In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

And AB had all the synergies, efficiencies and clout that #2 and #3 could never match. Human Resources. Most people think that great advertsising is the number one KFS (key factor for success) in the American beer business. For AB it is not. The name of the game is distribution leverage. Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change. Be open and honest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently? Lear had gone into bankruptcy during the Great Recession. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Human resources'

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. Basically, trust produces efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. “That sounds terrific,” I said, thinking that matched my interests, “What function is that?” My 22-year-old self thought, How cool is that ?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Perhaps it's easier to start by discussing the pathologies of a dysfunctional Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation. Resist the temptation. How do you know you have the right person? Here are ten clues that it's time to replace him or her.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

It is unable to collect taxes fairly, thus imposing unreasonable tax burdens for the few who work and pay taxes; tax evasion is still rampant; and, perhaps more importantly, the excessive red tape, strong bias for incumbents, and weak competition authorities get in the way of the efficient functioning of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Their mandate: Come up with fresh ideas for making the notoriously expensive and time-consuming drug-development process more efficient.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. We grew faster than we thought we would.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Poking around online, I came across a pentagon layout in a Chinese factory that was more efficient than the one in use in Sialkot. Their number one answer: employee resistance. The first surprise was that few firms adopted the new die, despite indications that it was yielding more pentagons per sheet. We asked owners why not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability. People resist disrupting the status quo. So here's what you need to do: Stop working in the office. Offices and office hours once made good sense. I understand that change is hard.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating. Expected Results of an Institutional Review: Your service is efficient and excellent, by your standards and by the publics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Technical people hope the pilot effort will seamlessly interoperate with existing tech infrastructures and processes, while business folks look for efficiencies, better customer experience, and KPI alignment. More often than not, however, these tensions prove remarkably valuable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

That’s because cyber criminals are opportunists who seek the path of least resistance. Cost savings in combatting cyberattacks and increasing efficiencies. For example, a human resources database could be used to align the number of employees at a given location to the license data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

They have become such a deeply entrenched part of life at top schools that these companies and their recruiting practices have been referred by students and administrators as “the deluge,” “the onslaught,” and even “the path of least resistance.”

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