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. They’re projecting today into tomorrow.

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Agility Quinn Mintzberg Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Phil Johnston, an executive search leader at Spencer Stuart, confirms that Quinn’s initial reaction wasn’t unusual: “When a CEO asks a business leader to run HR, the most frequent response is ‘What did I do wrong?’ I push leaders.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum. So now the U.S.

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Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

The lack of parental leave plans in most US organizations “reflects the disconnect between people’s personal lives and their work lives,” says Lotte Bailyn, professor emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “But if your manager is more chill, why not have the information?” Get a head start.

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Planning Quinn Project Contingency Plans 8