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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

People are so entrenched in the do more paradigm that they struggle to kill their darlings , dump all of those exciting initiatives, and sacred cows, and resist adding more features to a product. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. This journey isn’t an easy one. Sure, there will be a fallout.

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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

Diversity and equal opportunity are a compulsory part of any company’s human resource plan. But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Aerospace Engineer.

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Is Hyperfocus Leading You to Poor Choices?

CO2

The board and CEO of his company were so hyperfocused on keeping inventory low for the sake of efficiency that they didn’t have enough engines available for all their private jets. They wound up having to explain to a high-profile client why his jet had no engine and would, therefore, not be able to take him on his three-week vacation.

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Five Jobs Made More Effective With Change Management

Change Starts Here

Human Resources. As the designated “people people” in most organizations, human resources professionals are often seen as responsible for organizational features like culture, employee satisfaction, and employee performance. Process Improvement.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. Engineered to Win.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

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. It was U-shaped. It looked like a cross-section of a bathtub.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. Frontline caregivers often react to new data-collecting technologies with caution and resistance. and Patricia E.