Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Sari Wilde, a managing vice president at Gartner, studied 5,000 managers and identified four different types of leaders. Instead, the “connector” manager is the most effective, because they facilitate productive interactions across the organization.

Talent 70

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2023

eLearning can save you time and money while also improving productivity, increasing employee retention, and more. In fact, in a study posted by Inc., Because of this, a study done by LinkedIn shows that 58% of workers prefer to learn this way rather than do so in person. That’s where eLearning comes in.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 28, 2023

Not only does it help them acclimate to their new role quicker, but it also helps boost retention and productivity levels. A study by Edgepoint Learning showed that eLearning takes between 40-60% less time than traditional training. Glassdoor also found that a thorough onboarding process can help boost productivity levels by over 70%.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

When I interviewed business leaders at the top-scoring organizations, they told me their investments in the three employee experience environments had led not only to happier employees but also to larger talent pipelines and greater profitability and productivity. But that was just anecdotal evidence.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. A global study of 14,800 knowledge workers across 25 countries revealed: 49% of leaders and 42% of non-managers are struggling with anxiety 74% of those surveyed are looking to company leadership for help dealing with workplace stress. Doolittle, J.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. For the best companies, this benefit compounds over time, allowing them to build a massive productivity advantage over their competitors.

Energy 70

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The renowned comic book writer and publisher, who died this week at 95, thought idle talent was bored talent, and bored talent was easy to lose to the competition. I studied Lee for my book, Superbosses. Keep talent busy was just one of the lessons I took from Lee’s example.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” More than forty years later, myriad studies have substantiated the claim that American workers expect something deeper than a paycheck in return for their labors. To date, business leaders have lacked two key pieces of information they need in order to act on the finding that meaning drives productivity. Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

My coauthors and I explore this in detail as part of a study of how well 12,000 firms in 34 countries performed 18 core management practices. We found many reasons for weak adoption of basic things like target setting and talent management, but some of the most prominent ones include: A lack of awareness that better processes may be needed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

To study the role of migrant inventors in U.S. Our study shows that immigrants accounted for 19.6% “rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Overall, our study suggests that immigrant inventors were vital to U.S. born engineers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

But a Harvard Business Review analytics study of 230 executives suggests a stunning rate of anticipated progress: 15% said they use “ predictive analytics based on HR data and data from other sources within or outside the organization,” while 48% predicted they would be doing so in two years. Consulting firms in the U.S.

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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. How talent management is changing. This may be true for some. That left us wondering, what’s the disconnect here?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 23, 2021

In a 2015 study, Deloitte reported that diverse companies earned 2.3 An inclusive workplace can improve the wellbeing of your employees, boost moral, and increase productivity. And on top of that, being truly inclusive will widen your pool of talent to choose from. times higher cash flow per employee.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Economics 101 teaches that workers put forth greater effort when these efforts are rewarded financially, and top talent tends to gravitate toward jobs and firms where rewards are geared to performance. Why link financial incentives to groups, teams, or organizational performance when production wasn’t set up in that way?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The study also found that the absence of natural light and outdoor views hurts the employee experience. The eMarketer Mobile Research study reports that American adults over the age of 18 spend about four hours on their mobile devices every day. In fact, CEOs are starting to focus on how the workspace can lead to improved productivity.

Real Estate 133

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Harvard Business

JULY 23, 2018

Preliminary analyses have revealed that some of the top organizations in the world have been working the growth mindset concept into their work and talent processes for years. This is counter-productive. When people really do have too much on their plate, attacking their mindset is counter-productive.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2017

Overall, I studied 311 Bordeaux wineries over a 10-year period. In this study I distinguished between mean quality and variance in quality. Many outstanding wineries did not use consultants, preferring to use only in-house talent. And what I found was that on those years there had been a lot of sun and low production.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Leaders face an unprecedented talent challenge with no immediately obvious solution. Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. It is easy to logically think of the talent challenge as attracting and retaining the right people.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Studies of leaders often focus on their style or charisma, but we wanted to look at how workers are affected by their boss’s technical competence. In our project, we studied 35,000 randomly selected employees and workplaces. But what makes someone a great boss? The samples are from both the U.S. and Britain.

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Emotional Intelligence Engineering Study Research 133

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

” Researchers have studied managerial derailment — or the dark side of leadership — for many years. Absentee leadership creates employee stress, which can lead to poor employee health outcomes and talent drain, which then impact an organization’s bottom line.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. There is therefore a higher cost and productivity loss when your disengaged employees are creative; but the benefits of engaging them are also higher.

Talent 132

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. “Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 27, 2024

A Longstanding Partnership for Excellence Since 2013, Clarity Consultants has partnered with this leading financial services company on nearly 100 projects, demonstrating a solid commitment to talent development and excellence in the industry. Click to read the Case Study!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a new study by my firm and Virgin Pulse, we found that a third of employees globally work remote always or very often. The study also found that remote workers are much less likely to stay at their company long-term. It is a beautiful thing to see, and it has not only improved productivity but brought the team closer together.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

To study those issues and others, we surveyed how AI is being implemented at more than 1,000 global companies. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Is your office killing your productivity? In a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred employees in Denmark, Jan Pejtersen and his colleagues found that as the number of people working in a single room went up, the number of employees who took sick leave increased apace. .” ”

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Recruiting Recruitment Study Talent 108

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. The study found that the number of cheers an employee received was highly correlated with high network influence. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They are incredibly strategic, looking 20 to 30 years ahead, to understand how society is evolving, how they can shape it, and how they can get the talent to do this. All the Centennials we studied talked about their impact on society — the beliefs and behaviors they’ve changed — from the minute we met.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. He shares a number of ways that he has made this work for him, including aggressively building product.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. What made their ascent possible? They pursue management challenges.

Management 132

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

He recognized that he could predict who would succeed in the Major Leagues by studying who had succeeded in the Major Leagues. The next step was just a logical leap: Women who begin buying these products are likely pregnant and can be targeted (pun intended) for pregnancy-related products and services.

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