HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

Equally important to developing great investors is cultivating the leadership skills of our people; in fact, our employees participated in more than 13,500 hours of training in 2023. Leading through transformation often involves navigating resistance to change, both internally and externally.

Human Resources 59

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Learning-by-Doing 59

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Participants can share their experiences, exchange ideas, and collaborate on solutions to common business challenges.

Training 52

Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2015

Guest post from Paul Axtell: Any time you lead or participate in a meeting, you are going to be confronted with situations and behaviors that don’t work. Interrupting, using technology, having side conversations, hijacking the conversation, resisting what someone says, etc.) Take a moment and answer these two questions: 1.

Short-term 120

Short-term Long-term Consultative Resistance 120

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Being reluctant to adopt new learning strategies can block your and your team’s growth and prevent you from reaching your highest potential. I participate in L&D activities because I want to learn. I participate in L&D activities because it is mandatory. I don’t participate as it's a waste of time and resources for me.

Trends 52

Trends Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Agility 52

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. Self-awareness is key to developing the coping strategies that will enable you to deliver breakthrough solutions without derailing.”. And of course, such breaks are more effective when you disconnect fully from technology.

How To 112

How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 112

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.”

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 10

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 31, 2015

Again, it’s our brain’s tendency to find that path of least resistance; of assuaging any uncertainty we may have to grapple with by accepting only those narratives or assumptions that serve to reinforce how we choose to view our leadership and ourselves.

Uncertainty 100

Uncertainty Motivation Learning-by-Doing Short-term 100

Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

Each participant brings their unique criteria into the mix; Given politics, internal relationship issues, history and future, it’s challenging to get buy-in from everyone involved with the final solution, yet the buy-in is necessary to ensure the status quo doesn’t implode with a new purchase or change. Do you want to push your solution?

Marketing 84

Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. The strategy of promoting its technology helped Europe win this battle and gather the spoils in growth, profitability, and employment.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Here are some ways to broaden the participation: When you open the meeting: Let the group know that you want broad participation and that everyone has a chance to contribute on each topic. Ask people to set aside technology (see below) and any other work and to focus on each person when they are speaking.

Participative 10

Participative Rogers Information Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR technology enhances the physical environment you see by overlaying virtual elements, such as information or images over it, either through displays such as HoloLens and Google Glass or through the camera view on your smartphone. Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Participative Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Use videoconferencing to help yourself resist multitasking, and to help your team and colleagues maintain their focus. Maskot/Getty Images.

Conference 8

Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Older workers are generally seen as less motivated, less willing to engage in training and career development programs, more resistant to change, not as trusting, more likely to have health problems that affect their work, and more vulnerable to work-family conflicts. their perceived stereotypes).

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Report Learning-by-Doing Health Care Career 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

We contributed to this research in 2011 with a study on participants who completed an eight-week mindfulness program. The ACC is associated with self-regulation , meaning the ability to purposefully direct attention and behavior, suppress inappropriate knee-jerk responses, and switch strategies flexibly. Source: Fox et al. ).

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Stress Participative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. They shared recent publications and discussed the best strategies for how to ensure that patients are treated swiftly and their families and communities protected. Growing Participation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S. While it is common in Western Europe for non-executive directors to meet with shareholders to discuss strategy, governance, executive compensation, risk, and other matters within the board''s purview, U.S. Now, take the board''s role on strategy.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Banking CEO Diversity 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

But we are all accountable for keeping meetings effective, whether we are calling them or simply participating. In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. We just show up, make our presentations, and try to sound smart. Roger Schwarz.

CEO 8

CEO Rogers Review Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We've seen the advances technology brings to our everyday lives: we can pay bills online and shop 24/7; we don't need to wait for the morning newspaper to be delivered to the driveway; and we can check in for a flight online instead of waiting in line. People resist disrupting the status quo. I understand that change is hard.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Cost Bottom-up Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. Advances in technology are keeping pace. By one estimate, the number of remote workers in the U.S.

Company 8

Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means that Facebook is the largest participant in the program, and we are really proud of that. Here’s just one example: The Harvard Green Campus Initiative’s Loan Fund offered more than $2,800,000 to facilitate 32 projects that promoted energy- and water-conservation strategies on the Harvard campus.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

By treating security as an integral part of our product life cycle strategy, we’re able to identify and prevent potential security issues at speed and scale. Offer to send a security representative to participate in the ideation and design process with product teams. Insight Center. The Future of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by KPMG.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Sadly, the criteria for retail stores opening is the availability of property, not marketplace studies and strategies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture.

Crisis 62

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Sutton notes that we all have a tendency to look for confirmation of our own opinions, but we should also resist it. But before you sign up to lead the next task force with someone you don't like, remember that there is one exception: "If it's someone who violates your sense of what's moral, getting away isn't a bad strategy," says Sutton.

Goleman 17

Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 17

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents.

Transportation 83

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 83

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. To resist the urge to self-censor. I’m glad I did. To sleep on it.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In our October Harvard Business Review article “The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care” we describe the strategic agenda that is necessary to create a high value health care delivery system. No participant in the system has good information about patient outcomes and the cost of care. Health Strategy' Flying blind is dangerous.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Cost System 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. I believe their insights into healthy habits of leaders will inspire you to find your own. Michael Hyatt.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In my sample, experimenters initially assumed that better impulse control would result in at least one of three things: improved productivity, reduced technology-induced distraction, and a more reliable work process. Nevertheless, the real power of Pomodoro goes far beyond these familiar pop-ups, dings, and buzzes.

Power 8

Power Sample Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what was being said, so I decided to Google the phrase “Culture Trumps Strategy&# and found that Stanford offered an Entrepreneurship Lecture by this title, I found several CEOs using the phrase in speeches, press releases, etc., I think not, and I’ll explain why.

Blog 366

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

is reinforcing its defensive strategy by pursuing the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a 12-nation trade pact, without China. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. The opportunity costs of not participating could be quite high, with both economic and geopolitical dimensions. The argument for U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Last year, Germany had a slight increase in the number of female executives among its top compani es , which are fiercely resisting the fast-spreading EU quota legislation (from 6% to 9%). Yet we’re told the pipeline is getting stronger. Germany: Still tough for a working gal. Two have line roles, the rest are in staff jobs.

Execution 9

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

” In the book, I warned that technology might actually destroy more jobs than it was creating. It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves. Strategies for growth in a connected world. Technology is also the foundation of new species of businesses that are capable of wiping out entire industries.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8