Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I love the innovative structure. The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). I love the mix of gritty realism and humor. I love the dialogue. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device.

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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. His tenure had not ended. companies is around six years. million, a 35.4%

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Customer Service.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dear Meg: Becoming CEO of Hewlett-Packard is almost as big a deal as being Governor of California (your previous aspiration ) — and just as political. But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. There's no time for either. You must get right to work.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

At Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System, where I was CEO for 15 years, changing our model for physician reimbursement was one way we aimed to combat such practices and achieve value-based care. Physicians received their 20% innovation bonus. And it was an engaged physician leadership that drove the care redesign.

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Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. For many companies, this means extending their repertoire beyond the classical approach to strategy that relies on securing durable advantaged market positions through cost leadership or differentiation.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. But while a dedicated lab expands a restaurant’s capacity for R&D, innovation more importantly has to be embedded in the DNA of the organization.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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