Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Distraction and bandwidth may be the most underestimated strategic growth obstacles for most leadership teams. One of the best ways to sabotage growth is to have so many competing strategic priorities and initiatives that it is almost impossible to devote enough time, energy, and focus to get them right. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Integrating mindfulness into core talent processes such as onboarding, manager training, performance conversations and leadership development is also critical, though most organizations are not yet at this stage of adoption. The long-term payoff is that we preserve energy and prevent burnout over the course of days, weeks and months.

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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

MAY 16, 2016

Each state poses a different leadership challenge. It also leads to a more positive work climate, above-average staff engagement, a strong commitment to values and few(er) energy-sapping turf wars and in-fighting. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. That’s the agile way to do it.” “He hates change.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. How talent management is changing.

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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

The title of our book celebrates the internal energy and sense of insurgency that propels rapidly growing companies, but the book also warns of four predictable internal growth barriers that all too often trip up these companies during their pursuit of scale. Do we have a talent plan to match our growth plan? How do we know?

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