Managers: Tips for being work-life role models
Be a Work-Life Role Model “Everyone struggles to find the right balance between work and life. As a manager, how you personally handle this challenge influences your team members. They are looking to you for signs of what they can and should do.” To read more, please click here
CEOs engaging on social media: More open, more honest, more human
Humanize the CEO “Recently I got to speak to a group of local leaders at a MacKay CEO Forum, on the topic of social media. It’s a scary subject for many CEOs, but one they can no longer afford to ignore. Your customers already know it: true authenticity starts at the top. CEOs can’t sit back [...]
How should your leaders behave ?
“Anyone with responsibility for the performance of a large organization knows the value of effective leaders. Most of us are more than happy to invest in developing them. But even a cursory review of the management literature shows that there’s no consensus on how to do that. When fast growth pressured us at Amgen to [...]
What does it mean to be successful ? A review of “What you’re really meant to do”…
Book Review: Success Reimagined This books starts exactly from where a lot of us are stuck. It asks, what does it mean to be successful? “I faced my defining moment when I took up a course called True North at Harvard. It was facilitated by Professor Bill George. During the course, a lot of assumptions [...]
Product design, innovation and building great teams… explore the link
Can Building Great Products Help You Build Great Teams? “Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. The premise is that all energy should be focused solely [...]
Gove: ‘My banker friends have it easy compared to social workers’
“Frontline had its official launch last week and many familiar faces were in attendance, from education secretary Michael Gove to Labour peer Lord Adonis, chief social worker Isabelle Trowler, College of Social Work chief Annie Hudson, Cafcass chief Anthony Douglas and Professor Julian Le Grand” To read the full article, please click here
Is there a leadership deficit? CEO of Harvard Business Publishing discusses global survey results on CNBC Europe
David Wan, CEO of Harvard Business Publishing, comments on a survey which shows that global business leaders are suffering from a crisis of confidence, and discusses what that implies. See the full video, here
NHS care crisis: smarter use of people management data could provide early warning system
Smarter use of information on front line NHS employees could help prevent more scandals over poor patient care by highlighting early warning signs before problems escalate to crisis point. That’s according to new research by the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, in collaboration with the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA), which [...]
The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same
“One of the very first articles in the very first issue of Fast Company, a magazine I started 20 years ago with Alan Webber, is a smart and entertaining list compiled by E.F. Borisch, product manager at a long-established outfit called Milwaukee Gear Company. Borisch’s article was titled, “50 Reasons Why We Cannot Change,” and it [...]
Turning Talent Data into Real Information
“Big data is all the rage in HR recently. But more immediately promising is the talk of small data — of more effectively managing the data we already have before we start thinking about analyzing more complex datasets. And nowhere is this more pertinent than with talent assessment data. For here, sitting right under organisations’ [...]
