Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. Instill discipline.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Write a captivating summary, do not use an objective, to showcase your strategic leadership abilities and implementation successes. We know you have impressive, measurable achievements, but don’t let the scientific metrics outweigh your business results and human capital accomplishments. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Google your name periodically.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

One team member, a no-nonsense American with a Bain Capital pedigree, thinks the answer is obvious: North America Human Resources. I quickly establish my prerogatives as interloper, but guide the team in creating ground rules they will buy into—and absorb into their own leadership repertoire. Suddenly, a snag.

Team 8

Team Argyris Teamwork Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Roivant’s second innovation initiative was to forcefully inject an openness to fresh thinking and outside practices.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company. When was the last time you overrode your human-resources systems to reward them? Do you have a way of regularly identifying and celebrating them?

Company 11

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Unfortunately for the authors, one of the star companies in their star-struck book was Enron, whose top brass boasted about the ambitious, aggressive, sharp-elbowed individualists who populated its ranks. It's worth paying attention to how Google responds to this very human challenge to its long-term strategic leadership.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Now Stefan was the head of the consultancy's South Asia and Middle East business, and Caroline was its global human resources director. credentials and a sharp business sense. No one on the leadership team wanted the man responsible for that to go anywhere. Caroline continued, "The numbers look good. equal as partners.

Case Study 9

Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 9