Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Empowering talent. Firms are also able to source talent with some help from AI solutions, while cloud-based collaboration tools mean they’re not limited to hiring local candidates. Technology Must Become a True Partner Deloitte analysts advise firms to strike a balance between talent and technology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2021

Four strategies to make sure you’re measuring what matters.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sadly, our organizational culture assessment data found that most employees do not understand or appreciate what their talent development organizations have to offer to build their skills, knowledge, and careers. A key ingredient to effective change management is meeting people where they are. That is a shame because learning matters.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Vincent Tsui for HBR. And yet progress in HR analytics has been glacially slow.

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Metrics Analysis Data Talent 41

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this article, we will focus mostly on firms, but with some brief commentary on sectors and cities at the end. To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To

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Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 43

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. Only 11% of business leaders trust HR to use data to anticipate and help them fill their talent needs. Map talent analytics to business outcomes. Implement leadership planning models.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

An interesting title of an article about how the author helps his company’s clients, isn’t it? In fact, I start out speaking engagements on buying a business by telling the audience (usually management and executive level people0 there’s a good chance it’s not for them. Acquire great talent. The bigger you are…the better.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. However, they do not possess the infrastructure or talent pool to ward off potential competition.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. This article explains the role of culture in M&As, cross-cultural issues, and the proven practices of creating a shared culture intentionally. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Don’t walk away.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

When a manager reads through resumes of job applicants, she is implicitly trying to predict which applicants will perform well in the job and which won’t. Our point is much simpler – algorithms are an important decision aid for managers looking to make hiring and promotion decisions. Other Interests?).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Over time, those talented women with their PhD in STEM start to drop out of technical and industrial careers. By the time careers reach leadership levels, as few as 15% of those talented women remain, according to some estimates. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

Although people stated that training was more important than talent, their ratings showed that they preferred the natural over the striver. Prior reviews have found that effort and experience are highly valued in management. The profiles were randomly generated, so any potential alignment between objective metrics (e.g.,

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Business leaders began to ask hard questions about outcomes, metrics, and the value of all these programs.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

A recent New York Times article on how Uber is using various insights from behavioral economics to push, or nudge, its drivers to pick up more fares — sometimes with little benefit to them — has generated quite a bit of criticism of Uber. It’s just one of several stories of late that have cast the company in a poor light.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

The self-described “statheads” have the chance-of-a-lifetime opportunity to test out their own Moneyball -style theories when the management team and owners of the Stompers invited them to run operations as part of a learning experience and team promotion. We had no way to do that consistently for managers and coaches.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

A couple of the biggest challenges leaders will continue to face in the future are retaining top talent and creating inclusive workplaces that bring out the best in all employees. Leadership books, articles, and assessments can enable you to examine a particular situation from different points of view, supporting critical reflection.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. This is also true of executives.

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Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Susan Helper and Mari Sako offer an interesting perspective on Chandler’s research here: Management Innovation in Supply Chain: Appreciating Chandler in the Twenty-first Century. The article goes on to highlight the advantages Toyota gained by sharing resources (suppliers) with other, interdependent industry players. Karen Duvall.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 34

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly. How do they do it?

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Enterprise 48

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team.

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Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the organization, and they want to identify high performers and potential leaders along the way. The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs.

Leadership 41

Leadership Talent Software Deloitte 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

” We don’t want to disappoint our bosses, colleagues, families, or friends, so we say “yes” as often as we can manage. This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today. PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Take Wells Fargo as an example: Managers were rewarded for the number of accounts they opened and managed. Creating an Ethical Workplace.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 39

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Also – scroll down to the end of the article and see what came out of our conversation just 3 weeks after we talked! I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. So that’s where I kind of stumbled on management consulting and I started learning more and more about it. Yeah, sure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. Now is the time to identify exceptional talent by looking outside of the supply chain. What does that mean for the supply chain workforce?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The CEOs raised a variety of reasons for caring about diversity—the most common being that they believed greater diversity leads to greater diversity of thought, to the ability to attract and retain top talent, and to a better understanding of their customer base. Foster diversity throughout the organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. How talent management is changing. We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Insight Center.

Leadership 44

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 44

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Records managers: They are the curators of business records, both physical and digital. IT technology and process experts: They understand the nature of the data flow and operational processes. Seek creativity and curiosity.

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