Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

Moreover, many family firms profit from their “family-like” culture and their close relationships with a handful of partners, from suppliers to customers, who can help these firms develop their creative ideas, products, and processes. Use the family firm’s culture to empower employees.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As one physician CEO we interviewed for our study confessed, “If you show me a prototype, I can say, ‘Well, you could do this better.’ Build a culture in which you and others feel free to acknowledge not only what you know but also what you do not know. Be open about what you do not know.

Engineering 28

Engineering Study Productivity Guidelines 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. You always want to do interviews with them. Then a focus group is really important to set the guidelines and the parameters.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Knowing this, we were able to distill a set of guidelines for prospective authors that encouraged them to avoid these common pitfalls. If I were giving bad news to someone I’d interviewed for a job, I might tweak it a bit, but the basic format would stay the same: [Their name], Thanks for making the time to talk with me last week.

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A study conducted by author John Izzo found what’s intuitively obvious: If you want your workers to take a more active role in your workplace culture, you need to listen to what they say. Let’s form an interview team, then after the interviews let me know what you think, and I’ll make the final decision.” “I Mind blown, right?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. The first is that lean startup goes against the cultural grain for most companies, and it can threaten the authority of decision-makers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

People need to understand the new cultural, organizational, and operational values they are being asked to embrace. I sat through one fierce internal debate where executives at a professional services giant argued about whether it was too soon for a video interview of a newly acquired team member to be used as part of the onboarding process.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

In 1998, the Supreme Court — citing the 1980 EEOC guidelines — explicitly addressed the issue of anti-harassment policies and complaint procedures in the Faragher v. Perhaps the most important finding in the EEOC report is that workplace culture can have an enormous impact on the prevalence of harassment.

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