Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. Diversity. billion hit to earnings). billion hit to earnings). Redundancy and buffers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Co-founders also bring diversity of talent and high dedication, and mitigate the loneliness and stress of life at a young company. Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Traditional rice cookers operate on clear input and output principles—one cup rice, two cups water, thirty-five minutes’ cooking. Adopt a flexible attitude and practices and absorb the diversity of nutrients inside—even if they look different from the plain, white rice grains of yesteryear.

Commitment 8

Commitment Quality Stress Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. Many people get to the top without much diverse experience. They are able to relate to diverse audiences. The good news is that most of the people who get to top management positions are smart enough.

Agility 120

Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. The first is organizational myopia.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation in 2003, the most widely used form of open innovation has been innovation contests. The lesson here is that if open innovation creates a vast flow of diverse products, it makes achieving any scale economies very difficult. Target, Walmart).

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8