The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It seems logical to suppose that as industries become more concentrated, the power coalesces around the producers, thus making things that bit harder for suppliers and employees. This then flows down into the workforce of those companies, as profits tend to be lower. ” Gauging the market. Benefiting consumers.

Industry 108

Industry Supply Chain Constraint Retail 108

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, who held servant leadership principles (though many believe the company no longer reflects the values of it’s founder), understood this concept: The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. Shares Power and Control (Frick & Sipe).

Servant Leader 197

Servant Leader Greenleaf Delegation Collins 197

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alas, as research from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business demonstrates, this may not be a power that board members actually want. Recent years have seen a growing number of regulations introduced to provide corporate boards with more oversight. ” Well managed.

CEO 83

CEO Survey Planning Advice 83

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When Napster was released in 1999 pretty much all the way through until its demise in 2002, considerable unrest swirled around the platform. The authors believe this illustrates how the hack broke the monopoly power of the firm’s existing products and therefore incentivized them to create new offerings to compensate.

Innovation 81

Innovation Download Pharmaceuticals Creativity 81

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Steve Farber

JULY 17, 2014

Here now, is an entry from my notebook on November 19, 2002. (I’ve reveal yourself publicly) and focus that powerful intent on an audacious mission (change the world). Maybe it’ll help you get some insight into your own creative process. At the very least, you can have yourself a chuckle at mine.

Constraint 99

Constraint Open-book Creativity Process 99

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Is motivation an area that managers and companies should be concerned? Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. What do you think?

Motivation 139

Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I asked myself that question during the summer of 2002 and began a journey to unpack truth from myth. Under Washington’s leadership and the culture he helped create, connection among the colonists united them to defeat the preeminent military power of their age and set the stage for a new nation to emerge.

Sharpe 249

Sharpe Follow-up Advice Reputation 249

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 20, 2020

Consistent with earlier research, Cigna, the insurance company, reported 2019 survey results that found two-thirds (61%) of Americans over the age of 18 are lonely and that loneliness continued to rise from its earlier study in 2018. In cultures of control, the people with power, influence and status rule over others.

Stress 195

Stress Video Learning-by-Doing Analysis 195

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

So we’ve zeroed in on the world’s leading integrated energy company’s efforts to improve gender diversity in the workplace. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions. How do you measure the value these programs bring to the company?

Diversity 107

Diversity Succession Disaggregation Self-aware 107

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Most companies mistakenly believe that competencies are the #1 driver of performance. . Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. Common company practices tend to focus on behavioral changes to increase performance. All behavior is motivated.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

There was a time in business when hoarding information was a source of organizational power. For as long as companies have pursued profits, the size of one's organization has defined the size of one's financial opportunity. Explain the guiding principles of your decision-making style at each stage of your organization's decision paths.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

The research drew upon a public opinion dataset that was compiled between 2002 and 2017 to allow for the attitude towards immigration of a few generations of British people to be tracked. This spell of reflection proves incredibly powerful in helping that individual understand who they are, and what values define them. Changing views.

Travel 64

Travel Diversity Politics Education 64

Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2012

Used only when the company is looking for certain psychological types or the person shows High Potential and is possibly ready for a promotion. It is impossible to clarify ‘expertise’ and how that expert status was acquired. The assessments are often used only at critical points in the persons career development.

Leadership 147

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Long-term Report 147

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Early last year, our company, Duarte Inc., We had turned our org chart on its side, so that nearly every person in the company either had a new boss or was a new boss. Remember how Howard Schultz launched his renewed vision for Starbucks when he returned to the company as CEO in 2008? was well into a great season of change.

Company 8

Company Mission Statement Bond Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

companies are facing pressure to meet earnings expectations, and research indicates that meeting analyst forecasts is a more important benchmark than meeting the prior year’s earnings or avoiding losses. Do workplace injuries occur more commonly in companies that are facing increased pressure to meet earnings expectations?

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Company Short-term Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. link] mikemyatt Hi Paul: Great insights, and you make an excellent point as well.

Media 318

Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. These were dark days for the company, yet I could see a world of possibility and potential very clearly. Over the years most of the companies that supported Camden's tax base have moved out, they've abandoned ship.

Company 14

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Should companies use funds from the corporate treasury to advocate directly for or against political candidates in contested elections? More than half of the S&P 100 have instituted such governance measures, but this trend does not appear to be taking hold with smaller public companies. Avoid Direct Expenditures Altogether.

Company 12

Company Politics Policies Proposal 12

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. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Gardner delivered a speech that may be one of the most quietly influential speeches in the history of American business — a text that has been photocopied, passed along, underlined, and linked to by senior executives in some of the most important companies and organizations in the world. But his focus that day was on neither money nor power.

Collins 15

Collins McKinsey Advice Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

Long-term 14

Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Since companies can’t seem to solve the divisive problem of exorbitant CEO pay on their own, legislation may well turn out to be the best fix. Investors have used this process to voice their concerns, which is all to the good (it puts pressure on companies to change their practices), but the votes are nonbinding.

CEO 8

CEO Proposal Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

It tells the story of the company's financial priorities and evolution better than a few hundred words or pages of tables ever could (click on the rectangles between FY 2002 and 2011 for speedier viewing): It's visual evidence that, indeed, the massive organization had become " a sports and entertainment company with a newspaper problem."

Sports 8

Sports Trends Media Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. Instead, the independent auditor is effectively chosen by the company’s chairman, subject to board approval.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. As one of the world's largest lens manufacturers, with 30 percent global share of the lens industry, the company had special reason to consider the enormity of India's eyesight problems.

Constraint 15

Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. In a 2002 HBR article titled “Predicting the Unpredictable,” my business partner Eric Bonabeau introduced the concept of a gent-based simulation (ABS), which at that time was a relatively novel approach to solving complex business problems through computer simulations.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The income redistribution policies implemented during Lula's era consolidated a huge middle class, providing a powerful and new consumer market, notably in North and Northeast regions, where growth rates are comparable with the Chinese ones. There are many reasons to be optimistic about Brazil's post-election future.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

For example, the Association for Advancing Automation said in response that we "are missing the bigger picture" by not recognizing that American companies are "successfully implement[ing] automation technologies instead of going out of business or sending manufacturing overseas." Manufacturing employment decline is a global phenomenon.

Document 8

Document Technology Hotels Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. Joseph Schumpeter, the noted economist, said — in 1909 — that small companies were more inventive than large ones. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.

Operations 16

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

” At the heart of this work is the concern that algorithms are often opaque, biased, and unaccountable tools being wielded in the interests of institutional power. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms? Insight Center.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. So, if the company misses its quarterly earnings target, they sell their shares. Some companies take matters into their own hands.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

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. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As The Economist nicely summarized in 2002: But the fact remains that on everything that mattered most to Marx himself, he was wrong. The real power he claimed for his system was predictive, and his main predictions are hopeless failures. Who tells governments how companies will be regulated? Who in the end owns the companies?

Class 9

Class Politics Open-book System 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

company that makes wearable HD video cameras. In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. It pulled me out of a problem orientation and put me into a solution orientation, which is a more powerful way to live. I’m not sure what we’ll do with the data.

Video 12

Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 12