“Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google knows that the highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. “ (Laura Delizonna) Increase psychological safety among your team by replicating the steps that Santagata took: Taking conflict as a collaborator. We hate…
Adapted from: Your Performance Review Went Really Wrong | HBR | Shyamli Rathore Many of us let our jobs define our self-worth. Any negative messages we receive about our performance hugely impact our self-esteem. This is not an uncommon feeling. “In a performance review, while you can’t control what your boss will say to…
Adapted from: Strategy& | Mastering the connection between strategy and culture| David Lancefield “The goal should be to master the connectivity between strategy and culture. They both should be anchored by capabilities—the “key activities in which you must invest disproportionately and perform distinctively to underpin your theory of competitive advantage,” according to author and CEO advisor…
Adapted from: Strategy & Business | Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi “In a survey of 500 senior Executives around the world, about 80 percent said that their overall strategy was not well understood, even within their own company.” This problem arose from the way these companies are managed. There are significant gaps between strategy and execution. This…
A GUIDE TO OPEN STRATEGY Authors, Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen | Adapted from HBR “Strategy is developed in three distinct phases, each of them requiring a different solution to get the balance between openness and secrecy. Whether a company wants to open up in order to determine…
Adapted from: HBR | Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why | Michael D. Watkins “A business strategy is a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organisation, generates a desired pattern of decision making.” Michael D Watkins, What is a business strategy and what is not? When it comes…
Adapted From: McKinsey | Vivian Hunt “New research makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially.” Authors Vivian Hunt, Dennis Layton, and Sara Prince reported this finding recently. They found that diversity is the probable competitive differentiator that shifts market share toward more diverse companies over time. More diverse…
“Microsoft’s recent research suggests that 41% of workers across the world are thinking about quitting their jobs. That means 59% of workers aren’t thinking about quitting. “ How do these organizations retain their employees? Author Ron Carucci gathered some insights from his interview of HR Executives that three practices appeared to be common across companies.…
According to a Human Resources and Non-Profit Management Expert, Perla Jones, small businesses have to understand the impact of technology trends to help their company find the right solution to stay productive and competitive. Implementing the right solution is critical to the increasing investment in technology nowadays. Complete Mobile Experience- The company website has to…
A Combination Rather Than Simple Remedies. Research shows that strong organisational performance is developed when fuelled by a combination of 3 or more carefully selected complementary management practices. Tendencies of executives to rely on their experiences and personal knowledge tend to lean toward isolated application and therefore turn out to be quite ineffective. Assess Current…