Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2024
Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.
David A Fields
JUNE 4, 2024
You’re missing important (perhaps breakthrough) ideas that could catapult your consulting firm’s success forward. You see a guy on the street wearing a tinfoil hat. Naturally, you ask, “Dude, what’s up with the hat?” “It staves off all disease,” he responds. “That’s ridiculous,” you confidently counter. After all, even though you’re not a physician, you … Continued The post From Absurd to Ingenious: How to Quickly Unearth Breakthrough Ideas for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David
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Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2024
A critical but often overlooked part of the recruiting and hiring process happens before the job description is posted — or even created. Hiring managers should conduct a thorough assessment of their team’s current skills, aspirations, and culture to make sure they’re courting candidates with the skill sets and capabilities will truly add value to the team and organization — both now and in the future.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 4, 2024
I've seen a number of posts recently saying that micromanagement isn't as bad as we might think it is. Instead, micromanagement might actually help the person who's the subject of that micromanagement. Sorry, no. Well, not sorry at all. Still No. Heck, NO. NO to all micromanagement. If any manager has micromanaged you, you know exactly how you felt.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2024
Traditionally, transformation efforts are organized as programs with a defined beginning and end. Rooted in a change model popularized by German American psychologist Kurt Lewin in the 1950s, this approach involves three stages: “unfreeze, change, and refreeze.” Although it is effective for discrete projects like implementing a new payroll system, this model falls short in today’s dynamic business environment.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2024
Hippo is poised to disrupt the insurance industry, but can it weather the effects of climate change?
Girard Training Solutions
JUNE 4, 2024
On today’s Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews his former colleague Melissa Sheehan, a marketing expert based in San Francisco, California. Melissa currently works in the talent marketing and employer brand space for a global technology company, where she helps attract and engage employees. Melissa’s background spans various areas of marketing, ranging from brand to communications, demand generation, and talent marketing.
Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2024
A conversation with consultant Arjan Singh on designing corporate war games.
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