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The advent of the fiduciary rule led the industry to make changes that may not be reversed, according to Aron Szapiro, Morningstar Inc.’s director for policy research. After the Labor Department’s announcement in 2016, financial companies began moving to comply with it. Bank of America...
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July 10, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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April 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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March 29, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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Sometimes O’Neil’s comments on corporations are not as nuanced as you’d expect from a math-prof-turned-hedgefunder. “The model is optimized for efficiency and profitability, not for justice or the good of the ‘team.’ This is, of course, the nature of capitalism,” she writes. Yes, but there...
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October 12, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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What we learned is that young people want to do good as well as do well. They really do want to come to work thinking that they’re going to do something that matters.
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September 15, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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It does not take much, a simple shake of the head by an influential person, for a whole team to know what is expected of them.
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August 18, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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Data we’ve collected show that in the U.S only 30 percent of people are engaged at work. There’s another 52 percent that are what we’d call not engaged, who do the minimum required but don’t really go above and beyond. And then there’s another 18...
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May 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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When we’d removed the influences that pulled an organization down, we didn’t have to crack the whip to get people going again.
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September 3, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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“We had solved a lot of the hard problems, “ says Jeff Hammerbacher, one of the first data scientists at Facebook, who left in 2008 to start Cloudera, which makes data analytics software. “I kind of knew what it would look like in five years,...
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April 22, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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[Ellen] Pao has also raised an incident in which one of the firm’s senior partners, former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane, asked her and another female colleague to take notes at a partners meeting. “I just froze, I wasn’t sure what to do,” Pao testified on...
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March 31, 2015 Bruce Benson
Communication
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At Jet, there will be no annual performance reviews, because [Marc] Lore thinks feedback should be immediate and civil. … And Lore isn’t making any of his employees sign noncompetes; he says that … without such stipulations “there’s more loyalty and trust that is built.”...
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February 17, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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A project team moves through several stages of growth and each stage has issues that the project manager may have to manage.
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October 16, 2014 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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That’s exactly the mix you want to foster in a team. On one hand, you have your innovators. These are your dropouts and visionaries.
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October 2, 2014 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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When I began to focus on numbers of customers and associated income, it pretty much sucked the soul out of the whole effort.
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March 11, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.
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March 4, 2014 Bruce Benson
Training
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