Change Starts Here

JUNE 19, 2013

Similar workshops I’ve conducted privately for clients have enabled leadership and project teams to gain clarity about the change they want to implement and to figure out how they can influence the desired change effectively. That way, your change initiative can continue moving ahead without getting stuck.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is not just an Information Technology (IT) issue. Primal Leadership: Realizing the power of emotional intelligence. Tim Vanderpyl is a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP) with Canada’s largest catholic healthcare organization. (credit for sparking this idea in my research goes to Dan Friesen ).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. Rather, it is using judgment at the right time and in the right place to seize the competitive edge. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Thanks again for the comment Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

They conducted a large-scale experiment in a Fortune 500 company and found that work-family conflicts don’t need to be solely employees’ individual, private troubles, but can be resolved systemically with a little management leadership. Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. At the organizational level, as I have written frequently, effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources. Networks connect; communities care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Leaders like Ellyn Shook, the chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, actually carry around “dumb phones,” which don’t have any apps and can’t send or receive email. By doing so, they can more readily adapt not just to technology trends but also to organizational and societal trends.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even though this (or any) sort of accommodation was rare at this firm, his supervisor agreed, acknowledging that my friend was responsible, talented, and perceived to have great potential for top leadership. Managing employees is not easy, and for the most part, human resource policies in large organizations are designed to simplify things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Human resources departments are also looking globally at traditionally analytically-intensive sectors ranging from meteorology to medicine and finance to find talented candidates. Information & technology' This talent isn’t cheap: a top data scientist can command a $300,000 salary in the current market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. One early evening a few weeks ago I went for a walk in the streets of Vienna.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need. This will not do.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Safe to say you've definitely missed your chance to have Brad Pitt will play you in a film about your heroic analytical leadership.) Depending on the industry you're in, it may be too late to use analytics to best competitors with deeper pockets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

If you want to stake out a leadership position in big data for your company — and I would encourage you to do so — you don't really have an alternative to joining the data scientist recruiting scrum. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' But there’s a catch: Very precisely matching talent to “the future” is of little value if that future doesn’t happen. Increasingly, you cannot.

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