The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Digital technologies were supposed to help provide people with the freedom from 9-5, giving us the autonomy to not only work when we want, but where we want. As various digital and mobile technologies have entered the workplace at scale, there has been a sense that this vision has not really been met.

Management 91

Management Proposal Technology Long-term 91

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Moreover, experts say employee engagement is doubly important in times of economic recession, uncertainty or boom, because this is when the human element differentiates those who fail, survive or thrive. Skill Set Development. Results range from happier customers to higher profits and stock prices, to lower health care costs.

Health Care 187

Health Care Education Brand Discount 187

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Nuclear Winter - Does the uncertainty of the current economic climate still have you hunkered down, playing it safe, and hoping for the return of more prosperous days?  Enjoy! .

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.  I have selected five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to get your work week off to a great start. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.  Enjoy!

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Blog Human Resources McCarthy Talent Management 133

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Why You Should Check it Out:   I choose to recommend this resource today because I feel everyone could use a little more happiness in their lives. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Project Human Resources Blog Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Fear.less can help. 

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Human Resources Newsletter Blog Welch 100

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak. With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. Edited excerpts of our conversation follow: Why is flexibility so important?

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Flextime ROI Advice Human Capital 115

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In light of today's economic volatility and uncertainty every aspect of business is being re-examined for its value in creating and sustaining profitable growth. I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me.

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Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. It''s about whether you''re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. And remaining steadfast, grounded, and measured in the face of uncertainty. But its European division was struggling.

Leadership 11

Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. For the gainfully underemployed, everyday is BYOD; their technologies are becoming their toolkits. Economy Hiring Human resources' Have people been commoditized? Of course not.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. These are just a few examples.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Try HR Retrospectives.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Business development. Businesses of all sizes are besieged with opportunities, competing information sources and large amounts of uncertainty. Executives are not fully prepared to handle challenges of the moment, much less to begin developing Big Picture thinking. Develop a support system of friends and colleagues.

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Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Those who see the world probabilistically seem to better navigate volatile environments because they are wired to embrace uncertainty. The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are.

Uncertainty 12

Uncertainty Tversky Kahneman Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

"There are a lot of informal negotiations that go on with supervisors," agrees Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School and the author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty. I think that first year of development and bonding is crucial," he says. Case study #1 — Lead the way.

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How To Policies Short-term Quinn 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Great data scientists conduct such analyses to develop a wider perspective. Take a hard look, in person.

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Osborne Politics Information Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Exponential technology change. Organizations and workers balance long-term bets and flexibility under uncertainty by engaging automation to adapt to frequent changes and rapid skills obsolescence. Today, turbo-charged.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Few have developed the understanding that the bark is merely the outermost layer of a tree. To begin, our highly interconnected and global economy means that seemingly unrelated developments can affect each other. How many real estate professionals in Miami are closely watching Chinese economic developments? Why's that?

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. Yet, in those arenas where VUCA-like uncertainty is pivotal to your strategic success, using predictive analytics to diversify your talent options may be wiser than using predictive analytics to bet big on one future.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8