Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. Jason Oh is a Senior Manager at TD Bank’s Enterprise Strategy team.

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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. In 2017, Facebook transitioned to a continuous delivery model.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 10, 2018

Here are my top tips for managing your self-doubt. Here’s what to do instead: Develop a really good capability statement that describes your service offering and lets clients know why they should hire you. You have to put away your self-doubt and manage your self-talk. How will I figure out ‘how to’ consult? Be prepared.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

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. For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 7, 2025

Inheriting problems is a common issue to come up in coaching sessions and workshops with managers. Here are six things I advise managers in this situation to do: Check your assumptions and dont judge too quickly First things first, difficult people arent necessarily bad people. Often, we can get uncomfortable as managers with this.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Everyone is trying to do more with less, and to help them achieve this goal, organizations are leaning in to their learning and development programs to help them fill that gap. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Bain & Company is listed as the best place to work in Glassdoor’s 2017 awards list. Bain & Company.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012, and was the brainchild of Founder and Managing Partner Chris Bulger. In the firm’s flagship Boston office, 100% of employees – including the Managing Partner and Senior Leadership – sit out in an open bullpen (software company style). . – Revenue: $20M.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

.” But excluded from the report was the fact that Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted into Silicon Valley’s management and executive levels, even though they are the most likely to be hired into high-tech jobs. executives and senior managers , and none of its executive officers , were.

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BCG

JANUARY 4, 2017

Video Wednesday, January 04, 2017. Teams led by Schmidhuber have been publishing research on AI applications for fields as diverse as art, medicine, and music—while he continues the quest he began in the 1980s to develop general problem solvers.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

One of the pleasures of being a Certified Management Consultant is to meet and collaborate with CMC peers from around the world. One such colleague is Altantuya Altankhuu (Tuya), currently the Chair of our management consulting Institute in Mongolia. Tuya has and has kindly allowed me to reprint the text of her speech here.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Our management team was invested in this undertaking from the beginning. Dave Ricks, who was then president of one of our largest business units and who became CEO in January 2017, commissioned the research and supported it throughout the process. Here are some of the lessons we learned: Get buy-in from the outset. Where we are now.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives. Many minds make lighter work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Worse, it could have backfired, making management look out of touch. Access to basic information was limited to high-ranking managers. Photodisc/Getty Images. There is commitment to change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In addition to managing their own performance, leaders are also accountable for their followers’ performance. Employees tend to bring their worries and anxieties to work with them and expect their leaders to manage those too. Leaders have many responsibilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

workforce that we conduct at the American Psychological Association , training and development consistently emerges as one of the areas employees are least satisfied with and lack of opportunity for growth, and advancement is second only to low pay as a source of work stress. In the surveys of the U.S. Supervisor support.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

As of 2017, nearly 75% of those in computing and mathematical fields were men and fewer than 15% were black or Hispanic. Whereas many similar diversity programs target only managers and HR , we have managers, administrative, and scientific staff participate together in mixed groups to capture multiple perspectives.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Maybe you're skeptical of whether it is possible to develop a creative and innovative team and believe you should just hire for it. A common argument presented in support of team development is that if people were born with creativity, we would observe more consistency in creativity among team members.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change. .”

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Hold supply managers accountable.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last-minute promotion or delivery changes that require managers to spend their time on last-minute schedule changes, which then disrupt employees’ lives and drive absenteeism, turnover, and understaffing, all of which increases the likelihood of errors. Employees who are not empowered to improve their work or solve customer problems.

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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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Rick Conlow

JUNE 13, 2021

Incredibly, in 2017, men in most nationalities still believe that they are superior to women. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website. Over 140 micro-learning and career development resources at your fingertips! Few second chances.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 4, 2018

The importance of solid and practical crisis management governance model. A crisis management governance model dictates who within an organization makes up the crisis management team. This is the team responsible for the organization’s crisis management and response. 3- Responsible vs. Accountable.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Deloitte national managing director Kim Christfort talks about the different personality styles in an organization and the challenges of bringing them together. Her firm has developed a classification system to help companies better understand personality styles and capitalize on their cognitive diversity. She and Suzanne M.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. In this mix, an American company must develop a unique, India-specific strategy and product road map. Local autonomy makes important decisions possible.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

In the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer survey, only 37% of global respondents rated CEOs to be sufficiently credible, continuing the pattern of low trust in recent years. Frontline leaders serve a vital role in interpreting and enacting organizational policies and practices for employees.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. PM Images/Getty Images. The numbers ranged from 18% to 69%. The result?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries. Shareholders are seeing these connections and speaking up.

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