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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Extensive assessment data has revealed that learning agility, or the ability to apply past experiences and lessons learned to new situations and first-time challenges, and self-awareness are proven predictors of future success. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. ” and “Come home safe and soon!”

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A deliberately byzantine system of virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and thus the identity of clients, Tor has been around since 2001, when programmers from M.I.T. That could change anytime. and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory introduced it at a California security conference.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”-Mark What was the key to his success?

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 17, 2010

This meant that I was involved in some kind of combat operation several times a week—air-mobile assaults, search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, and so forth. I remember being afraid one night in 2001. They risked failure, humiliation, disqualification, and, they thought, personal injury. Lives depended on it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Iterative and incremental development methods were also a major contributor to the successful creation of the X-15 hypersonic jet in the 1950s. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas. Sutherland and other proponents of scrum were among them.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The report neatly summarized all this in a “Financial Highlights” table with 14 measures and covered “operating and financial review” in a page and a half.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. The successful large firms in the outperforming economies act as catalysts for change, through investment and building capability among their suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

But what does a successful CI professional's future look like? In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. Get operational expertise, and fast. CI leaders often spend time delivering insight to colleagues in operational functions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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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. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Their sole measures of success are incremental sales and profit margin.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Instead, right from the start, he, along with Ron Williams (who joined Aetna in 2001 and became its president in 2002), took time to visit the troops, understand their perspective, and involve them in the planning. Its operating income recovered from a $300 million loss to a $1.7 This time, however, they were in for a surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

When presentations expert Nancy Duarte and I analyzed successful change initiatives, or movements , in business and society, we found that their leaders invested a lot of time in early listening tours and then empathically and systematically articulated their vision to one stakeholder group after another — even in the face of pressure to act.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. Go after it aggressively, even if it means risking making hiring and operating mistakes and wasting capital — so long as this capital is relatively cheap, as it was for Akamai in the midst of the Internet bubble.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Organizational success lies in acknowledging the complexity of subjective interpretation and leveraging collective intelligence. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. References: Bandura, A. Jossey-Bass.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. The quality of the crops, and the care of the growers, are key to the success of the business. ”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

In a recent survey , more than 40 percent of IT professionals said that the spike in internet use has affected their office computer operations in recent years, in some cases causing their systems to grind to a halt. It's been estimated that 2.5 This year, estimates of lost productivity range from $175 million to $1 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

To endure, companies must excel at all three boxes, or their success could be very short-lived. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. “There’s a lot of research about new-product branding, but as best as we could tell, nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand a successive generation,” Gourville says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. And Kodak totally missed that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In a 2001 interview with HBR, UPS’s then CEO Jim Kelly described the growth of the company: “For decades, we’ve been able to grow tremendously simply by expanding our core business geographically. Finley and her team face the problem of more – and the success of her growing organization depends on solving it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

. “The company charged wholesalers on average about $97 for a bottle of the 10-milligram pills, the smallest dosage, while the maximum strength, 80 milligrams, ran more than $630, according to 2001 sales data the company disclosed in litigation with the state of West Virginia.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). If their campaign is successful, like Trian’s was at GE, they’ll have a seat on the board and a new CEO and management. Comstock is out.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Jim Collins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” In other words, Bunge views success as the result of exercise and work going hand-in-hand. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. But when you combine Amazon's success with its resolute unwillingness to take financial markets too seriously, the result is an amazing thing to see.

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