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212: Building a Courageous Culture that Facilitates Innovation and Problem-Solving | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results–Without Losing Your Soul.

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213: Dealing with Challenging Employees when Building Courageous Culture | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results–Without Losing Your Soul.

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What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Through our research at DXC Technology’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF), we have identified eight breakthrough talent management stratagems that most organizations aren’t doing — so almost none have mastered — but that hold significant promise. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.