Commemorating Labor Day 2023, I take a look at some key trends and challenges that have emerged over the past 30 years.
Research and Insights Archive
Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
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WEBINAR: HRBPs: Prioritizing the Real Business Priorities
March 20, 2023
With Dave Millner and Alec Levenson
WEBINAR: Embracing Uncertainty with Agile Work Design Experiments
March 8, 2023
With John Boudreau and Alec Levenson (Host)
Systems diagnosis tools and techniques
Originally posted in LinkedIn: Part One | Part Two Systems diagnosis tools and techniques – Part One Systems diagnoses and solutions are both the answer to a lot of what is wrong with corporate performance – and a source of the problem at the same time. Most issues...
WEBINAR: Leveraging Science and Data to Increase HR’s Impact
December 13, 2022
with Alec Levenson
Is the sky about to fall on People Analytics?
Originally published on LinkedIn. In recent years, as the global economy expanded, interest rates were low, and companies had a relatively easy time making money, the size and breadth of People Analytics (PA) groups seemed to be ever-increasing. As a result, even with...
WEBINAR: Fluid Talent and Technology: The “Secret Sauce” to Building Organizational Capability
October 28, 2022
with Alec Levenson and Dave Millner
PODCAST: Using System Thinking & People Analytics to Drive Competitive Advantage
with Alec Levnson, Cole Napper, and Scott Hines on the Directionally Correct podcast
How to Steer Clear of Groupthink
by Alec Levenson, Jennifer Mueller, and Sarah Harvey
Harvard Business Review
The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD
The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD
with Alec Levenson and Maura Stevenson
Repricing work and consumption in the wake of Covid-19
When Covid-19 gripped the global economy in the first half of 2020, there was an immediate shock to the economic system because the “price” of doing work in person was suddenly, and quite dramatically shifted. If the virus mitigation measures and vaccines rollouts over the past 19 months had put the world on a path to sustainable economic recovery heading into 2022, the negative economic impacts would be going away quickly right now.
A Long Time Still Until the New Normal
Even before the Delta variant of Covid-19 swept across the globe, there already were clear signs that the economic disruptions that set in a year and a half ago were still going strong. Adding in Delta further increases uncertainty, pushing back any new equilibrium well into 2022 at the earliest, and likely well beyond