HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2023

Here are some steps to follow when firing an employee: 1. Follow Up: Follow up with the employee after the termination to ensure they have access to the necessary resources and support. Ensure that the company’s policies and procedures are followed consistently. Be empathetic and acknowledge their emotions.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

With a sinking feeling, leaders watch a few organizations struggling up the cultural change road far above. Some organizations are confused and begin following the programs route without even realizing it. But soon, the pavement turns into a dirt track. This starts to get soft and muddy. The road empties into a bog.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Editions to follow include: The Path to Coherence , part 2. Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Quiet often the strategy changes, people are expected to align to new strategy, work differently, teams get split up or merged and priorities change. Tuning hierarchy and structure of the organization for better outcomes is just one part.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

.” They concluded that “structural levers” like management processes and systems were most effective when they followed and supported effective leadership behaviors. Our line up of experts and panelists will be addressing many of these organizational capability issues. on April 18 in Toronto.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Providers still make the bulk of the decisions, and patients dutifully follow instructions.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. Researchers have only recently given serious consideration to the topics of followers and followership.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work. ” If You Don’t Change Where You’re Headed, You’ll End up There Some change and improvement efforts have been hugely successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Success in a sales force requires having strong talent up and down the organization. An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. Consider two examples. He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Again, it took more than three years to undo the damage.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 3, 2013

My technology services company The Walker Group, was strong and growing. Why not have a business that declared up front that it is about making a positive difference in the world? I turned my traditional technology services firm into a social enterprise. In 2007 she completely restructured Walker as a Social Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

These sorts of analyses are helping EY, where some of us work, by working with Microsoft Workplace Analytics to help clients to predict the likelihood of retaining key talent following an acquisition and to develop strategies to maximize retention. An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. No matter the job, everyone ended up with a lot more work. Or, should I…?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A small but trendy razor club with a hip logo, Harry’s, attracts more Instagram followers and product subscriptions through its website than a fully stocked Gillette aisle in a supermarket ever could. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

And now I have new research to back that up. In a new follow-up study , we explored how to short-circuit the debilitating effects on a team of a leader describing negative events, such as a potential restructuring or poor sales. .” “That sounds like a terrible idea,” I said (gently). Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase. The response was disappointing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. Take Rohit Kumar, the principal and leader of National Tax Policy Services at PWC, where Adam works.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Were I advising aspiring top-tier universities — or their students on what they should expect from their high-priced education — the following classes would represent excellent starting points for fundamental curricular reform. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. When this occurs, it’s important to let employees know you are committed to communicating openly and transparently, and will follow-up as soon as you know more.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Let the phrase “say more about that” weave its magic and then follow that thread as far as it goes. But we supplemented their accounts with first-person perspectives obtained directly from customers, along with news coverage about the disease outbreaks that their technology had helped to stem. Trust but verify.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The corporate version of these decisions can be fixed up without much trouble. The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. Follow him on Twitter (@mauriceewing). Putting yourself at the center of too many big decisions may increase risks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. It simply means that Western governments need to engage in substantive negotiations over the restructuring of the global economic agenda at a minimum, and possibly agree to significant reform of institutions as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of incumbents are being compelled to adopt these technologies to stay competitive, even as cost and productivity pressures become acute. Consider the newspaper-publishing industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. There’s a lot of variety in how these umbrella agreements are structured and implemented.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Most corporations generate 80% to 90% of their profits from fewer than 20% of the brands they sell and many promising start-ups can fail to generate a profit for several years. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But they can also give competitors an up-close-and-personal view into your employees' ideas and your company's product plans, as well as its relationships with customers or clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

followed by, "But why?". Restructure, reorganize, slash and burn. This year, Samsung alone announced 75 new products. I wasn't there, but rather monitored announcements from a distance. And each one met a similar response: "What?" You probably know the leaden, efficiency-seeking score: do it cheaper, faster, bigger.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Profits were up 150%. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. If you are leading culture, not everyone will follow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We think the most important barriers include the following: Providers are organized and reimbursed around what they do, rather than what patients need. Some high-value services are not reimbursed at all, such as follow-up telephone contact after hospitalizations or “virtual” or informal consultations that avert the need for an office visit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When Pfizer undertook a major restructuring in 2007, they turned to ten employees to tell their stories. Pfizer employees looked forward to following the journeys of their colleagues who were experiencing the same uncertainties they were facing. Next, convert your leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

My clients range from early stage start-ups to corporate turnarounds to small businesses. I was stuck in the status quo, following the past rules – instead of challenging that same status quo that I wanted to write about. Plus I’m focusing on showing my working cow horse, Pearli Girl and then ski season is coming up.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

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