Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

After all, after you’ve spent so much time and effort to set up the right values and build a great culture of accountability that should lead to greatness, how do you know you’re getting there – or better still, how can you show your team you’re getting there? Separate the critical few from the trivial many.

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Metrics Leadership Operations Report 214

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

The growing reality in retrospect is that these same principles not only made me an effective leader, but they enabled me to develop something in the workplace that every organization strives for but often struggles to achieve: team cohesiveness. Team cohesiveness doesn’t simply happen, it is created. Did it empower you?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks. ” Modified behavior.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 91

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 4, 2015

For example, when I was SVP of Operations of Bresnan Communications from 2003-2010 and made hundreds and hundreds of speeches to rally our teammates in city after city in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I never made the same speech twice.

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Leadership Metrics Video Newsletter 150

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. Small victories” I declared to myself.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

After the coach learned that a young African-American, second-string guard on his team, Clarence Walker, would not be allowed to participate in the tournament because of the color of his skin, he declined the offer. The coach decided to accept the NAIB’s offer, and the team packed up to head to the play-offs in Kansas City.

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Truly experiential learning has a higher probability of being adopted because it uses the experience – like walking on coals, doing trust-falls with team members – to shift the underlying beliefs where the change takes place.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Truly experiential learning has a higher probability of being adopted because it uses the experience – like walking on coals, doing trust-falls with team members – to shift the underlying beliefs where the change takes place.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. Leading this inter-service team — which included Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and Delta Force — he needed to find new ways to disrupt Al-Qaeda and get these disparate branches of elite U.S.

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Team Company Silverman Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high? Here are five common ones I’ve seen or made myself: Mistake #1: Enabling team member silos, divorced from execution. Managers need to create a culture of continuous measurement on a team. To Twitter?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be.  Please keep rising and keep speaking.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 23, 2013

When leaders want to know how their team building is doing, they just need to listen to their teammates pass information down through the ranks. We bought a cable company back in 2003 that had been part of a much larger company. In fact, there is a specific “tell” that comes down to the use of a single word.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In 2003 this collaborative learning model grew out of Dr. Arora’s frustration that he could serve only a fraction of patients in New Mexico with hepatitis C. At the start, a team of specialists with a deep knowledge of hepatitis C gathered virtually in a conference room at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

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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. It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start. Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Build trust.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. He began to involve others, choosing a team based on who he knew might be interested within his social network. "We Litter was still all over the street.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Rotman School of Management, and the National University of Singapore Business School sought to quantify the effect of political connections in China, looking specifically at the TV manufacturing industry from 1993 to 2003, a period of significant liberalization.

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Politics Metrics Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 13

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. However, human cognition is far more complex. G., & Bersoff, D.

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Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

When a blizzard hit Baltimore in 2003, the roundhouse roof of the B&O Railroad Museum collapsed, damaging the finest collection of historic railway artifacts in the country and breaking hearts in the global community of rail fans. ” Wilson and his team have fully realized the museum’s restoration and renewal.

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Crisis Storytelling Open-book Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

in 2003, an all-time high. (Of As with any significant shift in the larger business and economic context, it is the duty of the board to exert the required pressure on the CEO and the management of the company to understand and address the impact of digitization on the operations and the long term position of the organization.

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Consistent with the philosophy espoused in HBR way back in 2003 in the article The Myth of Secure Computing , business leaders will need to decide which of their information assets are so valuable that they want to invest a lot to protect them, and which they can’t afford to protect vigorously.

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Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. Operating in this environment requires persistence, flexibility, and a deep-rooted desire to change the status quo. He was attracted to the country''s immense potential and the aspirational drive of its people.

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Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. To keep all stakeholders aligned over the course of the transformation, the company’s executive team should be clear and unrelenting about the vision of its future and the rationale thereof.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system. So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle? Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. An especially instructive example involves Greg Meyer, who has helped run customer-service operations for nearly a dozen companies. People may go online to banter. No matter; before long, they talk shop.

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Media Meyer Software Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

By overlaying a water stress map with Coca-Cola's operational plants, Seabright found that almost half of their global volume was in high stress and high growth areas. Since joining Coca-Cola in 2003, Seabright has helped facilitate hundreds of community water projects across the world. Integrated networks. Prepared mind.

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Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

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. This was a precarious time.

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