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How To Sustain Change: Keeping The Momentum Going After The Training Ends

Nash Consulting

Whether it’s how you evaluate performance, reward effort, or promote talent, every system should reinforce the change. From Idea to Action: Rethink your performance metrics to reflect new priorities. Integrate Change into Every System True change is more than skin deep—it seeps into every system and process.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. Within the country, there are large — and often underestimated — regional differences in language, culture, talent, infrastructure, and wealth, all of which lead to wide variations in business landscapes.

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What It Will Take to Keep Women from Leaving STEM

Harvard Business

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. But what happens as people’s career trajectories progress?

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Create small, talent-rich teams working outside the hierarchy to address your most important priorities.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business

Pay transparency thrives in organizations that abandon pay for performance; it struggles in environments where rewards are linked to subjective metrics. The other group consisted of production employees operating in a factory setting. Of course, rewarding these factors will demotivate and drive away the talent you would like to keep.