Strategy Driven
JANUARY 30, 2019
In case you run a business with a high environmental impact, you might consider installing a ground water monitoring system to ensure you are not putting communities at risk or breaking the law. If you are trying to control or even micromanage every process in your organization, you are going to get overwhelmed very soon.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2014
Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 21, 2016
But consider the micromanager who asks you to document every step of your calculations so that he can be sure you got the right answer. Though that may sound like perverse logic, or perhaps a reaction to a poorly thought-out incentive system, research has found they’re not alone. Too much transparency can increase distrust.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 2, 2017
Many companies claim that hiring the best people is “job one,” but traditional hiring systems don’t make it easy. The Society of Human Resource Management found that 53% of companies that checked references uncovered falsities about the length of previous employment, and 51% discovered false claims about past salaries.
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