LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

The plan must be cascaded properly from top to bottom of the organization so that front line staff knows how their work impacts the organization’s goals. Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review).

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 His goal is to make payments easy for the world’s small businesses and the platforms that serve them. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 77

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. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up. The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

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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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This means using direct observation, conducting practical experiments, and engaging directly with evidence, rather than relying on opinion, whim, and analysis alone (and, as a prior management consultant, I would include pure market analysis void of testing in this category). Markets down? Market hype? Competition severe?

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

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. Constraints need not be limiting.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. I shared our goals for 2005 with him. Every five years we increase the robustness of our goals, further stretching them.

CEO 8

CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

They're a metric, not a goal. That's because there's little legal or historical justification for making shareholder wealth maximization the goal of the corporation (Stout's 2002 Southern California Law Review article, " Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy ," is the best summary of the evidence on this).

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Instructors wear the clothing at in-store events like self-defense and goal-setting workshops, simultaneously building product awareness and forging ties with local communities. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Marketing 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Morey, Daryl; Maybury, Mark; Thuraisingham, Bhavani (2002).

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Human Resources 15

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. The value that an acquisition has depends on the alternatives that are available to achieve the same strategic goals and how long they will take. Defensive Moats.

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Company Price Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Our goal was to determine whether, how, and why feelings of rivalry between competitors influenced their propensity to take risk. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. Take conversions after touchdowns.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. By 2002, it was down to $9.42. Within five years, the stock had rebounded to $28 a share with market capitalization of $170 billion. Proceed: As he carried out his plan, he kept his focus on a single goal: saving the company. The company was in a free fall.

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Crisis Planning Learning-by-Doing Workshop 162

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Price Bond Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The goal was to help sales reps exchange information about complex accounts. In one account alone, the improvements have driven $3.5 million in incremental revenue.

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. We asked him about setting audacious goals. “The goals are only considered to be audacious by other people. It ended in a tie two years later.) I consider them to be achievable. We asked her how she stays ahead of the curve.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. ” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

“You have to spend extra time talking about what the goal is, how it connects to the big picture, and why it matters.” “Pay them market rate,” says Pink, “and if you value their work pay them more.” Still, he makes sure to ask questions and understand their goals, habits and schedules too.

Management 8

Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

The book has two goals: improving your travel life and saving you lots of money. It seeks to achieve those goals by helping you become a knowledgeable, empowered, and sophisticated traveler who has mastered an increasingly complex and frustrating system and can work it to his or her advantage. The last time I flew in coach was 2002.

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. Company Management.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

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). The workforce in India, China, Brazil, and other growth markets exploded in just 36 months. Think Tahrir Square as a corporate process.).

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. trillion now. But the U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

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. We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Managers should 1) tout the competence of the different team members and 2) ensure that the team has clear goals that everyone understands. area during the sniper attacks in 2002. There are two ways to assure you take best advantage of the benefits of swift trust.

How To 9

How To Environment Storytelling Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. Another possibility (my second hypothesis) is that different kinds of workers are competing in very different labor markets.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 It is fine to explore new market areas like this, but spending months or years without figuring out the details is dangerous and wasteful. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Accounting.

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Strategic Planning Golden Handcuff Committee Media 57