1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

Powerful technologies will work in exactly the direction we point them in. Almost paradoxically, as more technology becomes available, human judgment and wisdom matter more.

Content: Quotation | Author: Kentaro Toyama | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

The University of Michigan professor believes that to solve human problems, human skill is needed more urgently than ever before.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jan Alexander, Kentaro Toyama | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

The labor market isn’t like the stock market, where buyers and sellers meet and conduct deals instantaneously with the stroke of a key. In fact, the labor market is in many ways remarkably inefficient. And people and institutions often can’t move fast enough — or may lack or lose the potential to move — to fill open positions.

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Gross | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Human Resources

Throughout much of human history, economic output was firmly yoked to the size of a country’s labor force. Because productivity growth was negligible, the countries with the largest populations, such as China and India, could put the most people to work. They reigned as the world’s largest economies. Things changed suddenly during the late 1700s. A number of economic, institutional, and other factors coalesced in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Jullens | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, International

Poor planning for changes in leadership costs companies dearly. Getting it right is worth more than you might think.

Content: Article | Authors: Gary L. Neilson, Ken Favaro, Per-Ola Karlsson | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Corporate Governance

With these 10 principles for rethinking cost management, you can maximize value and avoid threats from Wall Street.

Content: Article | Authors: Deniz Caglar, Gary L. Neilson, Vinay Couto | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Finance, Management

Markets on the whole may be efficient, but the U.S. doesn’t just have one labor, housing, or office market. There are hundreds of labor and housing markets, and thousands of submarkets. And they are full of imbalances, shortages, gluts, and other inefficiencies.

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Gross | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Economics

A 2014 Strategy& survey found that 42 percent of executives felt that their organization was not aligned with the strategy, and that parts of the organization resisted it or didn’t understand it. If that’s a familiar problem in your company, the principles in this article can help you develop an organization design that supports your most distinctive capabilities and supports your strategy more effectively.

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Content: Article | Authors: Bhushan Sethi, Gary L. Neilson, Jaime Estupiñán | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

By many measures, the labor market has never been better, with historically low unemployment rates and historically high levels of payroll jobs and job openings. So one service worker might be reasonably optimistic about finding a better position at better wages. And yet anxiety and economic insecurity remains rampant — in part because an increasing number of people rightly fear that their work could one … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Gross | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Work

I have found that the best way to stretch yourself creatively as a leader is by collecting “nuggets”: short, accessible reminders of what you probably already know but may have forgotten to put into practice. The best nuggets are easy to grasp and to communicate, meaty enough to lead you to pause and reflect, and open-ended enough that you can think of ways to apply … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: George E.L. Barbee | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Personal Development

Although diversity and inclusion training is prevalent in corporate America, its impact is inconsistent. According to the evidence, sometimes the programs even have the opposite effect of what they intend. One 2016 study of 830 mandatory diversity training programs found that they often triggered a strong backlash against the ideas they promoted. “Trainers tell us that people often respond to compulsory courses with anger and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Rock, Heidi Grant | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

You may indeed have gone into business in the first place because the subject of finance is relatively clean and clear; it doesn’t have the messy ambiguities of, say, psychology or literature. Such preferences don’t matter. You will end up distinguishing yourself (or not) on your ability not just to work with others, but to inspire them, draw insight from them, observe them accurately, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Any decision made in business is a bet about the way the world works. And until you understand the theory you’re betting on, you can’t really test the decision or improve it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Management, Strategy

You want to hire women. And women want to be hired. So what’s the problem? You need to change your game plan and make your rules more flexible. Here’s how to get started.

Content: Article | Authors: Deborah Khan, Lisa Unwin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Women in Business

As Peter Senge wrote in The Fifth Discipline (Doubleday Business, 1990), a learning organization is one in which “people continually expand their capacity to create results they truly desire.” When we view learning in this broader sense, we build feedback right into the system as an integral part of the work. If you want to accelerate learning on your team, first engage them in a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Elizabeth Doty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Teamwork

As an effective leader, it’s […] imperative to act as your team’s capacity keeper, or the shepherd of the time, energy, resources, and focus that your employees have to devote to their essential work. We do this to avoid what I call the manager’s dilemma, the phenomenon that occurs when the gap between the demands you face and the resources you have available to meet … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jesse Sostrin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Anyone attempting to lead change in an organization knows to expect some resistance. Change is not a rational process; no matter how positive the future you are creating, it’s natural for humans to struggle with it. Faced with negative remarks, critical questions, or stony silence, change champions naturally begin to interact more with those already on board, consciously or unconsciously distancing themselves from those who … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Elizabeth Doty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Bottom Line: The number of women presiding over large companies still lags far behind men, yet the firms they lead tend to be more risk averse and more profitable over the long term.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Palmquist | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Women in Business

A look at the value of in-person meetings for dispersed teams.

Content: Article | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Teamwork

Digitization, which is of course happening all around us, is opening up a whole new spectrum of opportunities to create value. But how do you navigate this new horizontal world?

Content: Article | Author: John Sviokla | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy