{"id":2340,"date":"2014-09-12T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:31:27","slug":"tamara-j-erickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/2014\/09\/12\/tamara-j-erickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamara J. Erickson, Founder &amp; CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wed 10\/1, 7pm &#8211; 8pm EST<br \/>\nForum: Cultivating Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author, a leading expert on generations in the workplace, and a widely-respected authority on leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations. She has three times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, the respected ranking of global business thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson is an Executive Fellow, Organisational Behaviour, at London Business School, where she has designed and co-directs the school\u2019s premier leadership programme for senior-most executives, Leading Businesses into the Future. She is the founder and CEO of Tammy Erickson Associates, www.tammyerickson.com, a research-based firm of renowned thought leaders and senior business leaders committed to developing insights into the challenges that today\u2019s businesses are facing and offering a specific set of services that help companies reshape their organizational practices. She has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles: \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Retire Retirement\u201d (March 2004), winner of the McKinsey Award, \u201cManaging Middlescence\u201d (March 2006), \u201cWhat It Means to Work Here,\u201d (March 2007), and \u201cEight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams,\u201d (November 2007), as well as the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School Press (2006). She has also co-authored an MIT Sloan Management Review article, \u201cBridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams,\u201d (Summer 2007). Tammy is the author of one of Harvard Business Review\u2019s Breakthrough Ideas for 2008, \u201cTask, Not Time,\u201d (February 2008), one of HBR\u2019s Forethoughts on Unconventional Wisdom in a Downturn, \u201c\u2018Give Me the Ball\u2019 Is the Wrong Call,\u201d (December 2008), and the HBR Case Study \u201cGen Y in the Workforce\u201d (February 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Tammy recently completed a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today\u2019s workplace. Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation and Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work were published by Harvard Business Press in 2008. What\u2019s Next, Gen X? Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want was published in 2010. Her blog \u201cAcross the Ages\u201d is featured weekly on HBP Online (https:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/erickson\/).<\/p>\n<p>The research initiatives she and colleagues have undertaken include Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, The New Employee\/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employeeengagement through segmentation, and the Cooperative Advantage, done in collaboration with a team at London Business School, exploring the working practices of over 50 teams in 15 multi-nationals, representing the most extensive academically-grounded study of industry-based team working ever conducted. Her current research is focused on the implications of social enterprise software on the way we work.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&amp;D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/vip\/\">Back to VIP Guests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Tamara J. 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