Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Here is the research he cited : A 2004 Yale study found that a highly likeable sales rep will earn 40% more than an equally educated or experienced counterpart. A: No, of course not. It comes from Tim Sanders and his great blog – in a post a few weeks back. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Leadership Blog Workshop Covey 205

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

The inherent payoff, of course, was in the cup. Ironically, this slogan was not created by an ad agency but by an Allstate sales manager in 1950. We bring good things to life lasted from 1981 until 2004 with a changing of GE’s executive guard. Now, as far as ‘walking the talk,’ Allstate has plenty of work to do.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. It was innovative and seemingly crazy. Many thought it could never work.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

The writer is a United States Marine Corps officer who wrote these words after reflecting on his experience of leading Marines during three very difficult combat deployments in Iraq, including an exceptionally arduous and grueling tour in Ramadi in 2004. Yes… of course! To be a truly effective leader, of course you need to do both.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. To find an innovative way forward, we looked beyond our own industry because traditional approaches in health care management had not evolved much over the previous decades.

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Health Care Quality Report Environment 12

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The number of workers allowed via the scheme was capped in 2004, and the researchers wanted to focus on what they perceived to be an overlooked aspect of the immigration debate. It creates a spectrum whereby you examine migration through its impact on innovation or local jobs. The effect on innovation. Work to be done.

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Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 55

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Government policy will, of course, be an important factor in releasing this latent demand. Economic growth of just under 5% a year would see consumer spending rise by 60% over the course of the next decade, even if consumption’s share of GDP doesn’t budge. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Take consumer credit.

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Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. This simple strategy proved wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Change management Leadership Managing people' And serial success can follow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. They come second to innovations in computer code. Of course it also means a lot of lines of software. The most innovative applications are probably still to come.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Most managers know that praising employees when they perform well is important, but many still withhold praise. Put simply, a willingness to accept sacrifices in the moment–to work, practice, or otherwise persevere in the face of difficulties–is what drives productivity, innovation, and, thereby, prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Of course, Facebook’s organization kept growing, so we kept watching it for lessons that might apply to other situations. Each newcomer is assigned a mentor—usually an engineer who isn’t a manager—to help him or her navigate Bootcamp.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences. I disagree.

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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. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

As part of our work researching high-performing primary care systems , we discovered a system-wide approach launched by Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in 2004 that unburdens primary care physicians. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004. At Best Places to Work: Trust, Pride & Camaraderie Overshadow Pay USA Today, October 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. 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. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. Let’s consider an example.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% Investment, in turn, is critical for productivity growth, as it equips workers with more – and with more recent and innovative – equipment, software, and structures. In fact, about half of the slowdown in productivity growth — from an average of 2.4%

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. I knew better, of course. And through them you got to people like me."

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). But how has HBR covered failure in the past?

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives. All this examination allows you to be innovative.

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Succession COO Career Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Earlier candidates, of course, had excelled at communicating with voters in a conversational manner.

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Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

LinkedIn, of course, made headlines for its $26 billion sale to Microsoft. The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“This has considerable implications for organizations intending to shift course as part of organizational change processes.” It does, of course, also ensure that in any administration there are likely to be a decent number of civil servants who object to the policy objectives of that administration. Political preferences.

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