Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Greenleaf 166

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Now 23 years on from that all-important 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. We have a high turnover rate at our company and I wonder if having more training around what type of people to hire would help? The personality profile also has to match.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. During training sessions for new employees, Disney focuses first not on technical skills but on communicating the shared purpose — to create happiness. What Are the Elements of Corporate Purpose?

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. During training sessions for new employees, Disney focuses first not on technical skills but on communicating the shared purpose — to create happiness. Used to set priorities around core competencies.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy -winning technology's design are undeniably important, he says. But the essential breakthrough, Ferrucci asserts, is that Watson — like a dog, a dolphin, a killer whale or a high school apprentice — could be successfully trained.

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Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

In the meantime, spatial thinking, visualization, contemporary cartography, and the other core competencies of geographic education have never been more relevant or necessary. Which brings us back to the sheer lack of geographical training available. Design Information & technology Technology'

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Core Competence Information Technology Library Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Intel has created a way to measure its impact with its "Intel Teach" program, which has trained more than 8 million teachers in 60 countries and benefited from Intel's core competency in measurement for rapid prototyping. This is what they demand in their core business.".

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Spokespersons were not media-trained, nor media-friendly. Training, empowerment and team-building programs were cut and never reinstated.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

When I wrote the book Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration 25 years ago (!), I found technology central to the answers. The book was the first to explicitly examine how tools and technologies shape creative collaboration in science, business, and the arts. Technology remains an indispensable ingredient.

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Technology Creativity Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. But disruption is not always about technology. Confront Unwelcome News and Trends.

Retail 8

Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Information & technology Leadership Social media' IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media.

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? It creates option value.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Why did they want to revisit what was already a core competence? Over the years, despite a number of well-meaning efforts, the focus of senior managers had shifted, the original training had been forgotten, and many of the messages on the subject had become empty rhetoric.

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How To Core Competence Long-term Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. Since the 1997 pilot, more than 9000 academies now operate in 165 countries and have trained nearly one million students.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

People in the business world are increasingly turning their attention to mental training practices associated with mindfulness — and for good reason. Consider combining live, in-person or virtual training with apps for optimal behavior formation. The result is at times a frenetic way of working.

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Stress Agility Globalization Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models. When Christopher Lind worked at a software company, he led a team of eight people who were responsible for training the company''s sales force. If you''re at a loss, ask them for input.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The competition story revolves around digital technology. Sharing and replication of innovations (via analog technologies like corporate memos, procedures manuals, and training sessions) would be relatively slow and imperfect, and overall market share would change little from year to year. There’s Too Little Competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

But we were reluctant to relinquish control of something that is one of Zappo’s core competencies. Since the sale, we’ve learned from Amazon’s technology: We’ve started to track some metrics Amazon tracks, and we’re learning how it thinks about warehouse operations. Ours is more high-touch—we try to make a personal connection.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Nurses had spent more than 14,700 hours meticulously training the algorithm. The questions looming for large, nontech companies are: 1) What are the core competencies of my organization when size no longer matters? All this took time, money, and dedication. Deep learning.

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Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The nurse has real-time phone access to a geriatric care–trained nurse practitioner who, based on the nurse’s assessment, can order tests (including in-home imaging) and prescriptions and make treatment decisions. Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8