Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

The term artificial intelligence first appeared in an article by Stanford professor John McCarthy in 1979. It will be one of the many technologies that comply with Amara’s Law (named after the scientist and futurist Roy Amara): We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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Emotional Intelligence Short-term Technology Banking 251

Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

Have SMART Long-term Goals. Whether you start with a short or long-term goal, you want to ensure the goals are smart. Start with a long-term goal. You can then set short-term goals to guide you in achieving the overall objective. Alongside this should be teams that know how to operate the technology.

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Company Succession Long-term Outsourcing 122

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette). Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. Fortunately for me, I grew up in strategic environments and I learned to balance operational challenges with strategic opportunity. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

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Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 196

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How to create positive change in company diversity? These were only some of the topics The HR Digest discussed with Shannon Bagley, Executive Vice President – Human Resources at Centene Corporation. What is the role of HR in driving the diversity agenda?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Creating Shared Value" Karen Keegans, SVP & CHRO of Rockwell Automation, is not short on ambition. Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about these programs and how they promote change within the company in practical terms? Karen Keegans is the senior vice president, human resources at Rockwell Automation.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ramcess Jean-Loiuis, Pfizer’s Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Officer, is not short on ambition. Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Ways to Make People Like You : Talk in terms of the other person’s interests (and 5 others).

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Leadership Open-book Influence Training 213

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances. the easiest way….the and on and on.

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Loyalty Reference Maturity Human Capital 256

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

This short-term view is not what is best for your business going forward and could be highly damaging. It is a long-term investment that will pay you great dividends in the future. Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Opening your email as soon as you get into the office immediately draws you into an onslaught of short-term problems. Which, of course, negatively impacts performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. The remaining CEOs were termed outsider successions (408 firms).

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

One of her major partners is the National Human Resource Association. HR volunteers not only help with skills assessment but also with how to put transferable skills to work when applying for specific jobs. All gone, just as Working Wardrobes was preparing for its 30 th anniversary. She’s never stopped asking for help.

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Core Competence Strategic Planning Short-term Human Resources 278

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Human Resources Oversees Training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Every size of business needs training. merely begins.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

“Big data” has become such a ubiquitous phrase that every function of business now feels compelled to outline how they are going to use it to improve their operations. <span>What the two terms really mean -- and how to effectively use each.</span> Related Video. </span> Save.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. Talent-as-a-Service – Use crowdsourcing platforms like Topcoder or Kaggle to access talent that may not be available in the enterprise, commonly for projects but conceivably for operations too. The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees. Accessing Talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. Introducing short-term campaigns. In fact, they may even do more harm than good by promoting quick fixes as opposed to long-term progress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Upon reading about the study, I wondered if the idea of such long-term research could be attempted in another field that touches all of us: work. After more than a decade in People Operations, I believe that the experience of work can be — should be — so much better. Employee retention Human resources Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

One reason is many bundled-payment contracts use artificially short time horizons, not a complete cycle of care, which cause the contract to be similar to a traditional fee-for-service model. Bundled payments (BP) have the potential to reward providers that deliver more value to their patients — better outcomes at lower costs.

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Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. The short time horizon topics (e.g., A regular operational meeting needs to be crisp and therefore as short as possible. Business builder meetings.

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Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The lure of incentives are a problem in boardrooms too: Bonus payments and executive share schemes are often based on short-term business metrics, which can be counter to long-term success. They talked about how challenging it was to decide whose cultural “rules” were paramount when making business decisions.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

From their efforts, we derived four steps on how to get started with introducing new standard work processes for point-of-care staff. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Use Early Wins to Build Momentum.

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Health Care System Metrics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Here’s how to make the interview process work for you — and for them. How to Separate the Winners from the Spinners. Is he a long-term planner or a short-term thinker? Your job is to assess candidates but also to convince the best ones to stay. Prepare your questions. Further Reading. Hiring Article.

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How To Stephenson Stress Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Other feedback may be within the company’s control, but difficult to change in the short term, such as the quality of facilities, the title or level of the job in question, or the compensation and benefits package being offered.

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Company Human Resources Open-book Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather, executives make decisions about how to organize work, how to reward individuals for their labor, and where the boundaries of their firm should be. In aggregate, these decisions play an important role in determining how much each of us gets paid. In practice, firms fall along a continuum between these two ideal types.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges a company can face is changing people’s behavior — getting them to collaborate and be humble, for example, or put the company’s long-term interests first. Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. It’s great, thank you for having me. I’m excited to have the conversation.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Contract terms and conditions. Our biggest donor said I could ask him for more money if we fell short, but I feel awkward going back to him again. The Vice-President of Human Resources: your inner Lover. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. Life is a series of negotiations. Collecting fees.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The main difference is that clusters will typically be hired permanently by a business with a mutual intention to commit for the long term. Also, the cluster model puts extreme emphasis on teams that learn how to work well together and determine their own tools and work practices. This is not always true of consultancies.

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Real Estate Talent Management Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As they built up a unique network of thousands of entrepreneurs across 35 countries, they started to see that there was a lot of demand in reverse — companies kept asking them for advice on how to become more entrepreneurial instead of wanting to simply connect with entrepreneurs.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Human resources development. View goals as long-term, rather than short-term. by Hank Moore.

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Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. How to Find Goals: Examine problems.

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