Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2017

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. Management consulting is a challenging environment in which to cultivate apprenticeship, because staff regularly jump from project to project and manager to manager.

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Talent Development Handbook Survey 127

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management. Robert Rock – Milton Rock’s son and co-author of the Compensation Handbook and Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Ethan talked about all the times he’d been told no in his career: on plans to merchandise products, sophisticated inventory control systems, and basic training handbooks. He started mentally breaking down the product: It wasn’t a dress, but some cloth in a nice pattern. So he went to work with what he had.

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Resources Handbook Meeting Research 70

Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

The studies found that cohesion (defined as how connected your work friends are with each other) among employees is one of the most significant factors in productivity and job satisfaction.

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Handbook Meeting Productivity Research 52

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Recently the Communications Workers of America – the union that represents T-Mobile employees — contested a T-Mobile Employee Handbook clause on maintaining a positive work environment. ” Their reasoning was that – if employees are discontent – they need to be able to freely air that displeasure.

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Handbook Research Case Study Case Studies 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

For example, she described how she revised the company’s internal handbook by using skills she honed as a consultant and crowd-sourcing HR ideas from the team she already managed. The handbook was rolled out company-wide.).

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How To Handbook Resumes Metrics 71

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Writers: buy the Copyright Handbook. That's because copyright allows a writer to copyright the form of the words. I write in my own inimitable way. You write in your way. We write differently. Because if you ever sign a contract about your writing, you will learn which rights you want to keep—or relinquish.

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How To Leadership Handbook Guidelines 83

Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2015

In the pursuit of growth, should a company enter a new market, develop a new product, launch a start-up, form a joint venture, or acquire a competitor? In a bid to cut costs, should a company reduce headcount, outsource production to a supplier, or utilize lower cost distribution channels? Product preference. Income level.

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Survey Industry Company Productivity 60

Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In fact, the script is exactly what the playwright intended, but the director and the actors embellish the script in each production and performance. Companies go from handbooks and memos to hallway conversations to Slack checkins. Telling someone about the show is not the same as seeing it. And the script is not lossy compression.

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Culture Handbook Film Meeting 45

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

You know, you start as a product manager, senior product manager, director of product management: that’s the way all these job descriptions are written. When I talk to the VP of HR, they tend to either get it in 5 minutes or not. That will cover the basics.

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Case Interview Company Interviews Consulting 100

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

They have drawn heavily from Weisbord’s wonderfully rich, easy-to-read, and well-documented description of the origins of the field in Productive Workplaces (1987 and revised in 2012). All the imaginary stuff about Karg and the Court Jesters wasn’t what we (and the editors) needed for a more serious handbook for OD Practitioners.

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Development Organizational Development Consulting Leadership 77

Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

An employee handbook update doesn’t usually merit a press release and glossy promotional video — except when there’s a benefits arms race on. The paid-parental-leave arms race is red-hot because employers see a unique opportunity to nab talent and headlines by one-upping their competitors.

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Policies Fashion Recruitment Recruiting 127

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This tried and true perspective on leadership was reinforced for us during the past year as we researched and wrote the HBR Leader’s Handbook. It is still about mobilizing people in an organization around common goals to achieve impact, at scale.

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Leadership Handbook Healthcare Emotional Intelligence 132

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If your employee handbook or HR policy manual is large and prescriptive, consider the following: Don’t play “gotcha” — make positive assumptions about employees. If you believe employees require need strict rules and enforcement to be productive, hiring and retaining high-performance people will be a challenge for you.

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Policies Handbook Guidelines Company 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

When I read the Journal analysis, I couldn’t help but think about another famous service organization, the retail giant Nordstrom, and the long-standing handbook that defines life at this 72,500-person company. The entirety of the Nordstrom Employee Handbook fits on a single 5×8 card and involves exactly one rule.

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Handbook Airlines Culture Retail 134

Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

This helps parents be more productive with the time they have, and helps them balance their work and lives easier. Non-parents also use flexible working hours to be more productive. Save your scrutiny for employees’ work products, not their whereabouts. Maybe that person is just woefully inefficient. Paid sick days.

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