Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

You’ve probably encountered managers you admire more for their technical skills than for their actual leadership skills. In other words, organizations manage careers so that everyone “rises to the level of their incompetence.” And if so, how do organizations manage around the Peter Principle?

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Incentives Career Conflict of Interest Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Connecting to the Strategic Vision.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in. Our job as senior managers is not to prevent all forms of rule breaking. Innovation Managing people Strategy' An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

What if your manager makes it seem like you’re not a team player? To set the stage for a positive conversation, work out your manager’s perspective first. Her strategy was that by accruing the time quietly, she would be bulletproof when she told her manager, because, by the letter of the law, it was hers to take.

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Incubator Conflict of Interest Planning Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Since companies test their own products—an obvious conflict of interest—they naturally design clinical trials to maximize evidence that they are beneficial and minimize evidence they are harmful. It's so obvious, and employers think they are managing drug costs through their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Negotiation is a method for resolving conflicts of interest, not for adjudicating who is at fault. Most people, once they understand this, are willing to exchange concessions in order to satisfy their underlying interests. She can ultimately be trusted to act in her own interest. Stop making concessions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If a QIP is approved, physicians may claim Part IV MOC and continuing medical education (CME) credit; non-physician team members may claim CME credit. The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management. Here’s an example of a QIP submission.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But waiting until you’re calm, and framing how the decision is bad for the company — and not just you — will put you on a more productive path, says Jeanne Brett, director of Kellogg School of Management’s Dispute Resolution Research Center. What’s the larger issue for your team or organization?

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How To Conflict of Interest Politics Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Use an evaluation system that links the company’s strategic requirements with the prospects’ individual capacities and performance, with the latter focusing on their integrity and ethics, team building, execution excellence, shareholder return, and personal gravitas—and ability to work in the boardroom. Boards Leadership Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

But they can still play a useful role in managing your messages. An assistant can reduce the burden of email management in ways automated systems can’t, be they third-party plugins or rules and filters that you set up within your inbox. Now we all use email, and assistants are a seemingly rare commodity. The decision to delegate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

3 Obama claimed “it was the government’s policy to encourage the use of labor agreements to avoid misunderstandings about the cost of labor and to ensure that one contractor’s workforce problems during a project not delay other teams involved in the contract.” Statistically speaking, only 13.2 percent of the 2012 U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. While frying some fish, immunity lets other more culpable ones off the hook.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In recent weeks, we have seen almost daily reports surface of potential ethical conflicts in the White House, whether it’s possible conflicts of interest between the Trump family’s business ties and government priorities or allegations of collusion between campaign allies and Russian intelligence.

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