HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine. What do we mean by HR PUNKS?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. I think showing love is something that will really come back to you in the end, even in the business world. Interesting thoughts. Thanks for posting.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We often compare the typical experience of culture to operating a plane on autopilot. Organizations have standard ways of operating. Think of the shifts in the media industry that brought low leading magazines and newspapers. Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. Think Kodak.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An effective financial literacy program should clear concepts of finance and accounting in simple terms with examples that are relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Joe Knight is widely considered as one of the world’s most influential finance and business literacy leaders. First, share the numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. And perhaps failing to recognize that is whats really at the root of this great crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It’s much easier to have your reading material in one completely portable, digitally organized reader than it is to go old school and tote your books and magazines with you. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It could mimic pieces of Medtronic's approach, such as the diagnostic camps and a financing plan. And, of course, it would have to learn how to operate in India, a notoriously complex market.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 9, 2013

John Hay Whitney started the first venture capital firm, financed Gone With the Wind and Minute Maid orange juice, served as Eisenhower’s ambassador to Great Britain, and was one of America’s wealthiest men at midcentury. But when Time magazine put him on its cover in 1933, it was for playing polo.”Jock”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

As soon as news of the Amazon–Whole Foods deal crossed my Twitter feed, I dove into the archives of Fast Company, the magazine I cofounded with Alan Webber after both of us had served at HBR. In one of our very first issues, back in 1996, we did a deep dive into a strange, offbeat, little-known grocery operation based in Austin, Texas.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

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