Building Personal Strength

APRIL 17, 2012

Gardner (1912-2002). For example, I've learned which part of the brain performs the mental operation we call "judgment." It's often called the "executive" part of the brain, because it coordinates functions such as evaluation, logic, intuition, creativity, problem solving, decision making, planning, organizing and managing.

Leadership 92

Leadership Self-aware Creativity Bottom-up 92

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

It’s impossible to have a good strategy poorly executed. That’s because execution actually is strategy – trying to separate the two only leads to confusion. Articles like this are well meaning and all set out to overcome the shortfalls of “execution.”

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Sull Charan 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. He is training senior executives, leaders and employees in organizations like Google, Nike, Accenture, GE and many other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. By Patrick M. By Daniel H.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. But there are plenty of others determined to circle the wagons around their pale, male executive pool. When a critical mass of women is present in the executive suite and the boardroom, positive things can happen. since 2010.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Pragmatism.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Executives had actually heard this request all along. Only when the less-expensive solution failed were executives finally willing to try the extended breakfast. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When I was interviewing to be the executive director of a healthcare non-profit, the People's Health Clinic (PHC), members of its board of directors questioned my experience. From there, they set an order of battle, an operations plan, and timetable with responsibilities delineated. They wanted to know what someone coming from the U.S.

Health Care 13

Health Care Delegation PR Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. In that environment, prosecutors focused on large corporations and their high-profile, highly paid executives.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Committee Ethics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Adopt the right approach to strategy and execution in each part of the business.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

3 steps to building virtue into your organization: Introducing and executing this commitment to virtue requires you to adopt a consistent, three-stage process of, 1) establishing standards, 2) reviewing standards, and 3) making adjustments accordingly. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Our colleagues in Corporate Executive Board’s HR practice have documented an extraordinary shift in the relationship between individual achievement and business unit profitability, both across the enterprise and within the sales function. Even in sales, network performance now accounts for about 44% of the impact. An HBR Insight Center.

Team 10

Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Dell, which adopted customer-centricity in 2009, has seen positive results too: After aligning its corporate business units around customer groups, such as large enterprises and consumers, the company learned to operate seamlessly in the new structure and improved its financial performance. Low industry profitability.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The prevailing executive mind-set was "We take care of our people for life, as long as they show up every day and don't cause trouble.". Its operating income recovered from a $300 million loss to a $1.7 Employees were naturally wary of any potential threat to that bargain. And Aetna's financial performance reflected that. billion gain.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. Hunter and Schmidt (1990) suggest that it might be 48% for those executives who rank one standard deviation above average. Again, the news is good.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs. By answering these five questions: 1.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Board members often are able to provide insights that top executives may not have considered.

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : Now I know you’ve also had the opportunity to work with a lot of CEOs and a lot of executives and different organizations that work with servant-leadership and try and implement servant-leadership in their organizations. What do you believe executives find to be the most difficult part of practicing servant-leadership?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : Now I know you’ve also had the opportunity to work with a lot of CEOs and a lot of executives and different organizations that work with servant-leadership and try and implement servant-leadership in their organizations. What do you believe executives find to be the most difficult part of practicing servant-leadership?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

That was in 2002. Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. He was more focused on taking out Bourne than the proper execution of the mission. T he first time I heard the name Jason Bourne, I had no clue who he would be. Yet it happened.

Leadership 120

Leadership Cost Planning Rogers 120

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

Interview by John LeTourneau , Executive Coach, CO2 Partners. The last time I flew in coach was 2002. Travel agents and agencies are operating in an antiquated model that only focuses on price and are not in touch with what today’s business traveler really is looking for in business travel.

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Palmisano became leader of a great company that had stumbled badly in the 1980s and had been returned to health in the 1990's by Lou Gerstner.

Software 15

Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point. Then in 1997, Netflix happened.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

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. It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes.

Succession 10

Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 10

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. It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes.

Succession 8

Succession Software Commitment Report 8

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. You do not have to have been the greatest executive in the field of the coachee, but you have got to understand the “game.&# Ultimately, I agree with Peter.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Importantly, profits kept pace. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. Executives never stayed long. Executives. No executive development program was held at Enron.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57