Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. He developed three principles of short- and long -term performance that forced them to consider the long- and short-term implication in every decision they made: 1. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. I believe the answer is yes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. Equally important, each member should meet the essential “ROPE” criteria I developed over decades of climbing. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. Inside ROPE teams provide another important benefit.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Your challenge is to develop and model the behaviors required to inspire people and teams to genuinely break through organizational silos and make collaboration a competitive advantage. But are your resources truly applied as optimally as possible to your market opportunities in a way that best serves the total business?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 market for e-commerce processing was saturated, went with the latter.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. 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? There was lots of resistance.

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