Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

in computer science and twenty years of management experience in tech companies; most recently, he had been the CEO of Novell. By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords.

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Tim Milburn

MAY 7, 2012

Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002). Team members actively diffuse tension and friction in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

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Team Construction Audience Follow-up 155

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

As part of their overall performance management, every Cisco employee is measured by peers and their managers on their collaboration factor, the result of which directly impacts how their performance is rated and, ultimately, the size of their total compensation. For more information please visit [link] and Amazon.

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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. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital).

Health Care 8

Health Care Core Competence Education Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times.

Uncertainty 81

Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

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 As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S. While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Employment in high-skill occupations increased between 1977 and 2002, but the paper found that, among the groups studied, all of that growth was in jobs that required both analytic and social skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements. Economy Managing yourself Research'

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Sports Teamwork Participative Class 14

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

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. For Beane and the A's it came from the scouts, the media, and even the team's on-the-field manager.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

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. Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

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%.

Team 10

Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

After 2002, the decline in U.S. Job growth has slowed significantly in the financial- and business-services sectors due to technology-driven service industrialization (automation, outsourcing, off-shoring, process re-engineering, and self-service). Almost no sector has been immune from China's manufacturing expansion, and U.S.

Retail 14

Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 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, 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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Conflict, when well managed and focused on a team's objectives, can generate more creative solutions than one sees in conflict-free groups. Now that we have powerful electronic technologies for communication and coordination, teams can do their work much more efficiently at a distance. Misperception #1: Harmony helps.

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Teamwork Efficiency Team Long-term 17

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? This is about using the technology of "business analytics" within the workforce, bringing vital statistics to the art of performance reviews.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Because our observation period was from the 1970s to 2002, we do not claim that these companies will continue to outperform in perpetuity.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

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. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

And, as reported in a recent New York Times article , women make up just 17% of Google’s engineering employees and 21% of its managers. One possible explanation for such drastic gender disparities is that they are caused by unconscious biases. But do these programs actually work?

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Training Diversity Human Resources Committee 11

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. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

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. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. While technology has greatly expanded the potential for global connectivity, policies matter too and can override it.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. billion worth of buybacks from 1986 through 2002. The investors’ leader, Harry J. GM did $20.4

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mindfulness is one of the all-time most brilliant technologies for helping to alleviate human suffering and for bringing out our extraordinary potential as human beings.". "If you want to transform an organization it's not about changing systems and processes so much as it's about changing the hearts and minds of people," says Weiss.

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. growth in GDP. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. Surprisingly, 10 of the 16 non-doctor workers are purely administrative and management staff, receptionists and information clerks, and office clerks.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8