Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2011

Those disappointing findings called out by Branham were : 84% of survey respondents say that "disengaged employees" are one of the three biggest threats facing their business. Only 13% of C-suite executives believe that line managers and middle managers are "chiefly responsible" for staff engagement.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

All managers want to hire people with discipline, determination, and drive. The study by EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW surveyed more than 400 female executives in five countries (20% were U.S. Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. Who Owns Risk Management? NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver. BONUS BITS: Contingencies to Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. Who Owns Risk Management? NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver. BONUS BITS: Contingencies to Culture.

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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. But the similarities end there.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. The leaders we surveyed identified several factors contributing to high turnover.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas. A driver survey this year showed that Uber drivers are now less satisfied than Lyft drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. ” “But your engagement surveys—not to mention the anecdotal stories like Noelle’s—show that things are just getting worse,” Cam responded.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. Choose the right analytics leader.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Although women make up 40% of the global workforce , they hold only 24% of senior management roles around the world — a figure that has not changed significantly over the past decade. We recently conducted a study of more than 10,000 senior executives who were competing for top management jobs in the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. out of 10) on its customer satisfaction surveys. Will I get out of here without catching an infection?” They started with patient-first thinking. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And we surveyed over 2,000 individuals who do modern work inside of large enterprises. Every year over the last five years, respondents to this survey say that they spend only 40 percent of their time doing their real job. The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. ” His experience gibes with the findings of a new survey that PwC conducted on corporate renewable buying. Get early buy-in. ” Find the right locations for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. Fortunately, there is a way to talk about IT risk — and understand risk — in terms that make sense to every manager. If you''re like managers in most companies, you tend to have conversations about these four A''s in silos, if at all. Then listen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

A recent study (also from IBM) indicates that more than 70% of CMOs feel they are underprepared to manage the explosion of data and "lack true insight.". Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A study of CFO surveys shows that corporate financial professionals are way too sure of their ability to predict the future. Over the course of a decade, the CFOs were asked to state the range of one-year stock-market forecasts that they thought would lead them to be right 80% of the time. But do they?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

People who respond to your surveys probably differ in important ways from those who don't. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long. Don't do that!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. ” was a profound “sort of.”

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Dos and Don’ts for Conducting an Employee Engagement Survey Insights, Winter 2011. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. Three Ways to Actually Engage Your Employees HBR Blog Network, June 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Instead, managers found that employees shared fewer ideas with each other, and those ideas they did share were less creative.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

This is my plea for the “meeters&# of the world to break from the pack and start becoming “doers.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. cybersecurity) create two notable challenges for the modern board. times those who mentioned investors in the same manner.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.". And most people still back a free-market economy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We’ve been surveying workers for five years, and the response remains consistent: workers are so busy with distractions that they don’t have time to focus on their primary job, much less invent the future. This isn’t a new issue, either. Why do we let this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. “Your manager needs for other people to not see your schedule as a four-day week.” Reflect on your motivations. Every other Friday?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

One survey of IT decision makers found that the average cost of a successful spear-phishing attack is $1.6 A cybercriminal might impersonate a CFO or CEO, and then send an email to accounts payable asking for a wire transfer, or to HR requesting a dump of employee tax information. Security is a business problem more than an IT problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Uncertainty Is on the Rise (CFO). Uncertainty about the economy is on the rise among private companies, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey says. Only half the companies surveyed were optimistic about the economy, down from 60%. IT'S EUROPE'S FAULT. NO, NOT THOSE RULES. The Rules for Leading Creatives (Mercer).

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