Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

Symptoms of a rush into leadership development 1 : No clear concept of what leadership is and how it relates to management and the roles that the people will fill with and without leadership accountability. Identification of needed accountability and authority of the organizations managers and employees.

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Leadership Development Skills Development Leadership 154

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With communications now going digital, the old- fashioned way of sending printed invites has given way to e-mail ones. Go into the holiday party knowing it’s a professional environment,” advises a human resource expert. Socialise mingle with the management and colleagues. It is important to get the invitations off first.

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Hotels Survey Outsourcing Fashion 98

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you are the owner of a women’s clothing line or the Editor in Chief of a woman’s fashion publication and you are interested in getting on The Early Show to discuss spring and summer fashion trends, tailor your pitch to meet the news of that specific audience – (educated, sophisticated, female oriented).

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

In an easy to read story-telling fashion, the author sticks to his main topic – but in very short order, he identifies the critical issues leaders should be communicating and why. I was wrong. Mr. Murray has offered up far more than he promised.

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Fashion Crisis Audience Entrepreneur 197

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 19, 2016

goals so that you can implement it in a timely fashion. If you are presenting, make this part of the agenda. If you are a participant, force the information that you are receiving into S.M.A.R.T. Exercise A daily routine of exercise makes a person feel good.

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Cost Center Short-term Fashion Team Building 100

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. I’m not referring to the passing of our own family members, friends and coworkers, but the tragic deaths of the celebrities, socialites and business moguls that we’ve known and loved (or not). The brilliant writer, J.D.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This post is written for the everyday manager, HR manager, coach, or consultant that doesn’t have the time or interest to learn about validation, reliability, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation coefficients, and adverse impact. However, you’re using assessments, and you know just enough to be dangerous.

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Development Benchmarking Bottom-up McCarthy 74

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! Take a class, attend a seminar, learn a new skill or volunteer for a favorite cause.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Specifically, according to a human resources manager, dreadlocks “tend to get messy;” therefore, the hairstyle violated the company’s requirement that all employees project “a professional and businesslike image.” Initially, elite men wore these suits as dressy lounging attire.

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Class Fashion Insurance Document 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. ” In contrast, the word has now become fashionable to describe what are really networks , as in the “business community”—”people with common interests [but] not common values, history, or memory.” Is crowdfunding in this global village quite the same?

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Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

He finally became a key account manager for one of our biggest clients. For instance, one participant may need an international assignment because he or she has never experienced another culture, while another participant may need a shop-floor experience so that he or she learns to manage a large group of people.

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Training 360-Degree Feedback Participative Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

It originates from the old-fashioned aversive interview approach of the 1950s and 1960s, designed to make the candidate uncomfortable in order to gauge how he handles pressure. And still, the hiring manager's response was not pretty. We already knew about his particularly verbose style of communicating from earlier in the interview.

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How To Career Fashion Human Resources 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

We also find regional knowledge out of fashion in business schools, a critical shortcoming that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is addressing in a new program called the African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP), which began just last month.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Procurement of goods and services is at the heart of good business practice. It is a costly mistake.

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Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You use old-fashioned search techniques. For example, when Andy started his job search as a senior manager in marketing for a major nonprofit, he hadn’t taken the time to create a compelling online presence for himself – he didn’t think he needed to. Career planning Job search Managing yourself' She got the change immediately.

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Bottom-up Seminar Career Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations. Functions such as human resources can use self-service digital platforms and intranets to provide consistency on overarching issues while regional managers control decisions such as hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Certainly it is a world in which managers talk solemnly about their "engagement" efforts. They give new life to the old-fashioned notion that good work gives us good societies. They are expressing overwhelming enthusiasm and pride in taking part in something positive and important. So what can the corporate world learn from all this?

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Pharmaceuticals Wilde Fashion Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) Senior management should establish criteria for choosing the model cell. The expansion, which took three years and affected several hundred beds, required a full-time manager with assistance from the education department and human resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Manage the closure or layoff like a project. Use the techniques of conventional project management. Set the tone. The leader should take personal responsibility for the organization’s behavior.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 15, 2019

Sigmund Freud himself identified love and work as the cornerstones of humanness. But drop the L word at the office and minds go to garish affairs, sobbing in the bathroom, and memos from the human resources. The HR Digest: The UK fashion retailer said hugs are “part of Ted Baker’s culture, but are absolutely not insisted upon.”

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Fashion Policies Absenteeism Industry 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. They should set measures and goals together at the beginning of the work, and each entity should be held responsible for the outcomes achieved.

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Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

They can help make sense of the data and help all the players track progress in timely fashion. With their access to data and expertise in analytics, health plans can be constructive players in the creation of the kind of market we have described.

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Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. Strategic alignment is the responsibility of an organization’s top executives versus those in charge of marketing, manufacturing, human resources, or other functions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. How do you manage the evolution of your company’s culture, and hold on to what makes you great, even as you change and grow? Culture of opportunity.

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