Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. Managerial stock options got a bad rep in the early 2000s with the revelation of massive abuses (frequent repricing of options) and manipulations (backdating) of options by managers. From the government?

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea?

Diversity 11

Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In most organizations without professional risk managers, the amount of risk individuals are allowed to take is set informally and evaluated by tradition. There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. Risk managers employ a variety of tools to align individual risk decisions to organization-wide risk appetite.

Risk Management 12

Risk Management Proposal Committee Exit Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. Blockbuster capital raises will always occur in unusual situations (e.g., 3 Defenses of Large ICOs. private briefings of product road maps).

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But managers still seem to be having the same kinds of business arguments and debates — except with much better data and analytics. We don’t do the analytics or business intelligence stuff until management identifies the behaviors we want to change or influence,” says one financial services CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Information Technology Consensus Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Deming insisted that companies, "Eliminate management by objective." Sears' Chairman at the time, Ed Brennan, acknowledged that the stretch goal gave employees a powerful incentive to deceive customers. In my opinion, there can be no such debate over the lack of usefulness of stretch goals. Here's why.

Goal 15

Goal Metrics Deming Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem. The problem is that everyone can have a different view of the meaning of getting and staying healthy. One subgroup's innovation is another subgroup's loss of control.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. Cisco managers will no doubt let us know in due course. Massive failures abound in the business world.

CIO 15

CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness. But only 8% of their customers agree.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite, all the rhetoric about holacracy and “ flatarchies ”, the average respondent works in an organization that has more than 6 management layers. In large organizations (more than 5,000 employees) front line employees are buried under 8 or more layers of management. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The two deputy general managers were both sticking to their guns and the atmosphere was intense. Unwilling to speak to Mr. Lei, the Chinese deputy GM he disagreed with, he looked at Mr. Lu, the General Manager. A typical Chinese boss, Lu strongly believed in the value of harmony and consensus. It was a face-off yet again.

Workshop 14

Workshop Stress Emotional Intelligence Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Accept — and Actively Manage — Conflict. One group’s accountable for managing costs, for example, and another group’s responsible for growing market share. If not, at least they have a shared definition of the problem and some possible solutions to take to the next level of management.

Project 10

Project Consensus Learning-by-Doing Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. Consider that when there are 500 of us in some setting all pursuing our own agendas, it's very difficult to get a consensus on anything. except sometimes).

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Managers in the latter category don’t give tough feedback, shy away from going to bat for their teams, and give in too easily to demands. Working for a manager who is conflict-averse can have deleterious effects on your performance and your career. All the managers I’ve talked to say they’d welcome that level of initiative,” he says.

Case Study 10

Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Companies with rigorous annual-planning processes or ones with very deliberate, consensus-based decision mechanisms will struggle to truly embrace the lean start-up approach because it will run counter to many of these systems.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The HERO report is a self-described “consensus” document, representing “countless hours of research and discussions by more than 60 members of both organizations and many outside experts.” PMPM, although that excludes incentives, consulting fees, internal staff costs, extra medical expenses, and several other items.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. So managers shouldn't make assumptions that foreign governments choose their favorites in the same way.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

In the California Civic Innovation Project' s (CCIP) recent survey of city managers and county administrators in California, we found that webinars attempting to provide information about innovation in local government are not as effective as many other techniques. Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery.

Webinar 8

Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

When he managed to beat a reform-minded opponent by just 243 votes (four of which cast by ghost-voters purporting to live at the address of Bauler`s own tavern) he made a declaration that still lives today: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week. So what’s the holdup?

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

These results have important implications for management: if we want an engaged workforce, money is clearly not the answer. The results highlighted consistent negative effects of incentives — from marshmallows to dollars — on intrinsic motivation. Gallup''s findings are based on 1.4 Compensation Motivation'

Motivation 9

Motivation Review Comparison Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. Consensus Protocols and Access Permissions in Public vs. Private Blockchains. by solving the cryptographic puzzle). Security Starts with Network Architecture.

Consensus 9

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 My sense is that a consensus emerged from the hearings that Apple was not doing anything illegal. Claims of tax evasion are much more significant as they cross the line, and it appears that a consensus emerged that this was not the case with Apple.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. CEOs routinely go to the microphones to apologize or make excuses for missing the analysts' consensus earnings estimates — even if their real results are substantially up.

CEO 14

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2016

And after all that research and with all the different clashing views, the general consensus to this finding is that this generation of young people is unlike anything we’ve seen before. For years experts have been trying to understand millennials, to find out what makes them tick, and what drives them to want to do great work. Team Dynamics.

Development 180

Development Webinar Leadership Motivation 180

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”. Transactional Leadership Philosophy This is where individual goal setting comes in and there are incentives for team members to achieve them. It influences how you move through the world and how you encourage others to do the same.

Development 52

Development Leadership Consensus Leadership Styles 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

And finally, the blockchain spreadsheet has a mechanism—referred to as a consensus algorithm—that determines what is placed in the spreadsheet by mutual agreement among its users. This provides a high level of confidence that the data hasn’t been tampered with. Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Even in an era of bitter partisanship, there’s consensus that the U.S. multinationals like GE have managed to pay less than nothing some years in federal corporate income taxes. This is the question of tax “incidence,” and in the case of corporate taxes there’s no real consensus. The maximum U.S.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Consensus Policies Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In today’s hyper-connected world, the kind of leaders who climbed the corporate ladder with a “command and control” style of management can have a hard time adjusting to today’s new workplace realities. Clare Kemp is Senior Campaign Manager for Northern Europe at Citrix. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

Short-term 8

Short-term Diversity Tips Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

They went deep into three international firms with reputations for excellence – one a law firm, one a public accounting firm, one a management consultancy – conducting over 100 face-to-face interviews with people working within them. The leaders in these firms, they discovered, are characterized by three traits.

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies. This shift is undermining the liberal “Washington Consensus” that has guided policy making since the 1990s. Donald Trump won the U.S. And such efforts should be advertised.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9