In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Today, I judged 3-minute speeches by my daughter’s Grade 4 class of 9-year olds. Diversity is the world’s engine of enlightenment. Human Resources. A Lesson from Nine-Year Olds. by John • February 16, 2011 • Life • 1 Comment. These kids taught me a lot about life. Here are a few clues as to why: 1.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Conduct classes in cake decorating, flower arranging, jewelry-making, gardening, automobile maintenance, carpentry, photography, or whatever your expertise happens to be.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

Use that time to get new employees excited and introduce them to the people who will be on their team and others in their start class. These talent makers – whether they’re the CEO, the head of sales, or the head of engineering – have three basic responsibilities. Build an intentional plan to figure out who does what.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. Now go optimize your talent — it’s the engine that drives strategy execution. He is a thought leader in human resources, employee engagement, and fulfillment and author of Fulfilled! The same holds for great leadership skills.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I knew about Deming, I had read part of Out of the Crisis during my university classes, so I started to think he was exactly what I was looking for. They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. That engineer called back the next day: “I fixed it, Dad. Did you see that?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

For instance, the World Health Organization classifies shift work as a Class 2A carcinogen, due to the rates of breast cancer among women shift workers.). At the beginning, our reporters, editors, and engineers were reluctant to use them, afraid that people might think they were shirking their duties. Twenty-five percent of large U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So I’m thinking most of you are from a class, what class is it again Steve? We’ll send you to class and teach you how to be a manager. Welcome to first class, Ben. Send them to another management class? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So I’m thinking most of you are from a class, what class is it again Steve? We’ll send you to class and teach you how to be a manager. Welcome to first class, Ben. Send them to another management class? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This week, approximately 9,000 current and former female employees of KPMG were invited to join a class-action lawsuit against the firm alleging they were paid less than their male counterparts, in violation of the U.S. Diversity Gender Human resources' Equal Pay Act.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. One early evening a few weeks ago I went for a walk in the streets of Vienna.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

World-Class Challenging/Challenged Autonomous Employee. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.” It feels like a living, breathing thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

If you're not going to fly coach class from San Francisco to Mumbai, don't ask them to either. According to Michael Lopp , author of Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager , the three most important words during the recruitment process is "We want you." Celebrate success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Citrix was eight months into its journey of building a design practice when three General Managers and I returned from Stanford University's Customer Focused Innovation class. Much of the class was spent in the d.school — a large, open, collaborative design space — and the benefits of this environment were immediately obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

dropping “Black” when listing membership in the “Black Engineering Students’ Association”). Humans have limited cognitive capacity and naturally rely on shortcuts, so why not only provide the information relevant to the hiring decision? The main areas where this whitening occurred were with names (e.g.,

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