HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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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. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

After he used the Trib’s own retirement plan as leverage to buy the company, Zell brought in as CEO a former morning zoo style radio shock jock named Randy Michaels. The example from the Trib is extreme in that it’s rare for management to codify bad behavior as official company policy.  Different people chose different options.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Include a press release approach both to business planning and communication.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Scrap your iron-clad five-year plan. To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. This plan will help you get through the year. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. I have seen some leaders who are great with the praise but are not sharp in handling the negative. Leadership is about care and compassion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

aren’t taught management skills in medical school. A popular way of bringing physicians up to speed is to elevate them into management roles and team them with business executives. Fair or not, they believe it’s harder for leaders without clinical expertise to see how cutting costs impacts quality of care.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

But in my interviews, I was surprised to find that people's inability to quit their current jobs had nothing to do with the perceived riskiness of their new professions, the fear of unemployment if job options fell through, or even how well they had defined their proposed new career step.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

A recent global ICEDR study revealed that leaders believe that the majority of women around the age of 30 leave because they are struggling to balance work and life or planning to have children, whereas men leave because of compensation. There is less of a need to segment and complicate talent strategies by gender.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

As the meeting progressed, it was clear that these Ivy-schooled individuals were slick, sharp, and well-structured. But landing a secure, high-paying job is not an excuse to knock the "misfits": the courageous few entrepreneurs who choose to risk their own careers, reputations, and financial security to improve the world for us all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. The payoff?

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The problem seemed not so much identifying what needed to be done as the lack of a plan for making the changes quickly enough. Rather, their biggest barrier by far (about 85% of the time) relates to the internal complexity of their organizations and the management of their energy against that.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But my experience as a consultant at a very large strategy firm whose clients are giant corporations had been that if someone admitted that he or she struggled with depression or mental illness, that would often be career suicide. Managers are comfortable with physical illnesses. Managing people'

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Open-book Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? Can it be resolved?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. They sold part of the theme park business, shut down adjacencies, and stopped planned expansions. Build a Re-Founding Team. Then they went deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

This age group experiences a sharp increase in ongoing stress, characterized by the most negative thoughts and the least positive emotions, compared to other age groups. Or, you go back to school in order to make a major career change. Short-Term Goals – How Do They Plan to Get There? What will happen? How will you feel?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? Can it be resolved?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Successful careers are important, but more so is leaving a legacy of significance.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 83

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As it turns out, Rob also needs a new briefcase, so they stop by a local upmarket leather shop, where the Goffees share their airline woes with the manager, Annetta. The open-plan office was noisy, highly interactive, and a little edgy. After their sharp exchange, they had devised a novel strategy for releasing a single from the album.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Martin (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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