Tom Spencer

JANUARY 19, 2019

With costs like these and with over 83% of executives claiming that talent is the number one priority for their organisation (LinkedIn Talent Solutions 2017), employee turnover is an important issue. LinkedIn Talent Solutions (2016). Image: Modire. References: Boushey,H., Retreived from: [link].

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2017

The second common problem of fast-growing companies is revenue growing faster than talent. Uber needs a viable talent plan that matches its growth aspirations to its talent supply in order to have a chance of maintaining momentum. Lost voices from the front line is the third major challenge we found.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Companies with a strong sustainability program and culture attract and retain better talent who desire a sense of purpose and contribution to a greater good. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4 million pounds of waste from landfills and saving more than 2.2

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

” In June 2016, the EEOC issued a first-of-its-kind report on harassment in the workplace. Because almost 70% of harassment incidents are never reported to the employer, talented and highly-skilled employees may leave without employers knowing that their business has suffered as a result of workplace harassment.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. This meant he was being groomed for ascendance.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. .” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea to do this study and connections with some of the CEOs came from a presentation I gave at the 2016 Billie Jean King Leadership initiative symposium. And Marc Benioff of Salesforce said, “Diversity is an important part of our culture of equality.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Employers who exclude class from discussions about diversity and inclusion risk losing or alienating talented employees. Here are some examples of common workplace systems and processes that can get tainted by class-based bias: Hiring, Onboarding, and Culture Fit. What is culture fit?

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Strategy+Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Strategy&'s 2016 study of chief digital officers (CDOs), which analyzed the presence of such leaders among the world's 2,500 largest public companies, revealed that 19 percent of these companies have now designated an executive to lead their digital agenda. This is up from just 6 percent of companies in the 2015 study.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Even large digital natives such as Amazon and Google have turned to companies and talent outside their confines to beef up their AI skills.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. The next step was to figure out a strategy to reach these goals, and, more broadly, to ensure a culture of belonging and managerial competence in inclusion.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

Chef Massimo Bottura likewise upended convention in 1995 when he opened his restaurant, Osteria Francescana, in Modena, Italy, and started serving radically reinvented Italian dishes in a culture that placed a premium on tradition. Their menu is always evolving and so are their talents. His daring proved no flash in the pan.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. Digital Talent Will Be in Shorter Supply. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries. billion as compared to $4.4

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ralph Terrazas, chief of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD), agrees: “[We] will provide a higher level of service to the communities we serve when the people of that department respect the culture, language and beliefs of the people within that community.” In 2016, only 4% of emergency calls to which U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. I spoke with BirchBox’ s VP of People and Culture, Melissa Enbar. This is not news.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. By 2016, clients dreaded the disruptive monthly releases such that one large client had to deploy a 70-person crisis management team to manage the fallout of each monthly release.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

Improved retention of top talent. According to a 2016 Workplace Boredom Study , bored employees are more than twice as likely to leave a company. Ability to leverage institutional knowledge and culture fit. Rotating your employees into new roles keeps them challenged and learning, and therefore, more likely to stay.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. billion in 2016 for Lore’s company in its increasingly desperate efforts to more effectively compete against Amazon. Consider Jet.com founder Marc Lore: Walmart paid $3.3 ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In her pioneering research on Silicon Valley’s advantage over Route 128 circa 1990, AnnaLee Saxenian identified some of the major differentiators, from cultural factors to state-level policies. Silicon Valley benefited from a more free-wheeling, less hierarchical, and more risk-taking culture than New England.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One young female banker we interviewed for our 2016 report “Women in Financial Services” even told us, “I came into my career in financial services with aspirations to make it to the top. Responses revealed a culture that has changed surprisingly little over the last 30 years.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. November 2016). But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. The word “digital” used to mean your company’s investments in IT, and perhaps social media readiness, but now it’s bigger, touching on your company’s overall culture. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 1, 2023

This article provides insights into the dark side of personality, six workplace talent management countermeasures, and what to do if you work with or for someone with a dark personality. Here are a few proven talent management suggestions to counter dark personality behaviors in the workplace. Is the same true for leaders?

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

The rise of — and demand for — contractors is starting to rewrite the rules of talent. While you’ll find the biggest supply of contractor talent — and the highest demand — in New York City and San Francisco, some cities have a larger supply along with a relatively low demand.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) of employment in those occupations in 2016. of the digital workforce in 2016. What might that look like?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

When Joe Whittinghill came into his role as general manager for talent, learning, and insight at Microsoft, the tech giant’s leadership model was characteristically thorough. Today those leadership principles, which premiered in mid-2016, have spread across the company. Vincent Tsui. “They were exhaustive.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

How We Define “Fit” Companies turn down talented people every day when the fit isn’t right. According to the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Report 2016 , 60% of recruiters say culture fit is of utmost importance in hiring decisions. Don’t leave your company culture and employee fit to chance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

We have found that in many companies throughout the country, Asian-related programs are geared toward cultural inclusion, not management diversity. of the federal professional workforce in 2016 , they are only 4.4% These issues aren’t confined to the tech industry. of the workforce at the highest federal level.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

When I graduated college in the 1970s, I believed that women would quickly achieve parity at all levels of professional life now that we had “arrived” — I viewed the lack of women at the top as more of a “pipeline” problem, not a cultural one. ” Unfortunately, she was acting rationally.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Yet, Intel Security’s 2016 Report states that among companies experiencing data breaches over the past few years, insiders were responsible for 43% of data loss, half of which was intentional and malicious. As Forrester’s July 2016 Hunting Insider Threats report states, “Insiders are people, not computers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of course, it takes plenty of talented, creative people to build these products. During 2016, self-driving cars by major international car manufacturers improved by roughly a third. This is hard because it often runs counter to an engineering culture that has long championed human ingenuity. Take self-driving cars as an example.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. In recent years, the government has also launched a number of programs aimed at cultivating scientific talent. Part also lies in aspects of the Chinese socio-cultural context such as the legacy of rote learning and respect for hierarchy.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The firm is headquartered in New York and holds the #20 position in Vault’s top consulting firm rankings for 2016. BUCK CONSULTANTS CULTURE . With 46 offices in 12 countries, Buck Consultants is recognized as one of the largest HR consulting firms in the U.S. and the world). BUCK CONSULTANTS KEY STATS.

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