Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2024

Few companies have a clear idea of where strategy making ends and execution begins. As a result they develop strategic plans where they’re not required and fail to develop strategic plans where they are. To help prevent this happening to your Graham Kenny offers a few dos and don’ts: (1) Don’t develop strategic plans for functions; (2) Confine “strategy” to the business level; (3) Keep strategy and action separate; and (4) Be careful how you use the terms “strategy” and “strategic.

Strategic Planning 141

Strategic Planning 141

Lolly Daskal

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ineffective leadership can cripple an organization, stifling growth and breeding discontent among employees. Recognizing the traits of poor leadership is the first step in correcting course and fostering a healthier, more productive workplace. Here are seven signs that clearly identify someone with bad leadership skills: Poor Communication: Ineffective leaders often fail to clearly convey expectations, provide feedback, or maintain open lines of communication.

Accounts 108

Accounts Marketing Manager Employee Engagement 108

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2024

High stress at work can destabilize people’s ethical compass, putting them at heightened risk of ethical lapses. When employees focus solely on achieving their targets, deadlines, or personal financial goals at the expense of ethical considerations — when doing the right thing feels burdensome compared to seemingly less-costly shortcuts — they can teeter on “ethical burnout.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 27, 2024

Churchill carried England on the power of his voice. 7 Churchill Quotes: #1. Leaders define reality. Churchill gave people a bold way of seeing. “These are not dark days. These are great days.

Leadership Development 116

Leadership Development 116

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

Benefits

Michael McKinney

AUGUST 27, 2024

M OST people think that breakthrough ideas come from a vision of the future that is better than what we see today. It is based on the idea that the future will be a new and improved continuation of today. The vision relies on past experiences and then finding patterns that are used to predict the future. However, successful breakthrough ideas require pattern-breaking—unconventional thinking.

Government 99

Government Implementation Benefits 99

Viima

AUGUST 27, 2024

After a well-deserved summer break, we are back with another Innovation Room Podcast episode. In this one, Colin and Braden Kelley discuss the interconnection between innovation and change management, the growing role of sustainability in driving corporate innovation, the impact of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on business models, and so much more.

Change Management 97

Change Management Manager 97

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2024

When companies seek to engage in more inclusive recruitment, they often overlook recruitment initiatives focused on refugees. The number of global refugees, asylum seekers, and others in need of international protection surpassed 50.3 million people at the end of 2023, per the U.N. Refugee Agency. The authors cite their findings from two of their studies: first, that managers who have never recruited from this group tend to not only undervalue the benefits of this talent pool, but also hold vari

Inclusion 97

Inclusion Recruitment Manager Benefits 97

Alison Green

AUGUST 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Exec’s imposter syndrome makes her defensive I chair a board of a mid-size community organization and as part of that role I line manage the chief exec, Flora. She’s a phenomenally smart, talented person with a real depth of experience in the work of the people she leads and a wonderful vision for how to make the organization better for the communities it serves.

Recruitment 96

Recruitment Accounts Advertising Manager 96

Rhythm Systems Growth

AUGUST 27, 2024

As Go the Leaders, So Go Their Teams Jeff Berstein was the CEO of ImageFIRST when we discussed the importance of developing more A-Players in his company. ImageFIRST is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies providing laundry services to the healthcare industry. Inspired, Jeff set the goal of having A-Players comprise 70 percent of his workforce.

Manager 105

Manager 105

Alison Green

AUGUST 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m looking to book a birthday getaway for myself and my partner in the next few months. It is nothing extreme, just a long weekend away that might require a Friday and a Monday off. I’d like to keep it a surprise until the week of the getaway. Would it be inappropriate to reach out to my partner’s line manager (who I do not know but do have an email for) to ask her to pre-approve the necessa

Manager 93

Manager 93

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

Diversity

Refresh

AUGUST 27, 2024

Tough day at work? Bad days are bound to happen, but there are productive steps you can take… The post From Stress to Success: Recovering After a Bad Day at Work first appeared on The Express Blog.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: This is a weird low-stakes thing. I work in a small government office and we have a guy working here who’s been here for over 40 years and is within a year or two of retiring. I like him well enough, but I’ve noticed he almost never calls women by their names. Any woman he speaks to, he addresses as just “you,” and if he’s talking about a woman who’s not in the room, he just says “her.” There are m

Government 93

Government Manager 93

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2024

A conversation with former Marvel head Peter Cuneo on what it takes to shake up a team or organization.

Organizational Change 103

Organizational Change Manager 103

Alison Green

AUGUST 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Tomorrow is the Ask a Manager speed round! On Wednesday from 2-3:30 pm ET , I’ll be answering as many questions as I can live on the website during that time. To submit a question in advance, use the form below. These will be short answers, obviously, so this is better suited for questions that don’t require lengthy, nuanced replies.

Manager 88

Manager 88

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

Retention

15Five

AUGUST 27, 2024

If IQ was enough to make an amazing manager, every team would be led by rocket scientists and doctors. But there’s more that goes into being a manager than rattling off facts and thinking your way through complex problems. That’s why emotional intelligence is so important. Emotional intelligence is the soft skill equivalent of IQ; it’s about being more aware of your thoughts and emotions and moving through conflict and relationships with empathy and care.

Manager 52

Manager Benefits Performance Review Accounts 52