HR Digest
APRIL 30, 2024
CEOs and COOs may be well-placed to steer the business where the money is, but they’ll only find the company breaking down when the wheels fall off halfway towards their goals. You should also remind the employee that these interviews are not part of their own performance review and will not reflect how they are evaluated.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 2, 2017
Over the past year, we hosted current or former leaders from each of these retailers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and all four talked about a corporate culture of setting high expectations and creating conditions that encourage employees to innovate. For Boyan, the key is giving real power to store managers and partners.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 15, 2015
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called the deck the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. Managing Yourself Book. In many cases, organizations that make the switch successfully also make sure that managers get excited when employees take their days off.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Although talented and competent, he allowed himself to enter a negative cycle of activity after being hired into a large consumer goods company as the COO, and the presumptive successor to the CEO, who planned to retire in 24 months. Greg rolled up his sleeves and worked harder than he ever had, pushing the organization and himself.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
After working with HR to narrow down the list of candidates, she had two finalists, both internal: Molly Ashworth, a brand manager on her team in the cleaning division, and Ed Yu, a rising star from BBI’s beauty division. As the COO made another well-deserved toast to Anne, Aliyah thought back to her interviews with Ed and Molly.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2014
It’s especially difficult if you’re not the one calling the shots (most managers don’t set their own compensation budgets). Whether it’s your decision or not, one thing is certain: it’s a critical part of a manager’s job to have frank and open discussions with employees about pay. What the experts say. Prepare for the conversation.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2018
The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.
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