The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

Short-term 114

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 114

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. The people that we coach (in agreement with their managers, if they are not the CEO) work with us to determine desired leadership behavior. 3) Collect feedback. References.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

It’s interesting that there’s a book designed to teach managers how to keep the BaBs that they hired. In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. For all the hype that surrounds stars, human resources experts have rarely studied their performance over time.

Short-term 57

Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

Engineering 15

Engineering Class Software Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

Skills 9

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. After all, the fixed overheads are already in place.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

The few who do are often confronted with dismissive complaint handlers who treat their experiences as interpersonal problems or instances of poor management rather than sexual harassment. In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments.

Policies 8

Policies Human Resources Compliance Guidelines 8