HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

With the right performance review templates and sample performance appraisals, you can create a language that resonates with your employees, helping them understand their strengths and areas for improvement. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. But what makes an effective performance review?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

In commercial, industrial, and government applications—in the real-world usage of machine learning to predict—it's known as: Predictive analytics —Technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions. Applied Prediction. Risky debtors are given too much credit.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

” This is just a tiny sample of environmental doomcasting and fearmongering. Really — MIT Technology Review. Trust and optimism operate hand in hand when it comes to addressing climate change. Google the phrase “climate disaster” for 3.3 million more examples. The dire warnings aren’t wrong.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 16, 2021

Assess your application process using both mobile and desktop technology. Words such as serving, operating machinery, or entering data will all help the search engines pick up the job posting. Avoid catchy phrases for sample job posting ads on sites such as LinkedIn or Indeed. Internal Job Posting Announcement Sample.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. It's a perspective that has gone universal and is embedded in the way a company operates.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management.

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LDRLB

JUNE 13, 2014

DAVID: Here’s my question then, if the system that a manager’s operating in is that delayed feedback system, what can we do … I think about consequences positive and negative and I think about the working inside a system that is semi-annually or annually with dishing out those positive or negative consequences.

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Long-term 360-Degree Feedback Books Organizational Behavior 84

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Together, the leadership team can build out the scaffolds to transition the venture from an organization that revolves around the founder to one that revolves around an independent company brand.

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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. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Technology / Offering (Make different). Leadership Innovation (Work different). Leadership Innovation: The Questions Leaders Ask.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Commercially available tools, such as culture IQ polls, sample groups of employees through a smartphone app on a daily or weekly basis to generate real-time insights. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Leadership choices depend on many factors, of course, and need to be incredibly nuanced. The main thing to learn is the urgency with which consultants naturally operate. There are dangers in any leadership decision, and all people decisions are complicated. But this evidence perhaps further legitimizes the option.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. An analysis of an unbiased sample (or the entire population) would have yielded a different result. (Of

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Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Even worse, meetings can become a substitute for effective leadership communication. Instead, they take steps to address the underlying causes: Simplify the operating model. A company’s operating model encompasses its structure, governance, accountabilities, and ways of working. Dell Technologies is a case in point.

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Supply Chain Execution Operations Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

They could only learn by extrapolating from sample data collected during maintenance checks and repairs and developing insights on the various sub-components. Automobiles have their own proprietary operating system (e.g., With cars increasingly connected to the cloud through 4G LTE from telecom operators (e.g., Insight Center.

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Productivity Products Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” Enlightened leadership can create a more empathic culture.

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Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

For the family-owned business breakout: FOBs made up 8% of the sample and non-FOBs constituted 92% of sample. Boards Leadership Succession planning' Participants could choose as many as applied (plus there was a write-in option of “other”).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

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Creativity Trends Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. A retail cognitive assistant is a sample Cognitive/AI application.

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Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!). We did not find any notable differences by age group or education.

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