Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. While not (biologically) alive, these inanimate objects are explicitly trained to anticipate and respond to workplace needs. Microsoft’s Tay offers a painfully superb — and superbly painful — real-world case study of how networked abuse shapes UX.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority. Without adequate security awareness and training, people will recklessly open email messages from strangers, click on suspicious links, and take other needless risks. Craft a Behavior-Change Strategy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

” Only 19% of women and 23% of men say, “My workplace has provided additional training.” To substantially and sustainably reduce workplace sexual harassment, leaders must thoughtfully and deliberately commit to changing culture — not just implement stopgap measures. Go beyond information dumps to teach skills.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

Fostering corporate cultures which make half your employees feel somewhere between unengaged and unsafe is becoming risky and unsustainable. Dutch-based Royal DSM is a case study of multiple parallel transformations – in their business and in their leadership balance. The CEO is convinced that the one feeds the other.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? The sense of collective, shared purpose that emerges in the strongest company cultures adds an even greater boost to workplace meaning.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture. I had a very diverse team with a very different and strong culture.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

In these cases, working with a career coach can be helpful, Petriglieri says. Perhaps “you are being suffocated by a culture that wants to keep you in a state of being perpetually obsessed with your career,” Petriglieri says. “When I finished an article, it went into the library of resources,” he says.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Creating any kind of cultural transformation requires a long-term commitment, and that expectation should be set from the start across the various stakeholders interested in bringing the organization into the data-driven era. Train managers to focus on providing private recognition to exceptional employees.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

.” Nobody wants to produce boring presentations that waste everybody’s time, but they do; nobody wants to train machine learning algorithms that produce misleading predictions, but they will. Crudely put, where active machine learning has people training machines, passive machine learning has machines training people.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Simply turning the work over to machines won’t help: most machine learning and statistical mining techniques also hold the assumption that historical data, which is used to train the machine-learning model, behaves similarly to the target data, to which the model is later applied. A model that considered data from beyond the U.S.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Do you need to provide training? ” In most organizations, “first-timers don’t get a lot of formal training,” says Hill. The best training for someone learning to become a manager is individualized attention from you, their boss. Go through the same training. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” Left unchecked, biases can also shape a company or industry’s culture and norms, says Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design. Gino recommends managers look into providing workers with education and training on the topic.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. That can come from case studies, meeting role models, learning-by-doing on course projects, and seeing peers take the plunge.” Cofounders are crucial.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result can be a culture of economy and quality that is very hard to replicate in the prevailing fee-for-service environment, where health professionals get rewarded for the volume rather than the value of services.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

In my forthcoming book, Simply Brilliant , I study game-changing leaders who have done extraordinary things in pretty ordinary fields, from retail banking to fast-food joints. A grand staircase maneuvers down the center of the seven-story garage, creating the elegant aura of a European train station.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Mandating unconscious-bias training sessions to all managers, as Google has done, isn’t enough. Let’s hope that other companies can learn from the list of case studies now stretching and screeching across the internet (Google, Uber, Fox News, and so on). Sell the “why.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Once you have a sense of the aspiring manager’s interest level and past experience, you need to get a handle on her “understanding of the organization—its culture, its needs, and where she thinks it’s going,” says Ranieri. The task involved building a custom training program for the team he might one day manage.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Case Study #1: Be positive, and distance yourself from distractions when necessary. Case Study #2: Develop ground rules and find a way to quiet your brain. “It’s an exercise in training your brain to tune out background noise. Suffer in silence. I find it very helpful for quieting my mind.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

” The experience might, for instance, “cause you to lose your train of thought” or “suppress what you originally planned to communicate.” ” These contracts work best in workplaces that have a relatively strong, supportive culture to begin with. Say something like: “You seem distracted.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

“We live in a culture where work demands and deserves our undivided allegiance,” she says. For people trying to break an addiction to work, mindfulness training can therefore be “extremely valuable,” according to Friedman. Case Study #1: Seek encouragement and reset your colleagues’ expectations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

More training? “Does he require more training ? Case Study #1: Adjust your management style and focus on peer coaching. “It was really important to establish a feedback culture,” he says. Case Study #2: Empower your employees and offer positive feedback. For example, Connect.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

“Give her training responsibilities,” she adds. Case Study #1: Encourage your star to seek out learning opportunities both inside and outside your organization. And regular employee feedback is part of the Betterment culture. . “Give her discretion in how she does the work.” Hoard talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Do you need more training or more support?’” Create a culture that values productivity over hours worked by openly praising strong performance. Case Study #1: Create a culture where team members help each other and collaborate. ’” Probe a little. Don’t.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Case Study #1: Use “radical candor” and look for ways to challenge your employee. A few years ago, he hired a new sales rep, we’ll call him Tom, who was a “great cultural fit and put up solid — but not the best — numbers.” ” Case Study #2: Understand what matters to your employees.

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