CO2

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We’ll share the rewards of our growth, and reward our people more generously than similar companies. We’ll take the extra step in technology and training, finding new ways to be more effective and to develop the people that every other company wants. We’ll create a place to work that shows how much we care.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Work-Life Balance Meaning According to Nancy Lockwood ’s 2003 Research Quarterly for SHRM , a work-life balance can be defined as “A state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” The use of the term can be traced back as far as 1986, but its frequency has multiplied in recent years.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. I began a search for reasons to be optimistic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Companies like Samsung, Google, or BMW—the top players in their respective industries—are prospering. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. We are living in the age of the superstar firm.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Kind regards, Ian 19 April Dear all, CMI's chief executive Ann Francke has been commenting on the importance of leadership in getting company culture right. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? You can learn more in FE News.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. When you start a company, what you’re really doing is getting other people to latch on to an idea. He adds this: Most companies end up building a system to protect themselves from people who lack judgment. The company was one dream. Then the game was on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. Economy Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Where the company is located. A good company usually begins with co-founders: the notion of a lone Edison willing a giant company into existence is rarely correct. The core values.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. vincent tsui for hbr.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ The economy, the organizational structures in our companies, our very own working space. Create a Culture of Change in Your Company. And he nailed it with that statement. Everything changes. Permanently.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. percentage points in 2003-2012. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Not likely. years in 2013 from 60.3 What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR. In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Jassy and Amazon could have come up with a solution to this internal scaling problem and stopped there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

Consider two scenarios: Company A is a medical device maker that just released a new pacemaker. Its competitor, Company B, released its latest version a week before. In these two fictitious scenarios, Company B does better in communicating the risk of its product. When risk communication fails, people become vulnerable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Some companies are beginning to solve this problem with online communities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. Set your company up for success. What Guzman and Stern add is a method for identifying the firms that are trying to grow. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8% Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

election mean for businesses is a fact that’s getting too little attention, but that CEOs and business leaders will definitely need to adjust to: it’s gotten much harder to keep your company’s secrets. It means we are moving into an era in which every company and organization must expect that secrets will get out.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. It’s not easy, as the financial turmoil of major European power companies demonstrates.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The idea that new technology transforms the way we communicate is not a new one — telephones, e-mails, text messages and tweets have all brought changes to how we express ourselves, how we gather information about others, even to how we think. We already talk through technology; inevitably, we'll be talking to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

I was fascinated with the platform this company was building and wondered what its business model might be. Fast forward four years and LinkedIn is a public company with a market cap of more than $9 billion and revenues of about $400 million. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. But LinkedIn's luck is only part of its story.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement. And where there are customers there can be differentiation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. My research has focused on how reviews affect choice among companies (in this case, restaurants).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

So how can a company spend more time on the valuable, expensive side and less on the free side? I use the term "proprietary data" after the 2003 HBR classic, "IT Doesn't Matter," by Nicholas Carr. There, he introduced the contrasting notions of "infrastructure" and "proprietary" technologies. This logic applies directly to data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards. tech companies are concerned. Rather than rehashing these points, I want to take a broader perspective and use the Uber-Didi deal to reflect more broadly on platform companies and globalization.

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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. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. So let’s consider what a company can do in a world that’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – that’s “VUCA” for short, a military term that’s been adopted by business. Diversity. billion hit to earnings).

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