Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Lacking sufficient levels of connection is associated with poorer cognitive performance , impaired executive control and self-regulation , lower levels of self-rated physical health , substance abuse , depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.”

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P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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Press Release Discount PR Media 174

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

I reprise it today for three reasons. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable!

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Leadership Workshop Blog Video 195

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from serving on boards? increased by over $300,000.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 12

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. Here’s some data to “prove&# it though. 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

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. Perhaps you’ve read the game-shifting books The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , by C.K. This can be part of your strategy.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. A pioneer in the field, Rand’s personal brand got strapped to a rocket when he started his company, Moz, in 2004.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Run more experiments.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. The gap between strategy and the execution of that strategy is often referred to as “ strategic dissonance.” The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V. lakhs ($6,600).

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

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. That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

Leadership 13

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

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IAM Productivity Products Company 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

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Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. Externally, there was skepticism whether this would be true, but internally, Toyota executives believed that there was a growing awareness about environmental challenges. Forward-looking. Hard to follow.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble? mortgage borrowers got into this situation from about 2004 through early 2007.

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Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Nokia's market capitalization did peak not long after my article appeared, but that had more to do with the deflation of a ridiculous tech-stock bubble than anything wrong with the company's business. This executive crew finally began to break up in 2004, with the departure of Baldauf, who had run Nokia's network equipment business.

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Team Crisis Globalization Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

The former Apple executive was too Silicon Valley for the Plano, Texas, retailer. He approved marketing campaigns that told loyal Penney''s shoppers that "you deserve to look better," basically telling them that they looked less than glamorous wearing the brand they had trusted and been comfortable with for years. He was arrogant.

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Class Mass Marketing Retail Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. At that time, we had major drugs about to go off patent, which would lead to a rapid decline in revenue, and we also had lost drugs in late stages of development that we were counting on for future growth. Why did they do this?

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And building a strong employer brand first became a major focus of activity between 2004 and 2008, when in response to the growing competition for talent, leading companies like Unilever , Shell and P&G began to apply the same focus and consistency to their employer branding as they applied to their corporate and consumer branding.

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Brand CEO Reputation Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Beyond looking silly, the much bigger risk — the risk to the business — is that when we throw terms around imprecisely, we risk introducing confusion into the strategy we're trying to execute. The term "Social Media" is limited by its connection with marketing and communications. Andrew McAfee coined the term Enterprise 2.0

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This helped ALL's executives do four things: achieve alignment, adapt to local circumstances, foster coordination across units, and make better decisions. Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. That hasn’t happened. Methodology.

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Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move left many executives stunned. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit.

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Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives. On average, my executive students answer this question in the twos and threes. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were. My guess is that your second number is lower than your first.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail.

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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. Once the book had been written, I had to market it. Lucky thing, that.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.”

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. is now among the few Western developed economies with neither voluntary nor mandatory targets. and European executive recruiters. Growing Recognition that Market Forces Won’t Fix the Problem. Market forces won’t make it happen.”

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Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8