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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

While challenging, this process brought a discipline into Neustar that has served as the foundation for a heightened focus on our employee experience – a formal and regimented change management process. Several key programs, co-created by management and employees, have set the tone and course for how we have navigated Neustar’s evolution.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Debriefing requires a team leader to lead the debrief.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

If your team’s strategy can be summed up by the English wartime slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On,” you need some new approaches to tackle their resistance. Martin describes how executive teams carefully explore the risk of different courses of action, but neglect to make a similar assessment of the risk of staying the course.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Six top-team tasks.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.