In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Though manifestos are best known for political movements, the ideals and intent of such potent texts can also move people to excel on behalf of the organizations that employ them. Cook said, W e’re on the face of the earth to make great products. Apple is a very good example. Read it and you’ll understand why.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

And as women, we can learn a great deal about how we behave in the work world; not to imitate our male counterparts, to align with them in positive, productive ways. Related posts: The Positive Side of Workplace Politics Post by Jane K. It is, also a pointer to the masculine in each of us. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Engineered to Win.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? The main reason underlying this bleak state of affairs is that HiPo nominations are contaminated by organizational politics.

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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. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results. But she could be a virtuoso political figure.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

I am not a big fan of any method, procedure, service, or product that requires a hard sell to friends and family. Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. I keep on message, I network, and I make my network work , for me and for others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

At least in our narrative, engagement has replaced productivity — work should be rewarding and fun, colleagues should be friends, and work-life balance has been replaced by work-life integration (as we work from home at 1 a.m. A new era of Taylorization has begun, thanks to the widespread penetration of technology at work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account. Technology Fatigue. Win-Loss Analysis Studies.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Branding has proliferated big time – we now have personal brands, country brands, political brands, cause-related brands, even cultural brands. The ramification is clutter, the arch enemy of brand identity.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When Tracy Keogh was appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer of HP Inc. she quickly emerged as one of the world’s leading figures in the technology industry. Our culture is not political but collaborative and non-hierarchical. Chief Human Resources Officer, HP Inc. Tracy Keogh.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Therefore, it’s helpful to collect feedback via a third party such as an external search, consulting or research firm; an internal market research, branding or analytics department that is outside of both the hiring area and human resources; and/or anonymously through web surveys or via email.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

” These companies understand that employees are as important as the paying customers who consume the products and services they sell. People want to work for companies that contribute to the communities they care about and help to fix society’s worries, provided that they do not do so with overtly political intentions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

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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. Avoid vague or general expression, such as, “politeness or “integrity”. Improves productivity by improving morale. Here is how it could look: i.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Human Resources. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. Search My Site.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. The answer appears to be yes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. It means responding productively to political opposition — maybe even bad-faith backstabbing — without getting sidetracked, distracted, or losing your focus. The topic in the Executive Committee meeting turned to Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

While many human resources managers cite structural issues like the skills gap as a key explanation, recruitment strategy plays a crucially important role. Other times, employers don’t want salaries to foment internal politics. Setting up technological barriers for job seekers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. We’ve got the latest technology. Our human resources department takes care of that. Quality is our middle name.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting. To be completed by March 31st.’

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

On a productive day, aside from the mountain of dead trees (recycling hadn’t been invented in 1982), stacked polystyrene coffee cups and an overflowing ash-tray, there would also be a satisfying thick sheaf of “concepts.” Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. But AI can also help support more complex decisions in key areas such as human resources, budgeting, marketing, capital allocation and even corporate strategy — long the bastion of bespoke consulting firms such as McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, and the major marketing agencies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

Here, a model is the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids , which has accomplished much by persuading legislatures, judges, and regulatory authorities to make tobacco products harder and more expensive for young people to acquire. KaBoom does this to build playgrounds in needy neighborhoods. Earnings Generation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday, many observers are rightly calling attention to the many strategic changes the company put itself through to remain relevant amidst dramatic technological and economic change. But one of the biggest transformations IBM went through is less about computers and more about culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Embrace the broader reality, with a special emphasis on all the information that is yet to be stored in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In the political arena, John McCain positioned himself as a ‘maverick’. I suppose this is partially as a technology executive, I think in startups and technology. As a writer with a corporate sales background, the best advice I can offer is cold call, market and sell your work the same as you would any product.

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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. Exponential technology change. Work resembles today, with similar technological connections and work arrangements, relying heavily on regular full-time employment. How should your organization plan for the changes ahead?

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