Management Craft

AUGUST 4, 2012

The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012. Never-Ending New Beginnings: A Manifesto on Personal Impact. Download the PDF Version here - $10.00. Order the PRINT Version here - $15.00. A few days ago I told you all about my new "best of" collection available with the best 69 posts from the last eight years from this blog.

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Management Craft

AUGUST 1, 2012

The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012. This has enabled me to keep it easy and to keep the price down. It contains 69 of the very best posts. The book is called: Never-Ending New Beginnings: A Manifesto on Personal Impact. It costs $15.00 and is available here.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.) What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. We looked at the impact of leadership development programs in changing executive behavior.

Ethics 137

Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Mood-Factory introduced its first incandescent Mood-lites in 2004 and expanded the line to include flood, porch, and compact florescent bulbs in 2012. Mood-lites are light bulbs that emit soft, colored ambient light; helping to positively influence affected individuals’ mood.

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Resources Competitive Advantage Energy Retail 59

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 4, 2012

2004) recommends that the victim try ignoring verbal harassment. Copyright 2012. She recommends that victims inform authorities and their parents, so these adults can contact the bully's parents to confront and resolve the issue. David Walsh, author of Why Do They Act That Way? Do something about it. Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 22, 2012

He's the author of the best-selling book about teens, Why Do They Act That Way (Free Press, 2004), and president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family. Copyright 2012. The question is, are these violent video games harmful to children? Dr. David Walsh thinks so. Here's his position. Post by Dennis E.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Howard Morgan and I recently published an article entitled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved over 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. The training that they attended produced no more change than staying home and watching sitcoms. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com.

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Management Craft

JULY 27, 2012

The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012. BTW #2: Once I noticed the underlying theme of personal reinvention, the title for the collection popped right into my head. It will be called, Never-Ending New Beginnings: A Manifesto on Personal Impact. What do you think?

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Gilbert Document Blog Project 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

There were five finalists in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The 2012 candidates all had a sophisticated view of the advantages, not only of winning their bids, but also even of simply making a bid. Using London in 2012 as an example, the Opening Ceremony of the Games was fixed for 9:00GMT on July 27, 2012.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. References. Gandossy and M. Goldsmith, eds., Wiley, 2003. 2 “Leadership is a Contact Sport”, H. Morgan and M. Goldsmith, V. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc., In 2004, he joined the board of Petsmart Inc.,

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. ” There are several reasons why the top job is increasingly going to outsiders when boards have time to plan for succession, which was the case for nearly three-quarters of CEO hires from 2012 to 2015. .” one of the authors of the study.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. NEWS, January 2012. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Two Kansas City Star Reporters Told to Choose Who Gets Sacked NBCNews.com, December 2012. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose. Just asking.) No surprise there.

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Film Technology Entrepreneur Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

This executive crew finally began to break up in 2004, with the departure of Baldauf, who had run Nokia's network equipment business. Now the only one left is Ollila, the CEO from 1992 to 2006 and nonexecutive chairman since (he's planning to retire in 2012 ).

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Team Crisis Globalization Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

That choice cuts to the heart of Alibaba, according to Porter Erisman, who served as a vice president at the company from 2000 to 2008, and whose documentary on his time there debuted in 2012. “Alibaba was started in Hupan Garden. Of course, this only works for skunkworks projects.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Since August 2012, Apple has been on a buyback binge, expending a total of $53 billion on stock repurchases through the third quarter of 2014, the last figures it has disclosed.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. When it came to landing the car-sized rover on Mars in 2012, there simply was no precedent – nothing nearly that big had ever landed there. Two more rovers followed in 2004.

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Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. In 2012 Procter & Gamble moved its headquarters for personal care from Cincinnati to Singapore, and GE posted a vice chairman in Hong Kong for the first time ever.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. Due to its fiscal prudence (and a rebounding economy), by 2012, the company was nearly the size it had been in 2007. 2012 revenue was 84% of 2007 revenue.) But nonetheless, the company was low on cash.

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Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

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Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

In 2012, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen wrote about their landmark work on management in these pages. The researchers looked at survey data from 361 midsize manufacturers in Germany between 2004 and 2009 and linked the companies to data on their employees.

Management 8

Management Analysis Quality Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. With renewed solidarity and determination, the beard-wearing Sox went on to win the division, the playoffs, and the big prize. Their game is baseball, my game is change.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Many more young people today are looking to make an impact — in 2004, 5% of HBS's first-year class applied for summer internships with Year Up — and that desire for purpose doesn't go away as someone advances in their career. Leverage your mission.

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Attrition Entrepreneur Insurance Career 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

A study by Judge and Piccolo (in ‘The Journal of Applied Psychology’, 2004, issue 89, pp755-768) tested the relationship between leadership styles and measures of leaders’ effectiveness and found that transformational leadership was associated with greater effectiveness.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Long-term Follow-up 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

million in capital in 2012, it grew from 6 to 20 employees. Between 2004 and 2006, for example, a Boston-based nonprofit called the Institute for Health Improvement led an effort called the “100,000 Lives Campaign” to raise awareness in U.S. After raising $5.1 hospitals of the importance of some simple practices (e.g.,

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Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

In addition, we believe that in order to deliver on the promise of improved health and reduced spending, VBC must be augmented with a structured approach to eliminate waste and be delivered in conjunction with a broad-based effort to address factors that are outside of the traditional boundaries of healthcare. One example illustrates this well.

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Health Care Transportation Cost System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. In 2012 Procter & Gamble moved its headquarters for personal care from Cincinnati to Singapore, and GE posted a vice chairman in Hong Kong for the first time ever.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The HBS case quotes Holman Jenkins of The Wall Street Journal writing in 2004 about Sony’s strategy: …somehow, some way consumers in the future will probably need a device to organize all the digital fun streaming around their lives. Your Biggest Competitor Isn’t Necessarily Your Biggest Competitor.

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Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2012 it was $1.9 After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Icahn won that playground tussle. He’s been winning a lot of them lately. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7 billion , putting him in second place.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

So far I haven''t been able to get Comcast''s PR people to tell me what the odds of that are, but I did find a 2012 article from Multichannel News that said cable boxes have "an effective life of seven years," and that there are lots of things in them that can be repurposed after that.

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