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- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
on a wealth of field experience, is an argument for failure—intelligent failure. She defines intelligent failure as having four key attributes: “ it takes place in new territory; the context presents a credible opportunity (in relation to risk) to advance toward a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2023
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How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?
career. 2. The reliance on policies allowing work away from the office has created new challenges for managers. A better reason backed by research is that organizations are failing to engage their employees. Why? In large part because... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the employment of “imposters,” a term, by the way, that was regarded as objectionable by many, most respondents implicitly rejected the notion. They pointed to the desirable qualities of imposters, people... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
that started a fuel burn 11 hours too early into the mission, using up so much fuel that the capsule could not reach the proper altitude. According to a reported comment by Jim Chilton, senior vice president of the space and launch... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
would avoid a "one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
(iStockphoto/skynesher) Most CEOs recognize the power of organizational culture and the impact that it can have on the bottom line. They acknowledge the importance of shared values and behaviors that influence the way an organization conducts its business. One... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective culture fostered View Details
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- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
violation of a non-compete? That’s the question raised by GYurieff, who said: “The difference in knowledge an individual brings into an organization and the knowledge this individual may take out of the organization—how is it measured?... View Details
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- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
(Illustration created using image generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool.) Last month, I posted a column in HBS Working Knowledge titled, “What’s Enough to Make Us Happy?” Over the last few months, I’ve been asking... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details
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- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
doubts were expressed by readers of this column about whether it even qualifies as a Black Swan. Let’s turn to some of the responses. “We are not dealing here with a Black Swan,” Tom Coyne commented. “The potential for, and impact of, a... View Details
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- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
and sometimes outside of work.” He added, “Everybody needs to be touched by someone who cares.” Of course, this takes time that many managers don’t feel they can spare. As Guy put it, “Improving employee engagement is not done through... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
improvement in the average produced a 2.5 percent improvement in unit revenue, or $250,000 in added revenue per hotel. In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other... View Details
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- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through)... View Details
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- 04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
printed out the pages containing the results he didn’t like, highlighted the offending ads, posted them on a bulletin board on the wall of the kitchen by the pool table, and wrote THESE ADS SUCK in big letters across the top. Then he went... View Details
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- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
Business Review in 1993. Michael Hammer and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York: HarperCollins, 1993). Brian Hancock and Bill Schaninger, “The vanishing middle manager,” McKinsey... View Details
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- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
position: the chief experience officer or CXO." A knowledge of customer experiences can be invaluable in the design and distribution of a product or service. We were convinced of that by Joseph Pine and View Details
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- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one way this could be done is View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
correlation vs. cause and effect. As commenter Diogenes put it, “Prove with a cogent methodology that racial and gender diversity lead to greater profitability. Prove causation, not correlation (which studies to date primarily by... View Details
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