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Why Leadership Development in Asia Is Better Than in Europe
The second is the speed with which the top companies accelerate the development of key talent through experience, exposure and custom training programs. The need for Latin American leaders to help companies rebound from the global downturn and drive sustained growth is among the top issues for the region. A shift in leadership development has occurred. While it used to be that American and European companies had cornered the market on developing the leaders of tomorrow, our latest round of research shows that Europe is now second to organizations in Asia Pacific, with India making
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 8, 2010
Microsoft Set To Repair 8 Bugs, Continues Velvet Hammer For Upgrades
The downturn was not unexpected. “This is supposed to be safer, yet I remember specifically in a Microsoft training session that the reason given for the change was file size, since the files are actually in an archive format, similar to ZIP, which means that files transferred over networks will be smaller, and therefore faster. While there are 8 bugs in various versions of Microsoft products that will be patched on Tuesday, the Tuesday ritual leaves a few of the bugs that have been more noteworthy untouched. A story from ComputerWorld tells that no repair for the Windows 7 Server Message Block fault or the Internet Exploder F1 problem is forthcoming. Microsoft today announced it will ship two security updates on Tuesday to patch eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Sunday, March 7, 2010
Why Peace and Harmony Are Bad for Innovation
To me, one of the most disturbing images in literature isn't Big Brother's menacing stare or Anna Karenina's body under the train, but what the Parsee did with his cake crumbs. Citing examples from wartime as well as from the current downturn, they say they've found that "shocks and surprises did not deter progress, but actually drove it forward."
When I was reading How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin aloud the other night, I was struck by the Parsee's cruelty in sprinkling those stale, tickly crumbs inside the hide of the rhinoceros, who had taken it off to go swimming. They
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, February 26, 2010
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Pricing Strategies for the Downturn
Pricing power doesn't necessarily decrease in a downturn . Companies should let their sales people know how much leeway they have to negotiate a deal [link to Harvard Negotiation Program], and should train them to ensure they consistently realize the best negotiated price.
I used to love the television game show " The Price is Right ." Beyond the insane level of excitement of the show was the oddly compelling quest to discover the right price of everyday items like refrigerators and bar stools.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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The Value of Role Models in the Downturn
This downturn's survivors will be the role models for a new kind of business practice that is more socially responsible not as an add-on or after-thought but as a first thought at the core of its business operations.
Seeking role models - not just benchmarks - is one way to find an upside in the downturn. This stimulates their creativity, produces innovations It's hard to find many bright spots in the increasingly gloomy economy , but they're out there.
Among big companies, IBM and Procter & Gamble are bright spots.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 2, 2009
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Get Out of the Training Business
If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm.
Training is obsolete because it deals with a past that won’t be repeated. Next week, we will close the training department. Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009
The dawn of a new age
Informal Learning
- Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Where Is Our Innovation?
The greatest show of the coping done is the fact mentioned that, from the center of Shanghai, to the airport, it takes an hour by car, but using a mag-lev train, the same journey is 7 minutes. This is a train that floats over the track, using electromagnetic repulsion to float above the track, frictionless. The train achieves a top speed of 260 mph (430 km/h) and is as smooth as I was just watching an episode of Laura McKenzie’s Traveler , where she gives a very good display of what is happening in Shanghai, China . This would seem to be a very good indicator of
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Monday, March 30, 2009
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A Downturn Caution: Be Careful What You Cut
It also improves the productivity and effectiveness of support functions, which in turn helps boost the performance of a company's front line--a powerful advantage in a downturn.
Questions become: Which of HR's many roles help put talented, well-trained people in a company's critical positions? Click here to read our first Winning in Turbulence post, What Does the Downturn Mean for My Business By Hernan Saenz and Darrell Rigby
Preserving the G&A That Really Fuels Revenue
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Get out of the training business
If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, be aware that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. Training is obsolete because it deals with a past that won’t be repeated; learning will be redefined as problem-solving, achieving fit with one’s environment, and having the connections to deal with novel situations.
Next week, we will close the training department. Most of the time, the global economy is cyclical. It has its ups and downs but the underlying pattern remains the same.
TogetherLearn
- Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Is Your Company Brave Enough to Survive?
As a professor of strategy, lately I've been getting asked quite a lot, "What can our company do to survive the downturn?" And an economic downturn is like winter in Alaska; many animals can live a happy life in Alaska all through spring, summer, and fall, but when winter comes, it's not a great place to be. But I do think there are a few survival techniques from looking at firms' downturn survival strategies, although they are not for the faint-hearted. I'm sorry, but the real answer is, "Not a lot."
The market is Darwinian: the strongest ones survive.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Business of Learning
There are some important calls to action at the bottom of this post. Particularly, I'm interested in the question of: While training as a publisher of courses and courseware faces an increasingly challenging market, what other things can learning businesses successfully sell to internal or external customers? Troubled Times for Publishers By way of background for this, I think it's instructive to look at what is happening in parallel industries. Publishing happens to be a pretty close parallel to training. This is a very strange time. While increasing amount
eLearning Technology
- Monday, June 15, 2009
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Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
After two years of training people, we still have only a 50% rate of completion. They had timelines, communication plans, and training programs.
redesigned the materials, the training, the messages. Even the trainings were half-designed. There are times in life when I expect something to be perfect. When I open the box of my new Macbook Air, for example.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, February 2, 2009
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Why You Need to Fail
And for others still it was the failure of a larger system, like an economic downturn, that required them to step up.
Yet When Dweck trained children to view themselves as capable of growing their intelligence, they worked harder, more persistently, and with greater success on math problems they had previously abandoned as unsolvable.
A "Peter, I'd like you to stay for a minute after class." Calvin teaches my favorite body conditioning class at the gym.
"What'd
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, July 6, 2009
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