Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism.

Books 347

Books Short-term Leadership Long-term 347

Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels. One of Gill’s first new hires was an “emotionally intelligent” VP of operations.

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Company Mission Statement Market Segmentation Franchising 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Attracting, retaining, and motivating employees are all core. 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. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources 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. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

How do you best motivate someone who you don’t have formal authority over? “To be a successful freelancer, you need to be self-motivated and able to work without someone looking over your shoulder,” says King. “Pay them market rate,” says Pink, “and if you value their work pay them more.”

Management 8

Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 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. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. 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.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59