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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Moreover, 32% of departments in tech companies and others are redesigning functions using AI to streamline for versatility and figuring out how to best integrate the experiences gathered from worker feedback and innovation. If people analytics does not involve ethical consideration then it could expose workers to increased risks and stress.

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Build a ‘Quick and Nimble’ Culture

Harvard Business Review

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

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What A.G. Lafley's Return Means for P&G

Harvard Business Review

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business Review

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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How Our Community Designed a Better Hospital

Harvard Business Review

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Restructuring the process. Visiting a hospital is stressful enough — visitors don’t also need to get lost. UT Southwestern’s president, Daniel K.

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Life After the Death of a Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Did departmental restructuring cause too much stress? After forcing Nardelli out in 2007, founder Bernie Marcus got the company back on the competing-by-boosting-margins-through-innovation road. It''s an awkward and difficult conversation. Second, "We are terrible." And what about the coworker''s private life?

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Larry Summers on What Business Can Do to Save the Middle Class

Harvard Business Review

That means strengthening regulation where some businesses are putting competitive pressure on others by skimping on safety, by denying workers basic benefits, or by operating with dangerous degrees of leverage. That means cracking down on tax shelters that give some businesses a competitive advantage.

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