Leading Blog
MARCH 8, 2019
Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training. We were able to focus and work collaboratively toward our goals. Morale sunk, and our productivity did, too.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2015
The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2016
That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals. Only 14% of the companies we studied were in the active management category. Hardly an encouraging finding. The bad news?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2017
Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2013
But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2016
A third troubling aspect is that the goal of Tronc’s digital efforts seems more geared to collecting eyeballs rather than creating experiences. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. The truth is that Tronc is managing for metrics rather than for mission. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.
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