Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Don Maruska founded and was CEO of three Silicon Valley companies and venture investor in startups that became public companies. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. You just finished reading 4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions !

Bond 50

Bond Participative McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

“I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”. That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Companies have invested millions of dollars to develop profiles that describe the desired behavior for leaders of the future. Leaders who are not working for a company that describes desired leadership behavior can read books on the topic. The company had developed a well-thought-out profile of desired leadership behaviors.

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360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

.” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. When Stephens plotted people’s attitudes and moods against the numbers, he saw that the company’s stellar financial growth was creating emotional misery in the team. ” Raise others up.

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Chief Operating Officer How To COO Motivation 40

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. This is not fair to my client, to the company or to me. My clients and their managers (unless my client is the CEO) agree upon the desired behavior for change.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But what about the kinds of jobs where measuring someone’s “output” isn’t about counting the number of widgets they produced, but rather it’s about how they managed a team or influenced others or helped people collaborate better? Second, managers focus on opportunities, not score-keeping.

Management 8

Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Therefore, we think that companies can and should take the lead in training workers to fill the middle-skills gap. We have identified three models that companies can employ. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

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Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. Reed has also said that sitting on the board of another company is “ better than an M.B.A. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc.,

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. For example, starting a lawn service with a mower and a truck will demand far less investment and risk than borrowing a lot of money to buy an existing landscaping company. Family Questions.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I’m seeing a surprising new phenomenon when it comes to career arcs and transitions, with women happily and successfully working longer than their husbands. Not only did the female CEOs in the study report that they were the primary caregiver when their children were young, but that “their families took precedence over their careers.”

Travel 8

Travel Career CEO Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town.

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Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today. Sealed Air China has been successful not only because its senior managers understand the local market, but also because they are knowledgeable about the parent company's value proposition and technical strengths.

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Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

. “Often, other scientists’ careers seem to be a constant, streamlined series of triumphs. That’s true for companies as well as for individuals. Therefore, whenever we experience an individual failure, we feel alone and dejected.”

Hypercompetition 8

Hypercompetition Transportation Career Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. By the time a glass ceiling is in place, it is far too late to change the trajectory or culture of a company. Furthermore, as more women create companies, they will spin out other women founders, and demonstrate a different way of doing things. of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

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Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Khazanah recognized that Malaysia needed future national leaders with a wide variety of experiences that were far more varied than any of the individual companies in their portfolio could offer alone. Khazanah convinced their portfolio companies to trade their leaders. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

One example of a feminine standard that would counter balance the rigid long hour standard is work flexibility, which would enhance women’s chances of pursuing a career wholeheartedly, as well as invite more men to share equally in care responsibilities, a necessary condition in levelling the playing field for women and men.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Long-term Follow-up 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Year Up is empowering urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to move them from poverty to professional careers in one year. To do so, enterprises need to have a strong culture, excellent managers, and continued plans for growth. Focus on culture and growth. This isn't just added compensation.

Attrition 10

Attrition Entrepreneur Insurance Career 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Closing a major deal with a Fortune 2000 company is seldom straightforward. These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. He also had company intelligence. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). Sell stock in the company. Wait a while. In 2012 it was $1.9

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 2, 2020

This threshold has been raised from the previous limit of $455 per week of 40 hours, which was set in 2004. There will be no changes in overtime protection for police officers, paramedics, nurses and laborers, including those in non-management production line work. It is estimated that 1.3 Have a complaint process in place.

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Safe Harbor Proposal Long-term Comparison 84

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

Many companies change their performance appraisal forms on a regular basis with the promise that the “new and improved” form will lead to more effective feedback. What companies don’t want to face is the real problem with the appraisal process–it is almost never the form. Distractions.

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Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The senior leader advises the junior employee on his career, how to navigate the world of work, and what he needs to do to get ahead. Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. There was a time when taking a job at a startup was viewed as risky, even foolish, because you didn’t know how long the company was going to be around.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. If the evidence on biological differences is too thin to explain the large gender gaps in leadership roles and STEM careers, is the evidence on gender bias any stronger?

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Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In many cases it dramatically changed how a company thought about both diversity and innovation. What if the stories behind companies such as Microsoft or Nokia or Starbucks or the stories behind world-famous authors, index-destroying investors and breakthrough scientists had a lot more to do with randomness than we think?

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. In the famous words of Vince Lombardi: “ Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. They are: Vision.

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Team Management How To eBook 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The screw-up might be personal (Arnold Schwarzenegger's extramarital escapades), corporate (TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu's mishandling of his company's nuclear power plant crisis), or simply banal (inadvertently insulting a colleague's wardrobe). Eventually, every leader will make a mistake for which he or she must apologize.

How To 14

How To Committee Media Crisis 14

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Interestingly, the answer seems to be yes, as when political misalignment occurred between 2004 and 2019, cost overruns were around 8% higher than when the procurement officers were aligned politically with the president. “In They then gauged how procurement officers in particular were affected by any political misalignment that occurred.

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Politics Analysis Bureaucracy Influence 87