Leading Blog
JUNE 23, 2020
W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He inherited unhealthy accounting practices, unresolved environmental liabilities, and a board and staff that were denying reality. He did both.
The Center For Leadership Studies
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. Several years ago, when we were newlyweds, my husband was diagnosed with the flu. Unfortunately, he was misdiagnosed and eight days later at the local emergency room, we learned that his appendix was about to burst! Harvard Business Review.
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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
In fact, if you take a close look at the data, it’s amazing how bad many of us in business are at utilizing our time and staying focused on our goals. The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002.
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.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. percentage points of the 10.5
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2012
Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2011
You can't sit around being fearful; you must act, like Herb Kelleher, who insisted on cutting costs and running lean operations in good times, so that they would be prepared for the next storm, imagined or real. Empirical Creativity. Well, just staying alive does not produce greatness. You must also create. Market hype? He did not care.
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