HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

Advertising 52

Advertising Rogers Finance Engineering 52

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great 's lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 14, 2016

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great 's lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great 's lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 6, 2014

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great ''s lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 56

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 56

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 25, 2014

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great ''s lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 58

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 58

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2013

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great 's lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 65

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 65

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Their ability to “deliver happiness” and release unexpected ‘must-have’ technologies respectively, are clearly not mere responses to the challenges they incur from their competition. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

Succession 210

Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good To Great 's lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

Collins 61

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 61

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9 Programs like the U.S.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Team leadership. Financial management. Change management. Any skills that are not needed or used now by the senior leadership team, but may be used at a later time, should be considered when developing the leadership training program. •Collaborative decision making and problem solving. Communication. Strategic planning.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches.

Team 11

Team Price B2B Tools 11

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. That might surprise some.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Intangible Assets 11

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

During our study we learned that a leader's everyday actions are one of the most powerful signals to their team and organization that innovation truly matters. Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. Lafley became CEO.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

Not long ago, people in Chrysler's headquarters joked that four strangers in an elevator qualify as a "team." Good managers don't direct, they "facilitate collaboration." So it goes with collaboration these days. No one works any longer, they collaborate. Collaboration leads to (of course!) It makes the world go 'round. Sound extreme?

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The hunt for Bin Laden from 2009–2010 yielded many lessons about managing a large, complex organization that is focused on varied missions under intense pressure. Where We Started.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Jobs did this when he saw the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) at PARC.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Team members were driven, they moved quickly, and there was a real esprit de corps.

Guidelines 11

Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Gleeson writes that the best managers are those who hire responsibly, and then support the people they hire. The FBI Could Easily Read Your Email, Too (MIT Technology Review). That’s according to Brent Gleeson at Inc. whose own leadership skills come courtesy of the Navy SEAL training program. IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE.

Banking 8

Banking Loyalty Morale Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail. If the structure of the management committee was a problem, they would have failed by now.

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

As organizations transition from product-centric to customer-centric, CI leaders are ideally positioned to build a data-driven business case to justify the organization's marketing technology and business intelligence needs. The ability to describe customers realistically and actionably. CI leaders already understand this.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The marketing team was getting lost in attribution, pulling the same search engine marketing levers, talking to the same audiences, and creating the same campaigns with diminishing returns. The situation was untenable.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. Without a plan, teams won’t know how to prioritize actions, and how to invest in those actions responsibly.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. Given Apple''s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs'' lead.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.".

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15