Harvard University social psychology professor Ellen Langer says organizations can make better decisions by setting the right context. Ellen Langer is an artist and Harvard psychology professor who authored 11 books on the illusion of control, perceived control, successful aging and decision-making. “We have many, many studies that suggest that …
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Reinventing Management In Reinventing Management, Julian Birkinshaw offers alternative counterpoints to replace the traditional ways people approach management and business. Arguing that management “failed” after years of corruption and employee disenchantment, Birkinshaw presents compelling arguments for how management can be improved and updated for a new era of business. With a fresh …
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Customization is changing the way organizations manage their people They will no longer treat their workforce as a single entity but instead, treat each employee as a “workforce of one,” offering customized HR and talent management solutions. According to Accenture Strategy, while companies have excelled by treating customers as “markets …
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As an aspirational manager, you’ve already mapped out your career path and you know where you’re going. But in addition to exceeding expectations in all things work-related, there’s one more way you can beat the competition for that promotion to middle management—and that’s to adopt habits that get you poised …
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Harvard Business Review published an article by several Gallup experts titled “Why Good Managers Are So Rare” contesting that one of the most critical decisions id deciding on who is the manager, the leader that people instinctively trust and respect. As Britt Andreatta states in her Entrepreneur article titled “5 Ways to …
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Navigating Matrix Management – 5 Ways to Avoid Failing and Find Success
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Don MacLean, Managing Director, Business Development, at Root Inc. for more than 20 years he has worked with organizations of all types to support the strategy and change process, and shares a few key steps that can be taken in setting up the process for effective strategy execution and transformation. …
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Change implementation is one of the most important roles of leadership Professor Malcom Higgs, of University of Southhampton School for Management, contests that it’s widely accepted that only 30% of changes are successful. A widely accepted mindset is based on two assumptions: that behavior and changes in behavior can be …
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Excerpts from “Tribes: We Need you to Lead Us” Seth Godin, Author, entrepreneur, public speaker: sethgodin.com A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. …
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This video clip offers an insight into why we believe that a new approach to managing people is needed. Is the management model we’ve been using for 100 years still valid for today’s business environment? The ‘father of management’ Peter Drucker said that it isn’t: “Organisations can no longer be …
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