Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? ” Pay close attention to the kinds of people you’re meeting. Case Study #1: Talk to outside sources and observe culture firsthand.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

Combine that with the sobering fact that buyers report that over three-quarters of solution sellers do not clearly understand their key issues, are unclear how they can add meaningful value, and are not well prepared to answer questions or to share relevant case studies to substantiate what sets them apart.

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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. Create Customer Sightlines. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? First, any business case hinges on the ability to translate meaning, as an abstraction, into dollars. Additional organizational value comes in the form of retained talent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting.

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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.” If you believe the candidate has the potential and talent to lead, help her develop. Don’t.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

Having a supremely talented employee on your team is a boss’s dream. The antidote to this problem is “ classic talent development ,” Shapiro says. “But you can’t hoard talent.” Hoard talent. And regular employee feedback is part of the Betterment culture. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Leaders need to acknowledge this — and meet people where they actually are. An alternative approach I’ve seen work is to create mentoring and coaching programs for a strategically balanced group of high-potential talent that includes the in-group. Gender balance is not a generally accepted goal.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Without a purposeful plan, Davey says that “managers too often do what’s easy in the short-term and ask the most talented person” to do the hard work. This exercise also helps you discover any gaps in talent—“You might have 10 outfielders and no one at first base,” says Morgenstern. Don’t.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

When a bright, talented employee is eager to move up but isn’t quite equipped to do so, one of the most powerful things you can say is, “‘I believe in you’ — if you genuinely mean it, of course,” Weintraub says. Case Study #1: Use “radical candor” and look for ways to challenge your employee.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Reporting to an indecisive boss is an unquestionably “challenging and frustrating situation,” says Sydney Finkelstein, the Director of the Leadership Center at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of the book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” “You have a new job, new office, and all sorts of new people to meet; your spouse has been dropped in the middle of nowhere and knows no one.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Research by Alexander Czopp, the director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University, and his colleagues show that there is a “discrepancy between what people predict they would do and what they actually do.” Case Study #1: Focus on your reaction. Case Study #2: Don’t accuse.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization. “Try to understand the type of culture that this candidate has worked in and her ability to learn and adapt to a new ones,” he says. “There are no right or wrong answers,” he says.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. As is so often the case, the smallest changes can have the biggest impact. It also motivates colleagues to emulate their peers to have an opportunity to be mentioned by leadership in the next all hands meeting.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. The harder question is: Who’s going to “own” this digital coevolution of talent and technology, and sustainably steer it to success?

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