Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 15, 2013

As a self confessed ‘girl geek’, when Social Media Networking came along, I couldn’t resist getting involved. What do a former arctic trawlerman, a former human resource manager in the gas industry, CMI member Emma Grant, and a book about Twitter have in common?

Tips 101

Tips Human Resources Media Resistance 101

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

David Grossman shares Change Management Communication: 5-Step Plan + Template. David says change management communication is an essential component of building awareness and support for organizational change. We all know we need to take time away from work but we often resist. Diversity, Language & Miscommunication.

Leadership Development 97

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 97

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

As a 23 year-old Macleans Toothpaste Brand Manager in 1970, my colleagues and I competed against powerhouses P&G, Colgate and Unilever. Clout allows these giants to grow, but there is absolutely no reason why a smaller player cannot become a market leader within their chosen market(s).

Creativity 240

Creativity Brand Management Marketing Resistance 240

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Michael Jackson , the theme to “Billie Jean” and a phenomenal blend of marketing and entertainment drove the Pepsi brand to the pinnacle of contemporary culture. So, what are Pepsi’s marketers doing to revitalize it?

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CEO Advertising Brand Marketing Strategy 242

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change. Walk the talk.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1. Priority on People. How many times have you heard this one? That is the good news.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Press Release Discount PR Leadership 192

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

In today’s tough job market, workers want to be sure their career has a future that fits into the changing economy. While some businesses still resist this trend, modern technology has leveled the playing field for telecommuters and in-office staff. Career Advancement Opportunities. Telecommute Option.

Health Care 187

Health Care Education Brand Discount 187

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Survey employees, managers and department heads. By bringing department heads and regional managers together with IT, HR can facilitate an implementation strategy that works for everyone. At Software Advice , for example, Marketing employees recorded video tutorials for various tools we use.

Technology 56

Technology Software Tools Reputation 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

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. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

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. The chair of the new three-person committee, Richard L.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. It even has management in the title. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. “That sounds terrific,” I said, thinking that matched my interests, “What function is that?”

Advertising 9

Advertising Human Resources Consultative Career 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” As you might imagine (and may have already experienced), this can make for bad feelings and underperforming senior management teams.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Micromanagement CEO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

(I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. Your physicians almost certainly will resist.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. To attract Nike’s business, Silver Star created a new set of human-resource policies, including the minimum-wage guarantee, health and old-age benefits, and an implicit promise to continue employing workers made redundant because of technological changes.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Management is concerned that resources are not concentrated on important things.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

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. As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. To resist the urge to self-censor. I’m glad I did.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The startup got an eye-opening inside view of how a bank’s IT shop actually launched new services and the bank realized the fintech’s approach to security management would prove superior to its own. Fortunately, they tend to be manageable. Pilots always surface previously unknown or unanticipated enterprise issues.

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Resist the temptation to tell your tyrant boss what you think of her on the way out the door. “Do Consider where you went wrong in your last search and don’t be afraid to ask hard questions of prospective employers — questions like what success looks like at the company and how managers handle challenges. Take the high road.

Short-term 8

Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. The leaders of these companies aren’t ‘managing the store’; they’re building new stores. Twenty-five years ago Apple’s board recommended Steve Jobs step down and leave the guidance of the company to a ‘professional manager’. Main menu Home.

CEO 170

CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I went in assuming his students believed corporate management and entrepreneurship were principles of contradiction — the only contrarians would be members of the flat earth society. Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. “I want you for balance.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Here''s the point: Hiring managers are only human. Hiring managers are going with their gut feel or what they think are "sensible" ideas about what makes a good candidate when the resist hiring the long-term unemployed. Millions of other unemployed facing this job market gave up looking and dropped out of the labor force.

Long-term 9

Long-term Human Resources Sharpe Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. All-inclusive global talent market. Analytics, algorithms, big data, and artificial intelligence increasingly abolish work previously performed by humans but also create new work at the interface of humans and automation.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8