The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

" They called them "10 times companies" because they didn’t merely get by or just become successful. They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." They truly thrived.

Uncertainty 81

Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? Developing people is a process — not an event.

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

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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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. In addition there are 84.1 Design the service for the patient.

Health Care 12

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. So we've found that the most successful open innovation partnerships are built when ideas are framed as "options." Know the risks and the costs.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Strengthen the board and develop a kitchen cabinet.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

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. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

What makes such a transformation successful? From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Allow time and persevere. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Communicating successes like these is a powerful way to bring other physicians on board. Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke. Here we describe three examples of clinicians who are using outcomes measurement to improve clinical care.

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Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” What successful companies are doing right. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. Insight Center.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. The Big Picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Debbie Laskey developed her brand marketing and communications expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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Brand Tips Media Customer Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. Here’s the issue, which is not new but it has grown more important with the developments above: Many of the attributes that predict good outcomes are not within our control.

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Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Will badges require successful course completion? What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? But is it enough?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. This suggests a more significant contributor to a successful coaching outcome is a person's state of mind rather than the qualifications and skills of the coach.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. Most industries in the U.S.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. Cities that want to grow can be even more successful by also focusing on the entrepreneurs and their companies that qualify as gazelles.

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Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result was multiple product launches and more than 10 years of limited or no success in the connected home space. In spite of the project’s potential, your success is unlikely.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. No executive development program was held at Enron. Running the business. Executives.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. It’s clear that he thinks he’s gotten both too much credit and too much blame, but he has also developed an interesting theory – that good central bank performance actually breeds bubbles and crashes.

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