Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Discussion on management consultancy often reduces the clientele of strategy firms to multinational corporations. Although this might largely be the case, such a simplistic view ignores a major field of consulting: governmental and public sector advisory services. Different mindset.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Becoming a better thinker requires you to understand the way you think, how you view the world, and developing a way of approaching problems that allows you to see things through multiple lenses. Models that help us understand our mental processes (anchors and biases) and how they lead us astray. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 29, 2014

The feelings aroused from past hurts make it difficult to see clearly, the blood boils and the mind can replay the situation many times, thinking of how we were wronged and counting the ways we might be able to get even. This power can sometimes be used to hurt us, and the negative emotions that result leave us feeling dis-empowered.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Learning needs to be built into how power really works within organizations, organized around peer power, functional power, and hierarchical power. They create social norms, they dictate the unspoken standards, they define whom to collaborate with and whom to avoid, and they decide how much risk to take.

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LSA Global

MARCH 25, 2021

Most surveys identify changes that are needed, but you know how hard behavioral change can be. You need allies who can work with employees to help them understand: What needs to change and why How the changes will affect them overall and in their daily routines What the desired goal will look like and how they will benefit.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2018

And, the more the changes portend to disrupt the current state of how and why work gets done, the more personal the change will be. It is through these “tribes” of like-minded people with established norms of how work gets done that change can be most effectively facilitated. They can be powerful allies in the change process.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

But for some gay colleagues, a simple question about the weekend or a decision of how to decorate the workspace carries significant stress—how to act, who to trust, what to share. For example, psychologists Heather Rasinski and Alexander Czopp looked at how people perceive confrontations about a racially-biased comment.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Men and women don’t look at office politics and power dynamics the same way. That may explain why 68% of women said they dislike office politics, even though they want to assert themselves at work—and why the majority of women in our interviews said they were more interested in “influence” than in pure power.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It was not an easy task, but I had a powerful weapon in mind from the start: reorganization. When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. Determine What You’re Working Toward.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s a powerful way to share your ideas and become recognized in your field, but there’s no question that preparing to speak on a panel can be stressful — you have to figure out what to say, practice being concise, and worry about overlapping with your colleagues. Let me know if it works and see you later today!”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

As an organizational psychologist and executive coach, I’ve had a ringside seat to the power of leadership self-awareness for nearly 15 years. I’ve also seen how attainable this skill is. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images. Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. For us, flywheel is a powerful metaphor. It was the right thing to do. That’s no longer true. The Flywheel.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This helped us build a rich picture about how they and others connect their hobbies to their leadership. A few common themes stood out about how their passion helps them: It provides detachment like nothing else can. We have identified dozens of S&P 500 CEOs who have what we call “serious leisure” interests.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. She casts a spell that allows her to enter minds and change what they feel, which allows her to change what they think, which allows her to influence how they act.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

3 Simple Ways for Women to Rethink Office Politics and Wield More Influence at Work. Recently, I was flying home from the Conference for Women, where I had been invited to speak. The guy sitting next to me on the airplane noticed it and asked me about the conference. ” We need to show that it actually does. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

How about keeping your job, but changing what you do in your job? Thomas Barwick/Getty Images. According to research published by the New York Times, one in four of us has abandoned our New Year’s resolutions by January 8. Some resolutions are too daunting for people to follow through on.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power. Is it OK for a few firms to possess so much data and thereby wield so much power? ” To target U.S. That required lots of personal data. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 9, 2018

Growing market power has also harmed the forces of economic dynamism. Guided by the late Robert Bork’s seminal work, The Antitrust Paradox , conservatives invoke a total welfare standard that regards efficiency-enhancing mergers as presumptively legitimate, no matter how those gains are allocated between consumers and producers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When the rich and powerful made lame self-referential jokes, executive team members laughed too loud and too long. Authors invite you into an article with tacit collusion: describing some miscreant then doling out advice for how to fix “him” or “her.” Power-wielding. How to Manage a Toxic Employee.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

We highlighted how antitrust, the underpinnings of which are based on industrial-age economic theories, needs new thinking in the digital age to ensure that antitrust policies continue to remain effective guardians of consumer welfare without inadvertently impeding economic progress. How Monopoly Has Typically Worked.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Uses of “great” usually begin with descriptions of being unusually intense or powerful, either “to great effect” or “a great effort.” Great leadership is powerful, dominating, often overwhelming. How talent management is changing. Leadership is not one-dimensional. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

I call this approach nonprofit judo , a reference to the martial art that emphasizes how an apparently disadvantaged player can succeed through a strategy that turns weaknesses into strengths. After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

There seems to be a growing cadre of authors, academics, and journalists that would answer in the negative. ” At the heart of this work is the concern that algorithms are often opaque, biased, and unaccountable tools being wielded in the interests of institutional power. Orlagh Murphy/Getty Images. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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MishTalk

MAY 29, 2014

The ensuing attitude change has profound implications, and that is the focus of the Brookings study: How Millennials Could Upend Wall Street and Corporate America. The ensuing attitude change has profound implications, and that is the focus of the Brookings study: How Millennials Could Upend Wall Street and Corporate America.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Interestingly, when you’re hired into Towers Watson you do not have the opportunity to work across multiple practice areas to become a generalist in wielding all magical HR powers – instead, you’ll need to pick one that will become a speciality area for you. In fact, it can trace its roots all the way back to 1878.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

I’ve identified one constant across this long-distance livelihood: No matter how satisfying the to-do list — or how much of an introvert you think you are — telecommuting leaves you craving company. Right now I’m halfway through The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , by Stephen Greenblatt.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

3 Simple Ways for Women to Rethink Office Politics and Wield More Influence at Work. Rosemary Calvert/Getty Images. Ashley Fina’s grandfather was a natural networker. As the founder of his own New York retail store, Michael C. It was really my father’s biggest regret,” Ashley recalls now. You and Your Team Series.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Not everybody can learn how to carry the expectations, demands, and ambitions of a company on a single pair of shoulders. It isn’t all about power and wielding your authority. Employees have a lot more power now than they ever did. A good leader knows that power isn’t always visible. It’s Okay to Be Humble.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

Given how important mentoring is, there’s surprisingly limited guidance about how to become a good mentor. The five components of emotional intelligence and how to improve each. Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

It is very difficult to imagine how universal coverage could be sustainable over the long run without a central payment system. It is very difficult to imagine how universal coverage could be sustainable over the long run without a central payment system. To be sure, some important players remain opposed to a single-payer system.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Before going into the details of how this approach would work, let’s first understand the problems that need to be solved. Hayon Thapaliya. The percentage of U.S. GDP spent on health care continues to rise, reaching 17.9% At the same time, health insurance premiums have increased as much as 60% in the individual market in some states.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

CEOs have the ability to direct conversation and wield significant influence. He broke off an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee (RNC) worth $1.3 million, due to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign. ” Peretti is not alone. ” Peretti is not alone.

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