HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! There wasn’t a lot of direct customer interaction, and innovation was hindered by this schedule. Our business plateaued and growth stalled.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Mercer knows 60 commands that include turning on lights and opening doors. Shea‘s first book began as several entries in her diary that her mother Megan discovered. But getting a book to market and then publicizing it is no easy task; especially with no extra money to support this venture.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 23, 2012

I reviewed Seth’s blog last year as well apart from doing “one-question interview and review” for his books “ Linchpin ” and “ Poke the Box ”. However, her blog focuses on topics that relate to the workplace, not just human resources. However, her blog focuses on topics that relate to the workplace, not just human resources.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things is a film following two men, who have titled themselves “The Minimalists,” on a 10-month tour across America promoting their book Everything that Remains. Released in 2016, this documentary directed by Matt D’Avella captures the lives of Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

After reading his book Culture Spark , I reached out to talk about his work and his research. “If You share six myths about culture in your book. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Be open and honest. Walk the talk.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s what Narayana Health (NH) did in 2014 by opening a hospital in the Cayman Islands — Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) — which was close to America but outside its regulatory ambit. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

Peter Economy’s book, Wait, I’m the Boss?!? , If you don’t know him, Peter is a bestselling business book author and ghostwriter with more than 100 books to his credit. Because they are more innovative than companies with management teams that are not diverse. is exactly that: a roadmap and guidebook for new leaders.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

You open the door and see a burst of light. No, just a small fire burning in the center of an open courtyard. Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years.

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 30, 2010

Here is an excerpt paraphrased in part from Mrs. Hesselbein's personal book Hesselbein on Leadership. We have a wonderful new exhibit just opening, being showcased at our KNOWLEDGE GALLERY and WOMEN's GALLERY at the Global Dialogue Center LEADERSHIP by Example: A Tribute to Frances Hesselbein. Special Preview.

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 6, 2010

She flew in, opened the windows to let the sunshine in, saying. Debbe Kennedy founder, Global Dialogue Center home of Women in the Lead author, Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance ** 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Winner** Bronze - Human Resources and Employee Training.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 27, 2012

The opening reviews and quotations in the front of How to Be Exceptional tells the reader he or she is holding a revolutionary leadership book with a radical new approach. Parts One and Two are the core of this book. The evidence for what needs to change and why is growing every day.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 27, 2012

The opening reviews and quotations in the front of How to Be Exceptional tells the reader he or she is holding a revolutionary leadership book with a radical new approach. Parts One and Two are the core of this book. The evidence for what needs to change and why is growing every day.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Jeff Kortes presents the key components of retention in a practical, ‘no nonsense’ book that is easy to read and entertaining. Kortes’ andecdotes, common sense tips and ‘no nonsense notes’ make the book easy to follow and remember. Keep your door open 80% of the time. Treat Everyone with Respect Always!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Any professional should have antennae open for business every time you answer the phone, e-mail, or walk out the door. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Additionally know what you have to trade.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. That’s when Airbnb came calling. Part of my job was to just observe.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

That’s how this book came into being…there was no executive encyclopedia for those to make it long-term. Planning is the thread woven through this book, and it is the key to the future. Encouraging an organizational and management culture that promotes innovation, learning, accountability, and transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Most corporate buildings don't do a good job of supporting collaboration, brainstorming, and innovative work methods. They tend to be dominated by cubicles or offices which are suited for individual work, or by hard-to-book conference rooms that teams can use but only for short periods of time. The space facilitates this.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. Yet leaders have turned change from exhausting to exhilarating by asking employees to open their imaginations. That’s an appalling finding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

He and other senior leaders gathered for two days with human resources and the Lilly Women’s Network, one of our employee resource groups, to brainstorm solutions to barriers uncovered in the research. Be an open book. This was not “just” an HR issue — it was a business issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. Instead, IBM opened the APIs to Watson (there are now about 35 of them, with more being created all the time) and allowed third parties to use them for cognitive service applications.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The opening sentence was “When Mark E. The book is all about the challenge of finding something that works really well in some corner of your world, and getting it to spread much further (or, for shorthand, “the Problem of More” ). On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. Webb’s hardcore perspective poses an existential challenge to most organizations’ views of human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Mark might also have noticed that Jennifer continuously received messages from numerous global and local LinkedIn groups, was a member of a local choir, and had recently started a book club with like-minded friends. In 2010, Everis Initiatives received the seventh annual Expansion and Employment Award for Innovation in Human Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. Greenery isn’t just an air-freshener that’s pleasant to look at, it can actually significantly boost employee well-being, reduce stress, enhance innovative potential, and boost a sense of connection.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joan Williams, a law professor and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, says that most large organizations have a policy on the books, but it's rarely set in stone. However, "HR is often reluctant to deviate from what's in print," says Rousseau.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

It opens with a young woman frantically texting on her iPhone, approaching her boss and asking for a promotion. A dizzying array of books, seminars, and articles such as Ties to Tattoos and “Dude, What’s My Job? Saturday Night Live recently featured a sketch poking fun at Millennials. She replies, “Three days.”

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. This concept of service that [Outward Bound founder] Kurt Hahn felt was so important,” said Laura Kohler, senior vice president of human resources, stewardship, and sustainability for Kohler Co.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

So marketers collaborated with IT to design an iPad application that allowed salespeople to enter their book of business and receive detailed customer profiles with background on important customer decision-makers and priorities, as well as status updates and other useful information. “If

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. Consulting opened my eyes to the glaring and repeated errors made by dwellers of the C-suite and their understudies. As marketers well know, unfilled needs create opportunities to meet the need.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

In fact, c hange is one of the most proliferated subjects in blogs, books, and social media chats. I consider Google a tier-one innovator. You “fix brands before they break” with innovations that add value and fortify the bran d’ s raison d’être. Without change, stagnation sets in.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

For all the innovation of the Digital Age, business management remains wired to the rusting framework of the Industrial Age. There is a human resources person or HR department. The term “human resources” speaks volumes. Today, the “CEO System” dominates the business psyche, manner, and method.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A typical narrative is the one offered by Suffragette , a powerful movie opening this month in the US after a successful UK launch. In the West, the most powerful leaders on gender are usually innovators; those most potently pushing other 21 st century agendas: from sustainability and globalization to governance and deep democracy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Office doors, once open, are closed. Innovation is something other companies do. ” For more on how to thrive in a complex business world that keeps getting bigger, check out my new book and download a free chapter at www.dolessbetter.ca. Absentee leadership. Lack of vision. High employee turnover. Mounting inventory.

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