Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The problem was compounded in 2004 when the structure was changed to expand oversight of the cemetery from two organizations to four.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The concept of "two-in-a-box" leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

So here it goes: I challenge you to do a two-year, full-time stint in government leadership, and to do it before your 70th birthday. Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Rather, a stint in government leadership can be the most fulfilling and exciting leadership adventure of a lifetime.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Its tool and engineering cycle time dropped 50% from 2004 to 2009, costs went down and it produces higher-quality products. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

million cost of the ad. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. HotJobs was another that bought Super Bowl ad time, and the story behind its first commercial features prominently in internet lore. They had revenue, after all.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. Apple learned this the hard way.

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