Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. Yes… of course! A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently. Of course, this only works for skunkworks projects. Though Ma’s apartment no longer serves as a rite of passage for Alibaba’s innovators, the culture it created lives on.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. Internal tribalism was hurting the company.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Tim Cook is taking exactly the right approach, staying the course, despite distracting expectations swirling around him. No iPad mini at all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

And I witnessed its truth firsthand as the CEO of Merck in 2004, when our earnings were going to fall short of analysts' expectations. The conventional course of action would have been to cut investments in research and restructure. Research by Michael Mauboussin , the chief investment strategist at Legg Mason, supports this view.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA. Adapting to local circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. 2 (2004): 349–399.

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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. Of course, consistency and creativity aren’t mutually exclusive. This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control. Let’s consider an example.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 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 16

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. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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. Martin was much more of a direct, operational, and continuous mentor," she said.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama developed and led a campaign for the presidency that not only achieved its main goal — sending Obama to the White House — but also set a new standard for innovation and execution. 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

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class. “This has considerable implications for organizations intending to shift course as part of organizational change processes.” Political preferences. In other words, did their performance suffer?

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