Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives to be released in June 2016
Steve Shu Consulting
APRIL 15, 2016
My new book, Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives , will be released in June 2016.
How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders
Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2018
workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. American Express.
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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders
Epicflow
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
This is almost 10% higher than in 2016. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. Management at HHI has developed an improvement plan with quality and technology as their top priorities. billion in revenue by 2022.
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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2023
A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.
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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting
Management Consulted
APRIL 20, 2016
With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S In fact, every student is required to come up with a personal leadership development program. Fuqua’s Class of 2016 was just as impressive, garnering 20 internships at Deloitte, 11 at BCG, 9 at McKinsey, and 8 at Bain. The post 2016 Top 10 U.S.
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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did
Harvard Business
MAY 4, 2018
In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Run more experiments.
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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the July-August 2016 Issue
Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2016
“Hey, look at this: After only a month, the idea that we spent the past two years developing has attracted $10 on Kickstarter.” “I wish you wouldn’t pester me with things I can easily ignore in an email.” ” P.C. ” Christopher Burke.
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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project
Successful Independent Consulting
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The short answer: business development. The long answer: diligent business development that built a relationship over time. I've written about this before, that business development = relationship development , but let’s walk through the steps I took to foster this half-million-dollar contract. (If I hope all is well.
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If You're a SME Make Extra Money with GLG
Successful Independent Consulting
JULY 16, 2019
I didn’t upload a résumé and it said I’ve only been an independent consultant since 2016, although I’ve worked as one since 2004.) The application lets you link to your LinkedIn profile, but it’s best to upload a current résumé so your work history pre-populates. (I Then you can log in and update your profile.
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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting
Tom Spencer
APRIL 6, 2019
Over time, it has become a necessity for the consulting industry to develop frameworks to address critical business problems with the help of big data. The first company to identify emerging demand trends and tailor its operations to delivery can quickly establish itself as the go-to source for particular goods or services” ( EY, 2016 ).
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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results
Rick Conlow
AUGUST 4, 2021
In addition, research by Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu (2016) showed an additional 12% gain in outcomes beyond other studies. They create winning cultures through authenticity, teamwork, and personal development. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website.
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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 30, 2016
At the start of 2016, I asked myself one question: “How can I make achieving my professional growth goals effortless?” Many people fail on their professional development goals for the year because they take on a lot of goals — goals that they feel they “should” do but ultimately don’t energize them.
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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization
Epicflow
JUNE 10, 2022
developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g., Step 4: Developing risk response strategies. As we’ve mentioned before, developing products in the aerospace sector is guided by the AS9100 quality management system, where risk management is given a particular emphasis. What are the main steps in this process? Roseke, Bernie.
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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?
Harvard Business
MAY 25, 2017
On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. This proved to be a step too far for some shareholders, precipitating their revolt in November 2016. I recommend using it in developing a corporate performance scorecard.
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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the September 2016 Issue
Harvard Business
AUGUST 11, 2016
Here’s the winning caption: “Well, I guess it’s one way to develop a can-can do attitude.” And congratulations to our September caption contest winner, Mike Vos of Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ” Cartoonist: Crowden Satz. NEW CAPTION CONTEST.
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The Blockchain Will Do to Banks and Law Firms What the Internet Did to Media
Harvard Business
MARCH 8, 2017
Of course, the internet has since become a major influence on our lives, from how we buy goods and services, to the ways we socialize with friends, to the Arab Spring, to the 2016 U.S. The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity.
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Is Behavioral Economics Used in Business?
Steve Shu Consulting
APRIL 19, 2018
I wrote a book, Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives in 2016, mostly to help bridge the gap between science and the application in business. This can include wanting to do holistic innovation that touches on service, products, and applications.
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186 What Will Happen When Your Company’s Algorithms Go Wrong?
Harvard Business
APRIL 10, 2017
2016: AI designed to predict recidivism acted racist. 2016: An AI agent exploited a reward signal to win a game without actually completing the game. 2016: Video game NPCs (non-player characters, or any character that is not controlled by a human player) designed unauthorized superweapons.
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110 Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks
Tom Spencer
APRIL 6, 2019
The goal is to exploit both the trust of … users and bugs in their web browsers to install a virus allowing the hacker access to the organisation’s network” ( Welch, 2016 ). If you are an IT company that creates software, hiring developers to check code can be a good defensive strategy. Common Methods of Cyber-Attack.
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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
” It suggested that collaboration in research, education, and clinical practice too often remain unexplored in many developed countries across the world. The result of this association was an evidence-based report recommending best practices in autism services for developing and middle-income countries.
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123 How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 23, 2018
We held our own feet to the fire by sharing our findings with leaders and employees in 2016. From 2016 to the end of 2017, the number of women leaders at Lilly globally rose from 38% to 41%, and the number of women who report directly to our CEO climbed from 31% to 43%. compared to 54% in 2016. Be an open book. Commit to change.
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127 How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2017
While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. That offered the added advantage of allowing innovations to be developed within the clinical setting where the ideas could be tested and deployed. Insight Center.
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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting
Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2017
By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.
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6 Signs You’re Living in an Entrepreneurial Society
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2016
In his landmark 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , famed author and educator Peter Drucker wrote about an entrepreneurial society and its impact on economic development. The regulators eventually catch up, but not before the innovators have developed viable solutions for us to improve our lives. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.
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How to transition successfully from peer to team manager
Halo Psych
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
A useful framework is The First 90 Days a concept developed by Michael Watkins in his book of the same name. Get a coach, learn to coach Many studies suggest that coaching can help managers develop confidence, manage stress , develop better work relationships and perform better. Grover, S., & Furnham, A. Jones, R.J.,
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52 Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That’s Not Good News
Harvard Business
JANUARY 26, 2018
To answer it, we tested for generational changes in college students’ responses to the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale from 1989 to 2016. Between 1989 and 2016, college students’ levels of self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism all increased by statistically significant amounts.
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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 27, 2017
In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. million pounds of waste from landfills and saving more than 2.2 million gallons of water.
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Global Payments 2016: Competing in Open Seas
BCG
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Report Monday, September 26, 2016. At the top of the collective agenda in 2016 is the digitization of payments, which has come with more than its share of hype. What can banking incumbents do in the face of these developments? One objective will be to emerge as more-streamlined entities.
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How to Persuade the Young and the Healthy to Sign Up for Health Insurance
Harvard Business
JANUARY 18, 2018
That percentage stayed level into 2016, and with a shorter enrollment period in 2017, this year’s percentage may be lower. The Access to Better Care Act of 2016 ( H.R. Guidelines developed by professional societies and promoted by the U.S. But the effect of the mandate on coverage was never particularly impressive.
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One Leadership Development Self-Assessment for True Success
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 6, 2023
No leader I know sets out to develop bad habits. Here is one leadership development tool that creates the clarity you need to achieve your goals. Also, I don't believe the most significant barrier for many leaders is creating a greater desire for better habits. When it comes to business leadership, nice guys finish first. Wilson, T.,
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Desperate Times Call for Effective Turnarounds
BCG
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
Article Friday, November 11, 2016. Based on BCG’s experience working with clients, we have developed a three-part transformation framework. Develop a business model and an operating model to increase competitive advantage. See Transformation: The Imperative to Change, BCG report, November 2014.) Winning in the Medium Term.
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105 A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI
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. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.
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134 Generating Value While Transforming Insurers’ Legacy Technology
BCG
DECEMBER 8, 2016
Article Thursday, December 08, 2016. See, for example, “Digitizing Customer Journeys and the New Insurance IT Model,” BCG article, August 2016.) See “Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance,” BCG article, August 2016.). How companies transform their IT can be as important as where they end up.
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81 Why Companies Overlook Great Internal Candidates
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2016
However, LinkedIn’s recent Talent Trends study, conducted between January and March of 2016 with more than 26,000 professionals, showed that 25% of professionals today have their eye on a promotion. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. This may be true for some. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. Companies like Mars Inc.
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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things
Harvard Business
MARCH 14, 2017
When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.
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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. ” Develop corporate plasticity. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. ” Aim for the golden mean.
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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2017
When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.
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137 When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand
Harvard Business
JUNE 27, 2017
In Hong Kong Hanson Robotics is developing robots with human features. It might seem flippant to suggest that AI systems will need to develop specific personalities, but consider how a technology like Siri or Alexa has already become so closely associated with the Apple and Amazon brands. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.
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126 The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs
Harvard Business
MARCH 16, 2017
According to an October 2016 Pew poll , only about half of Americans believe that climate change is due to human activity. and in developing nations. Air conditioning demand is soaring in the developing world.
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108 Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs
Harvard Business
MAY 2, 2017
The leaders of the Hidden Champions stay at the helm for an average of 20 years; according to Strategy&, which collects data on the world’s largest 2,500 companies, in large firms the average CEO tenure from 2012 – 2016 was only seven years, and the median was even shorter, at five and a half years.
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134 The Health Effects of Youth Unemployment
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In other words, these findings are unique to unemployed young people in many highly developed economies. Could the stigma of not having a job as a young person in a highly developed economy be devastating enough that it is similar to adding 30 years of aging to one’s physical well-being? What’s the cause? This is possible.
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116 How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2018
In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In researching and testing these commonalities, we developed a new management framework for effective cross-sector partnerships, and a clear method for measuring success.
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5 essential tips to enhance your influence skills
Halo Psych
OCTOBER 25, 2024
However, the most effective influencers understand that influence is an iterative process, involving: Listening to people Testing your position Developing an updated position which reflects input from others Testing your updated position Incorporating compromises Trying again Here are my top 5 tips to help you become more influential.
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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub
Harvard Business
JUNE 6, 2018
To put this in perspective, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016 (7.2x Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub is a perfect illustration of how value is ascribed differently in Silicon Valley than in the rest of the world. GitHub was acquired for close to 30x annual recurring revenue (an astronomical multiple).
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