The Practical Leader
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.
HR Digest
APRIL 11, 2024
The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. They provide insights into strategic HR planning, the dynamic between HR and line managers, and global trends impacting the field. Laszlo Bock’s “ Work Rules!
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Quinn : “Effective change leaders are not experts with a plan. Leaders need to anticipate resistance early in the change or innovation process.”. Career Management. Mark Nevins : “Many stalled leaders go back to the well and tap what’s always served them before—their drive, their intellect or knowledge, classic management tools.
Strategy Driven
MAY 14, 2020
While this source is primarily attributable to the individual, it doesn’t mean the manager doesn’t have a role to play too. It’s important for managers to pay attention and help their employees to “get up to speed.” Conflict, if it’s managed well, can be healthy for the organization. So, don’t be afraid of it.
Women on Business
MAY 24, 2012
They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. In Donald Quinns article on winning he wrote, “When winning becomes important enough to focus on, when we have the talent and skills needed we are primed to win.” Out of sixteen competencies tested women scored higher in twelve.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 25, 2012
There are a lot of informal negotiations that go on with supervisors," agrees Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School and the author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty. Start with your manager. Framing your request as an exception to the policy can make some managers uncomfortable.
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