CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

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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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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.“ As a keynote speaker and change coach, I have the privilege of working with a lot of awesome organizations. Organizations only change when the people change. And after all, the culture in your organization.

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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.).

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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? So one would think that, in light of this, boards of directors would be actively steering their organizations through the digital revolution, right? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Not likely. This is disturbing.

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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!” Second, organizations should give their people specific training in innovation. It befalls organizations to train their talent pool accordingly.

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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. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan explained that the chance of a radiation related fatality in a Japanese nuclear plant is one per one million years. Accidents happen and organizations expose themselves to losses and reputational risks because of the ways they communicate the risks associated with their products and services.

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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. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust. Employing cognitive ambidexterity.

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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. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

You need to assess your human, social, political, financial, technological, and natural-resource capital, as well as your access to key markets, to see if shortcomings in any of these areas might seriously impede scaling. You also need to consider each of the seven capabilities noted above (i.e., Staffing, Communicating, etc.)

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. For example, your skin is an organ. Meaningful prediction, hitting the trifecta, has also helped the organization see a reduction in cost per sepsis case. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. It means we are moving into an era in which every company and organization must expect that secrets will get out. What does the new reality mean for business?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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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. That’s why so many countries are moving ahead with ambitious plans in this sector.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

as it’s known, Čapek’s robots were mass produced workers assembled from artificially synthesized organic material. By 2003, there were 800,000. Technology' Then, in 1920, a Czech writer named Karel Čapek wrote a play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, coining a new meaning for the word. In R.U.R. ,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered. It might have been due to getting over the hump of the technology transition from VHS to DVD.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

But there’s an often-overlooked factor that can make the difference between success and failure: a leader’s ability to go far outside the organization—mobilizing networks of critical expertise—to get help in solving problems. Outside the organization? Collaboration Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare. million to 3.3

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In the Columbia shuttle disaster , junior engineers knew that there was critical foam damage on the shuttle, but they did not dare to speak up to more senior managers in a meeting on January 24, 2003. This means leaders have to increase the attention capacity in an organization. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. ” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. But Navy SEALs go uncomfortably beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Why do organizations like Microsoft and Google care about languages with so few speakers? 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

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. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. These are the double-bind dilemmas that we as a society need to banish before women can contribute fully within organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. The Rumanians awarded the contract to Firestone. It is a measure of the state of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. These first three paths are primarily organic in nature. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious. Great managers can help improve job satisfaction and employee retention by leading their organizations with a strong vision, strategic execution and opportunities for career growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Especially in the consumer electronics category, where technologies shift with blinding speed, customers are often happy to take care of these purchases all at once, in person, even if it means spending a few dollars more. They offer the space up to local organizations for seminars, meetings, and parties, whether bike-related or not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

from 1994 to 2003. sense, it entails a potentially disastrous failure of the imagination, an inability to appreciate all the exigencies the client confronts in trying to actually get something done, much less changed, within his organization. Let us be fair to the man and the firm he headed. These are not criminal charges.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

T URNING AROUND an organization requires a new story. When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. Overhaul Technology 5. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The truth about why some organizations succeed and others struggle and fail is more complex than the desires and actions of any single person. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. And I'm not sure leadership *causes* things to happen, although we certainly like to think and hope that it does.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently? One of them has clearly been information technology. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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