Future of Work Briefs
2014
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Generations And The Workplace Of The Future
April 01 | David Lange, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Let’s look 10 years into the future. New approaches and philosophies around work are already emerging as a new generation of employees joins the workforce, as companies globalize, and as new industry sectors mature into their own unique models of work. What might be part of the workplace of 2024?
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How Intuit Innovates by Challenging Itself
March 28 | Hal Gregersen, Professor of Leadership, INSEAD | Comments (0)We know that questioning can trigger innovative thinking. But the key to truly changing the status quo is identifying the right question. Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted interviews with global leaders.
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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella
March 28 | Dennis Carey, Vice Chairman, Korn/Ferry International | Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Comments (0)In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. His challenges will be enormous.
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Microsoft and the Case for the Insider CEO
March 28 | Walter Frick, Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)Yesterday’s announcement by Microsoft that insider Satya Nadella would take over as CEO hardly seemed to inspire investors. The company’s stock price barely budged, no doubt in part because Nadella had been the rumored frontrunner but also perhaps because he was widely seen as the “safe” choice.
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A Board’s Unrealistic Hopes Can Derail a CEO Succession
March 27 | Jeffrey Cohn, Partner, Heidrick & Struggles | Comments (0)Whether it’s the world’s largest technology company or a small manufacturer trying find its niche, just about every organization looking for a new chief executive faces the same problem: How do you find a leader who can both innovate and create a culture of disciplined execution?
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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
March 26 | Robert Sutton, Professor, Stanford Engineering School | Comments (0)Today is Facebook’s 10th anniversary. On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” A story in the Harvard Crimson a few days later was headlined “Hundreds Register for the New Facebook Website.”
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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work
March 25 | Matt Ariker, Chief Operating Officer, McKinsey's Consumer Marketing Analytics Center | Jesko Perrey, Director, McKinsey & Company | Comments (0)A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had and identify opportunities.
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CEOs Should Imagine They’re at Davos Every Day
March 25 | Justin Blake, Leader, Global Executive Positioning Team, Edelman | Comments (0)Trust in companies — which collapsed during the financial crisis — has improved in most countries, but according to our Edelman Trust Barometer, this recovery of confidence has stalled. CEOs are trusted by a mere 43% of the survey’s respondents; only government officials fared worse (36%).