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What Impact Does Foreign Direct Investment Have On Productivity?

The Horizons Tracker

” Impact investment The researchers analyzed investment data from over 200 countries between 2002 and 2012 to help them construct a global FDI network and evaluate the economic productivity of both home and host country using “total factor productivity”, which measures the output that is produced from a fixed amount of input.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

For instance, a 2002 study of major construction projects found that 86% went over budget. When was the last time you saw a major planned project suffer from a cost overrun ? It’s not as common as you might think for a project with a clear plan to come in at or under budget. In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2%

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Inconsistent Bossing: A Surefire Way to Disengage

Great Leadership By Dan

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being in a bad mood or giving an employee constructive criticism. What we’re after is ensuring that whatever reinforcement we give is constructive and is based on the job done and not an irrelevant fleeting emotion that we brought into the workplace. Let’s get scientific for a second.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

One of the most critical lessons I learned from climbing mountains and the corporate ladder is that every member of a well-constructed sales team should have a specific role, skillset, and set of responsibilities that aligns with the exigencies of the business being pursued.

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10 Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams

Tim Milburn

Criticism is constructive and is oriented toward problem solving and removing obstacles. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002). Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed.

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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

In premodern times, as the great cathedrals of Europe were constructed, the master builder held all of the necessary knowledge in his head and directed huge teams, but the projects were not collaborative. The shift is from that of a master-builder, as Gawande describes in The Checklist Manifesto , to a more collaborative mindset.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review). That’s wrong…it’s a leader’s most important job” (from Larry Bossidy, former CEO, Honeywell, Inc.).