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Three ways to lead learning
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Gianpiero Petriglieri
This article sets out three approaches which can help executives to select, develop, partner with, and be better leaders of learning for their companies.
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Time to double down on DEI
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Paige Hagy
Paige Hagy examines the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the accounting profession, against the backdrop of a wider corporate pushback against these initiatives.
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Our favourite management tips of 2024
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- 27 Dec 2024
- HBR Editors
Ten tips to help you better manage yourself and your teams, from one of HBR’s most popular newsletters.
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How leaders can tap the power of vulnerability
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- 04 Nov 2024
- Dana Maor, et al.
This article discusses the importance of vulnerability in leadership, emphasising how it can help to build trust and connections. The authors point to real-life examples of leaders who have successfully embraced vulnerability to enhance their leadership effectiveness.
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What the best leadership teams do right
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- 22 Oct 2024
- Ron Carucci, Mindy Millward, Eric Hansen
This article outlines three critical, highly interdependent roles that executive teams must play in order to have lasting impact on their company’s performance, culture, and ability to adapt. The authors provide tips as to how teams can play each of these roles successfully.
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6 essential leadership skills — and how to develop them
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- 18 Oct 2024
- Rebecca Knight
This article highlights six leadership skills that have become essential in the contemporary workplace, and provides practical advice on how to develop them.
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Shift your leadership from "power over" to "leading through"
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- 09 Oct 2024
- Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, Erin E. Clark
An excerpt from a new book which calls for the end of the power-focused leadership model and the rise of a new approach — one which is caring, consciously seeks to do good, and mobilises
people to solve tough problems.
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Team effort: beyond employees to team, beyond manager to coach
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- 01 Oct 2024
- Renee Evenson
Renee Evenson discusses the importance of building cohesive teams through communication, cooperation, and creativity, urging managers to act as coaches for efficient, self-sustaining success.
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Why leadership teams fail
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- 01 Sep 2024
- Thomas Keil, Marianna Zangrillo
Drawing on interviews with more than 100 CEOs and senior executives, this article outlines three main patterns of dysfunction within leadership teams. The authors aim to help leadership teams to diagnose their failings, and find ways to improve.
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Teamwork at the top
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- 01 Sep 2024
- Gregory LeStage, Sara Nilsson DeHanas, Pete Gerend
This article sets out a four-step process to help leaders to promote beneficial patterns of collective behaviour within their teams. The authors point to five key behaviours — direction, discipline, drive, dynamism, and collaboration — as being crucial to the effectiveness of leadership teams.
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How to train an AI-enabled workforce - and why you need to
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- 08 Aug 2024
- Lucas Mearian
As artificial intelligence (AI) is adopted within organisations, there is a need for employee training in how to use AI tools most effectively. This article underscores the importance of upskilling workers for the AI revolution, and highlights practical strategies for building AI expertise.
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Employee ownership trusts: An emerging strategy for HR leaders
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- 29 Jul 2024
- Derek Razo
Employee ownership has emerged as an effective strategy for attracting, engaging and retaining top talent. The author discusses the use of employee ownership trusts in the US and how they can provide opportunities to increase employee satisfaction, foster collaborative cultures and drive consistent business growth.
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More seats at the table: A legacy-minded Charlotte contracting family opts for broader employee ownership
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- 01 Jul 2024
- David Mildenberg
Blythe Development, a construction company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has opted for employee ownership by selling the business to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). ESOPs have been around for a number of years in the US but still remain rare. The company's decision is discussed, including the family's wish to maintain control of the business and to gain an advantage in the retention and recruitment of employees.
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All-white boards becoming more common, says UK retailers report
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- 25 Jun 2024
- Jennifer Creery
A new report has found that the proportion of British retailers with all-White boards has increased, which is seen as a setback for the industry's efforts to improve diversity.
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The leap to leader
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- 20 Jun 2024
- Adam Bryant
To succeed as a senior executive, you need a new mindset as well as special skills and competencies. This article outlines the mental shifts necessary for a successful transition to a senior leadership position.
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3 challenges to hybrid work — and how to overcome them
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- 30 May 2024
- Mark C. Bolino, Corey Phelps
This article provides advice on how managers can overcome three key challenges which often arise in hybrid working contexts — those of aligning schedules, fostering culture, and ensuring productivity.
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Engage employees for AI success
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- 01 May 2024
- David De Cremer
Article discusses how in order to make Artificial Intelligence adoption a success it is important to keep employees happy and engaged. Employees find AI intimidating and their feedback is often not part fo the process. The author discusses what organisations must do to develop employee-inclusive AI practice and to keep their employees happy, productive, and engaged.
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Transformations that work
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- 01 May 2024
- Michael Mankins, Patrick Litre
An examination of why so many ambitious change initiatives end in failure, and of the steps that leading companies such as Ford, Dell, T-Mobile, and Adobe are taking to deliver real transformation against the odds.
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Leading digital and hybrid workforces
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- 20 Mar 2024
- Mohsina Malla, Alexandra Venn-Brown
Mohsina Malla and Alexandra Venn-Brown from Deloitte New Zealand explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workplace in the context of flexible working, including potential benefits and challenges.
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The future is flexible
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- 20 Mar 2024
- Allana Coulon
Allana Coulon looks at the rapid growth of flexible working and its implications for culture, performance and inclusion. She provides advice on how organisational leaders and HR professionals can ensure that flexibility works for the organisation and not against it.
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Managing (and surviving) in a high-intensity workplace
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Erin Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan
After interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that total selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and harmful. It has dysfunctional consequences not only for individuals but also for their organizations. The authors discuss three typical strategies (Accepting, Passing and Revealing) for coping with demanding workplaces, and the risks associated with each style. Managers can help by enforcing reasonable work hours, requiring vacations, and taking steps to protect employees’ personal lives.
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Organisations benefit from employees taking sabbaticals, research shows
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- 01 Mar 2024
- David Burkus
The article summarises the findings of a number of research studies into the effect of sabbatical leave on employee wellbeing and organizational performance. Benefits to individuals from sabbaticals can include a decline in stress and an increase in overall well-being, while organisations can use sabbatical programs as a means to stress test their procedures and give aspiring leaders a chance to grow.
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9 tips to boost presentation skills
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Jill Geisler
Jill Geisler gives nine tips to help you present your messages with authority and authenticity.
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Negotiate like a extortion negotiator
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Scott Walker
In his former career as a kidnapping and extortion negotiator, the author handled sensitive negotiations all over the world. Through his experiences, observations, and conversations with other experts in the field, he developed a deep understanding of what works and what doesn’t in high-stakes negotiations. Here he shares guidance on what he calls the level-five mindset, which involves deep listening to better understand and interpret a counterpart’s self-perception and perspective.
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Resume rules: Is your CV in need of a revamp?
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Cheryl Hyatt
Accounting and finance recruitment specialists share advice on how to make a great first impression. Topics discussed include the significance of tailoring resumes for each role, keeping them concise, and showcasing skills with specific examples.
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How can managers help teams combat change exhaustion?
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Mollie West Duffy, Liz Fosslien
Advice on what managers should be doing to handle employee 'change fatigue' from too many organizational changes. The authors suggest acknowledging the discomfort that comes with change, devising a plan in the face of uncertainty, and adopting set rituals as a team.
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What every woman needs to know about retiring
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Jennifer Waters
Article on the financial challenges women often face in retirement. It highlights that women typically earn less than men over their lifetimes, have less saved in retirement accounts and live longer. Provides advice on financial planning and what women need to do for a secure retirement.
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Recruiting older workers
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Ken Dychtwald, Robert Morison, Katy Terveer
It's time for a new deal between employers and older workers, say the authors. They give advice for employers on how to hire, retain and engage older and retired workers, resulting in mutually productive employment matches. They also take a look at the value of older workers and bust some of the most prevalent myths about their working styles.
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Black chartered accountants in post-apartheid South Africa: Global implications for the profession
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Theresa A.Hammond, Sedzani Musundwa
Although South Africa’s Apartheid system legally ended with the advent of democracy in 1994, by 2021 only 15% of chartered accountants were Black. The authors examine this underrepresentation through interviews with 22 Black South Africans who earned their chartered accountancy certification in the second decade of the 21st century. While the officially mandated educational and employment barriers that previous generations faced have been dismantled, the authors found that aspiring Black accountants continue to face immense barriers to entering the profession.
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Diversity and the evaluation of talent in the accounting profession: The enigma of merit
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Fiona Anderson-Gough, Carla Edgley, Keith Robson, Nina Sharma
While accounting firms are facing recruitment and retention problems, regulatory bodies are calling for efforts to improve diversity to be more effective, especially at senior levels. In this paper, the authors discuss 'merit' in processes of performance evaluation and career progression. Based on interviews in Big 4, mid-tier and small professional services firms in the UK, the authors explore how the working environment and culture in firms can potentially inhibit moves to improving diversity.
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