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. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Rehearse your pitch.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

As McKinsey put it in a recent report: “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).”

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

If we want to hire sharp people in our organizations, we need to market to them. Unfortunately, too many HR chiefs and hiring managers labor under the delusion that sharp and switched-on people are dying to apply for their jobs, even when they're not. The company has a need. This is the opposite of marketing.

Sharpe 9

Sharpe Marketing Audience Process 9

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. Our management meetings became long report-outs of all these 10-step programs, and we stopped talking about the customer or what we were trying to do to change our industry.

Company 11

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 11

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. A few months later, the business took a sharp downturn due to unexpected economic head winds. Talent management' Suddenly, a snag. Where will this designated miracle worker report?

Team 8

Team Argyris Teamwork Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. HR executives are finding health care planning to be as high on their list of priorities as talent management. Can we really do that in this environment?".

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Sunita Malhotra, the managing director of People Insights, a coaching and consulting firm based in Belgium, has earned the nickname "feedback monster." Thanks to a formative experience in her teens (a friend told her that her tone of voice was too sharp), she now goes out of her way to solicit opinions from colleagues and subordinates. "I

360-Degree Feedback 17

360-Degree Feedback How To Construction Case Study 17

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

APRIL 26, 2012

This was usually the best part of her week — visiting one of her company's supermarkets, talking to the store manager, walking through the aisles, watching the employees interact with the customers. Not you, not me, not the store managers, not the cashiers, not anyone.". And all employees received management training.

Case Study 13

Case Study Price Policies Retail 13

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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. Vijay Kumar, the India office managing partner, and Aparna Nayak, his second in command, always assured Stefan that things were fine and reminded him of their growth figures.

Case Study 9

Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 9

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This study also found a sharp drop-off in employer interest for candidates with around six months of unemployment, but it also found that recently unemployed candidates with no relevant experience for the position were more likely to get employer interest than were those with relevant experience who were unemployed for six months or more.

Long-term 9

Long-term Human Resources Sharpe Sample 9