HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. Leadership is about telling the truth with courage, candor, honesty… and empathy. It has become more important to “do things right&# rather than to “do the right things.&#

Politics 311

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 311

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Start a Business. It might even be time to step outside of the norm and known of corporate life and start a business.

Conference 218

Conference Mentor Participative Brainstorming 218

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Mike Cardus

APRIL 14, 2011

These misconceptions have arisen from the observation of how people behave, understandably, within badly flawed managerial leadership systems.”. Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable.

System 157

System Commitment Motivation Incentives 157

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

To quote The Economist “consumer trust is the basis of all brand values, and therefore brands have an immense incentive to retain it”. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. Why is this so important?

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. That is the question.

Blog 318

Blog Metrics Brand CEO 318

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management.

Resources 50

Resources CFO ROI Risk Management 50

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 17, 2014

Hams : Leadership must create the environment for them to do this, I believe. They can do it by utilizing the core principals of Ownership Thinking: The Right Education : Teaching employees the fundamentals of business and finance, how their company makes money, and how they add (or take away) value. What is the best thing they can do?

Incentives 62

Incentives Environment Learning-by-Doing Finance 62

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Hams : Leadership must create the environment for them to do this, I believe. They can do it by utilizing the core principals of Ownership Thinking: The Right Education : Teaching employees the fundamentals of business and finance, how their company makes money, and how they add (or take away) value. What is the best thing they can do?

Incentives 56

Incentives Environment Learning-by-Doing Finance 56

Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What if service people were given incentives for the “yes” answers they gave to customers and were docked pay for their “no” answers? Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” I guarantee they’d find ways to say “yes” more often. Yes, I can change that for you.” “Yes, Yes, I can add that to your order.”

Press Release 170

Press Release Discount PR Compliance 170

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 11, 2012

Hams : Leadership must create the environment for them to do this, I believe. They can do it by utilizing the core principals of Ownership Thinking: The Right Education : Teaching employees the fundamentals of business and finance, how their company makes money, and how they add (or take away) value. What is the best thing they can do?

Incentives 71

Incentives Environment Learning-by-Doing Finance 71

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Provide leadership. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Methodology : You do have a choice…Moreover most successful pricing models offer a variety of options.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 308

Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

If possible, provide some financial incentive like a small hourly rate or commission for work well-done. Make sure you say in your ad description what they need to be successful with you (eg – a computer with internet access, a nice phone voice, computer skills, etc.). I have used www.internhere.com to post my request.

Press Release 160

Press Release Parcell Discount PR 160

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

Motivation 59

Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Set clear policies.

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

family finances between 2007 and 2010 depicts declines across the board, including a 25% drop in net worth for households under age 34 and a 33% drop for those between 55 and 64. MIT Sloan Management Review). IT managers eat too much, work too much, and sleep too little. It’s tough to be stuck in the middle.

Survey 22

Survey Incentives Tools Finance 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

” Forty years later, the concept of sales operations or “sales ops” has become widely accepted as essential for effective sales management. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. The payoff from linking incentives to customer feedback can be significant. I recently ran into a company that based incentives on scores determined from as few as 11 respondents. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., Ask Solyndra.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

family finances between 2007 and 2010 depicts declines across the board, including a 25% drop in net worth for households under age 34 and a 33% drop for those between 55 and 64. MIT Sloan Management Review). IT managers eat too much, work too much, and sleep too little. It’s tough to be stuck in the middle.

Survey 12

Survey Incentives Tools Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives. But where do incentives come from?

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. Managers love to reorganize at almost every level. Do your people need a wake-up call?

Sports 13

Sports Cost Incentives Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” It’s hard for employees to feel like they are doing more than managing numbers when they, too, are treated like numbers to be optimized. Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The thing he created in 1974 was Vanguard , now the world’s third-biggest manager of other people’s money , with more than $2.2 In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. The Wellington Fund and the Windsor Fund still had their own boards, which were separate from Wellington Management and elected by investors in the funds.

Finance 8

Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. These salespeople earned lucrative commissions on sales to current customers and had little incentive to hunt for new customers. As sales took off, management continued to "share the wealth." Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Manufacturing produces it.

Company 14

Company Market Penetration Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Leadership recognized that business units and functions had effectively been allowed to ignore the rest of the enterprise. The design was simple, clever and cheap: top management would recognize and reward people who demonstrated an ability to cross-functionally get real value from their colleagues and cohorts. It worked well.

Incentives 8

Incentives Tools Benchmarking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Their life anchors are their identification with an institution of great power; influence over individuals, policies, finances, and the community; and constant affirmation of their importance as individuals and of their role as leaders. This makes them extremely defensive and provides another incentive not to retire.

CEO 8

CEO Execution Policies Power 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When there’s stacked ranking, people who are A players typically decline to collaborate with other top performers, for fear their ranking and incentive compensation will suffer. over the past 20 years: until 2006, its finances were shaky, and it was losing about a point of market share every year. The difference was leadership.

Team 8

Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Put them together and they can design solutions that align the incentives of a wide range of actors to solve our toughest challenges in healthcare, education, economic development, and the environment. As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The people reporting to him all agreed that he had provided outstanding leadership in the company’s last crisis; his refusal to bow to adversity and his ability to rally people behind him had been truly remarkable. . Apparently John had been reckless with his personal finances and had been involved in numerous affairs.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Charisma Crisis Wilde 8