In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory. Squeaky wheels get the grease. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

Strategy 196

Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 196

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Technology Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

After more than a decade in People Operations, I believe that the experience of work can be — should be — so much better. Inspired by the Framingham research, our People Innovation Lab developed gDNA, Google’s first major long-term study aimed at understanding work. Innovation? We call them “Segmentors.”

Long-term 12

Long-term Survey Short-term Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Without such clearly defined standardized work for the day-to-day operations manager, two things happen. Engagement.

Health Care 9

Health Care System Metrics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Investment banks are also required to have a more stable funding base, with enough liquid assets to survive longer periods of stress.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. Webb’s hardcore perspective poses an existential challenge to most organizations’ views of human resources.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Human Resource Management.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. Let’s trade.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

High stress and anxiety — at all levels. Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Innovation is something other companies do. Too many operational changes. Office doors, once open, are closed. Loss of respect up, down and sideways. Frenzied work environment, but nothing gets done. Long payables.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Among peacocks, large tails so charm the peahens that the male tail has grown to the point where the males are stressed by the nutritional burdens of growing and carrying the stupendous appendage, and are more subject to predation because of its weight. The number of people affected by an innovation. As the late C.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12