Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.

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LSA Global

MAY 10, 2023

We know how challenging it can be when you’re besieged by urgent and important problems to set time aside to think and plan for future talent management success. The most basic leadership succession questions revolve around: Do you know with confidence where your up-and-coming talent is in the organization?

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Can you automate manual processes?

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. What is most important is thoughtful, intentional, and consistent management routines that make new leadership behaviors and outcomes possible.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The situational leadership approach asks leaders and managers to adapt their leadership style to the specific situation and readiness of their followers. Research has shown that most leaders use one leadership style — so they don’t know how to unleash the potential of the individuals on their team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

These companies are facing wholesale change—from defining how technology reinvents entire functions to how the organization manages new workforce models to how to unlock value with cross-industry ecosystems. Fluid: Companies source and manage their workforces by accessing the best talent at the right time.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Here are some tips on how to coalesce your leadership team so that everyone is pulling in the same direction: Keep Everyone’s Eye on the Prize. Explicitly measure commitment levels and do what it takes to align your leadership team. The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan. Include a Caveat.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise. Yes, employees might need training in data analytics and coding, but they also need to learn design thinking, empathy mapping, and how to turn data into insights. To do that, begin to shift your thinking.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

. “We all pick up on subtle cues from other people, and that affects our behaviors and actions,” says Susan David, founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. “The longer it goes on, the worse it gets in terms of how frustrated other members of the group will become.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. So how can organizations seize the opportunities of the digital economy? Agile organizations are connected organizations. But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. How talent management is changing. These four competencies are the basis for global leadership. Project Credibility.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Create a leadership and development portal. What reports do we need? What data is missing?),

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Claris Consulting

MARCH 11, 2019

After giving a disclaimer about high levels of competency and a deep expertise in their respective areas, I provided my top ten list of suggested attributes for leadership and team effectiveness. They are continuously looking at and discussing how to build greater effectiveness with and through people as well as technology.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Challenge 2: Lack of digital talent . However, A&D companies experience certain talent challenges these days, which inevitably affect aerospace engineering, too: . Challenge 3: Resistance to change . Possible solutions .

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite large-scale, well-funded change initiatives, sophisticated communication programs, and countless worldwide leadership summits, the hard work of bringing these complex organization designs to life often lacks focus or is not sustained over the three or more years that it typically takes to fully embed new ways of working.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Try to predict how and where your plan for growth needs extra support to withstand the strains of new demands. Distraction and bandwidth may be the most underestimated strategic growth obstacles for most leadership teams. High growth requires high levels of focus, alignment, and talent. Strategic Ambiguity. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

The job of aligning the modern corporation is too complex to be added on to the slate of someone whose job it is to consider hundreds of other things, no matter how talented or powerful they are. If that’s the case, you urgently need to address this gap in leadership focus and capability. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

With the increase on focus on technology there is an increased need for extraordinary leadership. Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find.

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Cheryl Cran

JULY 20, 2013

The old leadership skills set no longer apply, and neither do the old ways of growing leaders. Evolutionary business also includes the commitment to transforming people, this means expanding beyond the lens of ‘people as jobs’ and looking at how to maximize peoples gifts and to help them contribute work that has meaning for them.

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Cheryl Cran

JULY 9, 2013

The old leadership skills set no longer apply, and neither do the old ways of growing leaders. Evolutionary business also includes the commitment to transforming people, this means expanding beyond the lens of ‘people as jobs’ and looking at how to maximize peoples gifts and to help them contribute work that has meaning for them.

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Leadership Development Agile Strategy 20

Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

With the increase on focus on technology there is an increased need for extraordinary leadership. Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find.

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Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

With the increase on focus on technology there is an increased need for extraordinary leadership. Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Talent management and organization design are powerful allies. Organizational redesigns are windows of opportunity to upgrade talent. Organizational redesigns are windows of opportunity to upgrade talent. Great talent can overcome poor organization design. But who would choose such an option? Very smart!

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. And yet it is possible.

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