Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Fifteen minutes before I saw this banner the operations & human resources managers were telling me about their individual incentive program to increase output. Make Failure and Learning an Objective :: Resistance to Change. This contradiction of language and practice happens across all kind of jobs.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Human Resources. As the designated “people people” in most organizations, human resources professionals are often seen as responsible for organizational features like culture, employee satisfaction, and employee performance. Though many try, the leadership team alone cannot implement a strategy.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. It’s a byproduct of leadership that should cascade down throughout the organization. #2.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 110

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In the meantime, perennial innovators the likes of Apple, FedEx and Amazon extended their leadership over old-guard competitors. Your job,” I said, “is to choose an organization with a buoyant culture and a leadership team that’s not afraid of change. Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

What I appreciated the most about this book is that Parker resisted the urge to stuff culture into a Maxwell-ian “Three Keys to Fixing Your Culture” type summary. While the companies Parker studies are mostly Canadian, almost all of them operate globally. Generating a culture is an art, not a science. New York: McGraw Hill.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Leadership. by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. However, it woke up Coke who were forced to look beyond their advertising and instead at their operational strategy. Human Resources. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

To help resist an automatic impulse to hit the reply button, consider these three quick tips: Turn off all email notifications, including pop-up windows, alarms, and ring tones. He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. To resist the urge to self-censor. Last week, Mathew Creamer of Advertising Age said Linds Redding’s ‘Short Lesson in Perspective’ was the best piece of advertising writing you’ll ever read.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. It had to come from the leadership, and it had to come with some humility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. There was lots of resistance.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

How is your company’s leadership making informed decisions about the arrangement of your company as a complex system of many moving and interconnected parts — including organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems — all aimed at fulfilling one overarching purpose? What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Perhaps it's easier to start by discussing the pathologies of a dysfunctional Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation. Resist the temptation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant. Boards Innovation Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

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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. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If your job isn’t giving you what you need to develop,” says Clark, “that may be your opportunity to take a leadership role in a professional organization to make contacts and build skills that help you further down the line.”. Resist the temptation to tell your tyrant boss what you think of her on the way out the door. “Do

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. They are also vastly underrepresented as managers of general operations, computer information, industrial production, and transportation.

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