HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

Review 105

Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run.

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

And of course, there's always the small fear that we are about to do something stupid, as in the early days of email, when your colleague actually managed to message "Philips is a complete tool" to everyone in the company. Refuse to use the technology and we end up behind the curve. So it's a double bind.

Marketing 14

Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

GDP 14

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2017

The battle that is fought in the trenches is the marketing campaign. Exposing your brand to new markets should be treated like a well-orchestrated battle plan. Whether you’re trying to expose your brand to a new market, releasing a new product or service or expanding to another country, you want to give cause to your actions.

Marketing 50

Marketing Brand Advertising Marketing Strategy 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. They misprocess the medical claims.

Waterman 56

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Media multitasking makes managers less thoughtful and more inclined to exercise poor judgment, Nass says. At the very least, managers should insist that employees bring no electronic devices to meetings. UK e-cig advocate Clive Bates hopes so: "The market is producing, at no cost to the taxpayer, an emerging triumph of public health."

Management 8

Management Health Care Insurance Sharpe 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. And managers aren’t helping. Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. But the reality is the bigger burden is on employees.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. One person wasn't smiling.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). And a recent academic report concurs. Most of these moments don't occur in IT.

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Middle Management Energy 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Neither alone controlled speed to market, but together they could significantly influence it.

How To 8

How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. you wouldn't say, "Software updates." That's a topic, not a big idea.

Audience 16

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. “Eliminating my commute frees up seven more hours per week I can spend reaching out to clients,” or “my being in Chicago allows the company to cover the Midwest markets efficiently and at no additional cost” are more compelling, inarguable statements than “I wanted to spend more time at home.”

How To 8

How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. The emergence of the iPhone and smart technology completely altered the way consumers interact with media and brands. Data-Driven Marketing. Ilka & Franz/Getty Images. But that kind of brand is a layer of communications.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

I seldom, if ever, hear that apologetic tone from students choosing technology companies or consulting. Finance is different from other fields in two ways: Financial markets provide near immediate and easily quantified feedback, and the consequences of decisions can be inflated by leverage. So, graduates entering finance, take heart.

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. you wouldn't say, "Software updates." That's a topic, not a big idea.

Audience 9

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

In both cases, senior managers had posed a seemingly simple question. Experimentation has a rich and storied history in product development and market research. This means the attendant focus, sharp definition of the question, careful design, data you can trust, and in-depth analyses — just what is called for in many situations.

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address. The implications of the report for risk management go far beyond the nuclear industry.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

By understanding and managing the perception of others my managing our own attitudes and acceptance of others even when they don’t agree with us is vital to our ability to expand our own knowledge and skills and to be perceived as a true leader. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

While Functional Fixedness has no doubt been around since Man first tied a sharp rock to a stick with a length of vine and called it a spear, it was Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker that originally coined the term after conducting what has become a famous (among psychologists, anyway) cognitive bias experiment. I believe it is possible.

Innovation 8

Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

Blog 387

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. Management cred? ” Wealth creation? Cultural sway?

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. How to get started?

Diversity 14

Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

aren’t taught management skills in medical school. A popular way of bringing physicians up to speed is to elevate them into management roles and team them with business executives. Fair or not, they believe it’s harder for leaders without clinical expertise to see how cutting costs impacts quality of care.

Training 14

Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 14