Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Read on to learn more.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

Leadership has developed a strategy, sometimes over months, and knows it in and out. This sounds obvious, yet is critical to understand: Just because you develop an ambitious strategy doesn't mean you change the way your organization operates. How good am I in acquiring and onboarding new talent when needed?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Empower your teams to operate more efficiently and effectively and break down silos that impede open communication and collaboration.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. In the world of scalable efficiency, the focus was on documenting in great detail the actions that should be taken in addressing specific situations. Skills versus capabilities.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Making sure pricing and daily rates are crystal clear and documented before the project begins. . Furthermore, describe your own working environment and ask them how they would operate in such a situation. A few typical mistakes we often see: . Taking for granted that everyone’s expectations are aligned without clarifying. .

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style. link] Leadership creates difficult choices.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

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. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

When I was an organizational development consultant for Disney, I worked with the Imagineers and Operators. The Operators viewed Imagineers as people who had their heads in the sky, and Imagineers viewed Operators as so focused on day to day that they couldn't see the big picture. Be clear about who you are trying to develop.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The negative impact of colorblindness on organizations and individual employees has been well documented. ERGs drive business goals by improving customer insights, increasing employee engagement, and supporting talent development. Zimmer has also committed to attending at least one ERG general membership meeting per quarter.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. The opposite is also true.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Hence I entered consulting. ” Pure humor.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Building Empathy.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants now operates out of multiple offices globally with a clientele that includes 45% of Fortune 100 companies. Then, in 2010, Xerox acquired ACS for $6.4B, making Buck a Xerox company and a global leader in HR solutions. BUCK CONSULTANTS ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas. Communication. Compensation. HR technology. Administration.

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QEmploy

JUNE 28, 2019

Policies that contribute to workforce equity and inclusion create equal opportunity for all employees and a diverse talent acquisition as a result. First of all, they were rated on their Workforce Protection , meaning their policies include sexual orientation and gender identity for all operations. Why Consulting? ].

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. ” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Some 55% of executives cite the problem of revenue growing faster than talent: The company grows so quickly that it has trouble attracting the quality and amount of talent that it needs. Do we have a talent plan to match our growth plan? The other three barriers described in our book underscore the challenge. How do we know?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2018

The numbers of women and people of color in leadership roles are still staggeringly low across industries. Also well documented are the high rates of turnover for women, especially women of color. Prescriptive stereotypes also operate by race. We call them office housework. Office Housework vs. Glamour Work.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

But that’s more a leadership challenge than a technical issue. The harder question is: Who’s going to “own” this digital coevolution of talent and technology, and sustainably steer it to success? The document typically describes use cases and scenarios to illustrate its points.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Being able to recruit globally is supposed to help tech powerhouses like Facebook and Amazon find the talent they need. A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S. a competitive edge in the global war for tech talent.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

ERP software was originally created as a cure for the Y2K problem, also called the Millennium Bug, which affected both the digital and non-digital documentation and data storage systems - the anticipation of Y2K drove the ERP boom in the 90s. Public Sector Practice. Industries. If an industry is big, it’s on PwC’s list.

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Henman Performance Executive

JUNE 17, 2011

CIA documents indicate they gave a total of 40 briefings for lawmakers over a period of several years on the question of waterboarding. Leona Helsmley, a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor, had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname “Queen of Mean.” Talent Management.

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