a leadership role opens up, women are not on the slate. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked. It would be easier, I was told.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Can't Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. It must drive decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Who has P&L authority? A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. It includes accountabilities. Clarity and simplicity are the watchwords here.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

For years I've been working on helping companies to see how work, home, community, and self (mind, body, and spirit) can be mutually reinforcing; this is the "four-way wins" approach I describe in Total Leadership. David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. But changing those norms isn't easy.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). It is a must-have for every HR and L&D pros’ library and toolkit. By Stephen R.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. “For many women it remains difficult to have it all: career, children, partner, and household. And sponsorship is critical to opening doors to these jobs.” “So why the lack of progress? There are no excuses.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

It is at times like these that executives who want to enter the CEO’s inner cabinet must be able to put their organizational leadership hat on and leave their unit leadership hat at the door. In my experience, a low intolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty derails more executive careers than a lack of technical competence.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. One of the patterns I see in the 360 data on leadership behaviors is that peers are typically the lowest rating group for any given executive. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

The stats below offer a startling glimpse into what work and leadership is like for women around the world. Taking a more in-depth examination of women and leadership, our September issue focuses on some of the complicated ways gender manifests itself in our workplaces. Leadership Qualities. They''re not all depressing.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. One said that some candidates look for “a genuine culture of care, which often comes across in the interview process”; a sign of such a culture is the “understanding that spouse and children have a place in a career.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Like it or not, most of us think about career success in terms of moving up the hierarchy. Look," he said, "I currently have 10,000 people reporting to me and responsibility for the largest P&L in the company. Most of us have grown up assuming that career success is vertical. It would be better if you just fired me.".

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Another well-known problem is that if you are a P&L leader in a publicly traded firm, you pay dearly for missing quarterly targets and don’t get dinged at all for failing to invest in the future. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. To read Rita’s complete biography, click here.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not.

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