Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Technology supporting innovative teachers and school leaders will be the solution for our students. But there's more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The days of the ‘Great Man’ theory of Leadership – where one sole leader rules over the masses from their ivory tower, are long gone. A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. This isn’t a one-off conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Was your only goal to minimize time spent (in which case you skipped lunch) or to maximize time spent (in which case you are still eating)?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

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? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs. Consider Sodexho.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. But while a dedicated lab expands a restaurant’s capacity for R&D, innovation more importantly has to be embedded in the DNA of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Bottom line…good advisors make things happen and get things done at the behest of their clients for the purpose of enabling the accomplishment of anything ranging from a single task to a lifelong goal. Now that I’ve stated my case, it’s time for you to weigh-in…what say you?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. In the meantime, the competition is managing their own innovation and coming up with similar or better improvements to their own products. No innovation remains innovative for long. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need.

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