Clayton Christensen,Harvard Business Review,Adam Grant,Vijay Govindarajan,Thomas H. Davenport

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  • Bergdís Ester Gísladóttirhas quoted6 years ago
    most productive contributors often burn out from carrying the weight of their teams.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted6 years ago
    One of them, Gary Joyal, makes a good living (if his Rolls-Royce is any indication) by connecting buyers and sellers of Dunkin’ Donuts franchises.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Some knowledge workers will step up to even higher levels of cognition; others will step aside and draw on forms of intelligence that machines lack. Some will step in, monitoring and adjusting computers’ decision making; others will step narrowly into highly specialized realms of expertise. Inevitably, some will step forward by creating next-generation machines and finding new ways for them to augment human strengths.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted6 years ago
    We conduct deep dives into the organization’s financial performance through quarterly operational reviews, and we conduct quarterly talent reviews, where we focus on the
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted6 years ago
    For example, the transactional and administrative work of HR, including managing benefits, could be cordoned off and reassigned, as some companies have begun to do. One option is to give those responsibilities to the CFO.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted7 years ago
    People should be paid according to how much value they contribute to the company—some combination of the importance of the job and how they handle it.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted7 years ago
    Many HR processes tend to treat all employees the same way, but in our observation, 2% of the people in a business drive 98% of the impact.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted7 years ago
    Here are three activities we think are critical: predicting outcomes, diagnosing problems, and prescribing actions on the people side that will add value to the business.
  • Aleksandra Desenkohas quoted7 years ago
    The chief executive must have a clear view of the tremendous contribution the CHRO could be making and spell out those expectations in clear, specific language.
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