The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2022

The study found that when managers rely on variable work schedules, higher employee turnover is common as it can result in a fall in employees’ health, work-life balance, and even job security. Research from Cornell reminds us, however, that variable work schedules can be detrimental to performance.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2021

Entrepreneurs are many things, but one thing that is common in many portrayals of them in popular culture is their acceptance of uncertainty, their courage in the face of risks, and their determination to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It’s a phenomenon that the researchers believe has profound implications. “[It]

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

Combine this with the fact that Deloitte 2019 Human Capital Survey cites that 80% of companies don’t think they have the right leadership capability in place to address this, then we obviously have a leadership crisis on our hands. Being a proactive leader of your business and grabbing the reins is so important to ensure success.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Equally important are individuals who showcase innovative thinking, as this trait is essential to driving growth and navigating the uncertainties of the future business landscape. Emphasis should also be placed on people’s adaptability in the face of rapidly changing circumstances, a crucial aspect of modern leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

The significant increases in employee engagement have been partially eroded due to global anxiety and rapid technological advances creating uncertainty about job losses, although Africa’s engagement levels continue to rise. Progress in employee engagement has stalled or is rolling backwards.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Employee wellbeing is slowly emerging as one of the top 10 global human capital trends as we shift towards an expansive future of work. The pandemic magnified the importance of employee wellbeing at work, and organizations got a glimpse of the uncertainty and stress faced by workers from all walks of life. trillion annually.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills. The Mobile Era Matures.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 26, 2011

That is because trust allows us to function in times of uncertainty. Trust calms the fears that uncertainty breeds. In times of high uncertainty, therefore, we pay more attention to the source of trust: human conduct-- How we do what we do. That something is trust. That's the secret. It buys you the benefit of the doubt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I invited my friend Peter Cappelli, a Wharton professor, author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, and a recognized world authority on human capital, to discuss his new approach to talent management. Edited excerpts of our conversation follow: MG: First, what is talent management?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 14, 2015

This mood makes for a great motivator, not only for us to tackle the chores of spring cleaning where we clear our homes of undesired clutter, but also as a driving force for us to find new ways to streamline and better manage the unending demands on our time, energy, and resources. What should we keep doing?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

What are the components of innovation capital? One’s innovation capital—or ability to convince sponsors to support a novel idea—comes from three interrelated innovation-specific factors: . Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The report suggests that our difficulty in predicting such events is less due to their inherent uncertainty as it is to do with our failure to adequately recall events from the distant past. “As The study also highlights the crucial role our managers play in engendering loyalty.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  As a service to you I have narrowed down this collection of reading material to highlight five blog posts from the week of October 18th - 24th, 2010 that I found to be especially good reading.  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  The world is awash in depressing media headlines, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty about what the future holds in store for us. License. . There are also serious business ramifications to be found in The Happiness Project.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  I have selected five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to get your work week off to a great start.  Enjoy!

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

A study just published in the Academy of Management Journal examined how others aspects of CEO personality impact firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SME) in a dynamic industries (e.g. Our strategy reflects a high level of flexibility in managing political, economic, and financial risks. high technology). Simmons, Ph.D.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 29, 2012

” He goes on to show “three strategies are helping smart companies dominate: They manage for value. They keep developing human capital. Build strengths and boldly say boo to the ghosts and goblins of doubt and uncertainty. They get radically customer-centric.” “ Weaknesses are scary.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Beyond alarming questions of what is "fair" to the innovators themselves, few have considered how these human capital controls might impact the quality and quantity of innovation--and ultimately economic growth. Businesses hate uncertainty. We have all been trained that the more control we have, the more successful we will be.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Fear.less can help. 

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak. With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. Communicate early successes widely while managing expectations appropriately along the way.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report shows how far many organizations still have to go. It found that fear and uncertainty were the predominant emotions when discussing AI and data-driven technologies, with just 6% of organizations saying they were ready to embrace the new opportunities.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

Given the inherent uncertainty and complex working environment in those early months and years, it makes sense that the a cohesive and united founding team is crucial to longer-term success. There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Their greatest human capital concerns have shifted. And higher education isn''t offering the human capital cure. In fact, temps with Androids and iPhones already use services like Gigwalk and LinkedIn to more profitably find and manage their part-time and/or temporary work. A recent McKinsey & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty. Would they defect to competitors? This seemingly counterintuitive finding infuriated the group.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Meanwhile, the laggards continue to spend their time and money on assets that do not scale so easily — physical goods (such as manufacturing plants or inventory) and human capital (such as highly trained employees that deliver services). These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been. This remains a CEO’s prime responsibility, and it has become much harder in an era defined by lower growth, impatient investors, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid technological change. Invest in human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

As an economist, my training in how individuals invest during times of uncertainty leads me to a much different prediction: America’s coastal cities are going to adapt, get ahead of climate change, and be just fine. As sea levels rise, are these cities doomed to an underwater future? I doubt it. How can I be so optimistic?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

What I didn't expect was to learn lessons about organizational strategy and behavior that would inform my work as a human capital consultant. Professionally, I help large businesses manage risk by focusing on how their recruiting, compensation, training, and other systems encourage people to behave. It's: "Don't get too big."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. To respond to this challenge, companies will need to become more sophisticated about strategy during uncertainty in five ways. Match Your Strategy to the Environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

For example, we foresee professional service firms, such as accounting, law, and consulting, using increasingly complex artificial intelligence models to perform audits, analyze legal parameters, and provide management consulting services. trillion and $400 billion in capital and R&D expenditures, respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Len and Cal are fictional characters, but they represent the findings of our research ( forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal) on one large U.S. corporate law firm, which indicates that the political values of managers can be a powerful influence on how they allocate bonuses. We found that they were not.

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