Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Center-led is not just a structure or reporting system. Programs and staff grow.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The best decisions and solutions are arrived at after considering a variety of perspectives and having key assumptions challenged by bosses, peers, direct reports, and customers. Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. Neglecting the Long-term Leaders face enormous pressure to meet short-term goals.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). Advertise successes.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. But it’s not only their career stage that makes agile talent potentially excellent mentors.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

After massive investments of time and money, too many companies report failing at strategy execution. How you proceed will depend on whether the disagreements are related to misaligned strategy, culture, or talent assumptions, and if the conflict is within an established hierarchy of power or among peers. Consider the Context.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. How talent management is changing. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. Project Credibility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Discipline and Focus. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

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Energy Agile Survey Training 48

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Agile innovation teams are small.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Based on my experience, here are three ways leaders can shift a company culture from a one-and-done focus on “training” employees in analytics to an “always on” focus on analytics adoption: Form competency centers. What reports do we need? “What” questions (What are the results?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. High-performing teams realize 10% greater market share and report 22% better performance when it comes to developing new products. better sales and revenue growth.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A company-wide or team view of 360-degree feedback provides talent management insights into organizational performance and culture. The exceptions are with the leader of the individual being assessed, which is typically one person, and direct reports, which should include all. Organizational Talent Consulting. Reid, A.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “What you’re looking for is behavioral evidence that this person has the potential and talents to manage.” It’s also important to observe your ambitious report in action, says Ranieri. Gauge interest.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “Ask about the corporate culture,” she says.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Other areas, however, may benefit from standardized approaches.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Uber is one of them: Its valuation rose to a record-setting $68 billion just seven years after its founding, despite reporting losses of more than $700 million in the first quarter of this year. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. a) Agility. Learning from Big Companies. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. And because digital demands new skills, aptitudes, and ways of working, it requires a greater investment in employee support and culture change. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Do we have the right talent to analyze and act on that information? Beaudin: In our research, we look at leaders and laggards: the top and bottom 20 percent, respectively, based on a composite score of self-reported market share and revenue growth. How can we create relevant experiences while respecting their privacy? Beaudin: No.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As a result, strategies fail, customers leave, key talent is lost, and financial performance suffers. Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. Leading companies create a dynamic and agile delivery system, moving quickly to adjust strategy and implementation to exploit changing opportunities and risks.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The World Economic Forum published a report before “seismic disruption” shook up the industry (their words). Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Empowering talent. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. This OTM approach is furthered through external talent exchanges with clients and partners.

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