Engaging Leader

AUGUST 14, 2012

Today’s workforce is more diverse, with more women and more ethnicities represented. When I launched Aspendale Communications in 2004, I recognized (sort of) that even though I wanted to be self-employed (with no employees), I needed a team. A great leader was charismatic, visionary, and excellent at making decisions.

Workshop 240

Workshop Long-term Agility Influence 240

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2013

Our generation faces a society that has adopted English as a global language, but we cannot forget that learning other languages initiates deeper connections and more trustful relationships between diverse communities. Language is more than a pragmatic communication system. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Education 169

Education Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 169

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. Andrew Liveris likes to defy expectations.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Travel CEO Execution 15

Building Personal Strength

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

I wanted to put Miami Beach in my rear view mirror, but Kathleen loved the diversity and its charms. Until the hurricanes chased us off in 2004. While the daughter went excitedly from room to room, the mother stuffed an expensive knife from a kitchen drawer into her purse. Easy pickings. We moved to Vero Beach, a virtual paradise.

Construction 78

Construction Sports Diversity Marketing 78

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. It is made even more so with the huge diversity in the modern workforce.

Skills 80

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 80

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2012

In fact, an academic study using data from 1998 to 2004 found that executives, who play golf, typically earn more than those who don’t, especially if they play well. Well, according to some, it will. In 2011, an article entitled, “ Why Golfers Get Ahead ” appeared in The Economist.

Execution 64

Execution Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Workshop 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K.,

Brand 64

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2012

In fact, an academic study using data from 1998 to 2004 found that executives, who play golf, typically earn more than those who don’t, especially if they play well. Well, according to some, it will. In 2011, an article entitled, “ Why Golfers Get Ahead ” appeared in The Economist.

Execution 40

Execution Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Workshop 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (released in 2019) and Natasha Bedingfield’s 2004 single “Unwritten” topped the list, accumulating a staggering 4 billion plays on the platform. Employee Preferences and Diversity When curating playlists, take into account the diverse preferences of your employees.

Productivity 98

Productivity Products IAS Succession 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

Diversity 8

Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 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." But when it comes to white men, the authors found that they got a bump in performance scores when they were perceived as valuing diversity.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement. There are now five generations working alongside each other – an unprecedented opportunity to learn from such a diverse range of experiences. So, go forth and build something with it.” Yet, wisdom is not in short supply here.

Wiseman 10

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

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. This decision — to bet the company on a new and distinct business — was the first such move by Ma, but it would become the cornerstone of Alibaba’s strategy.

Porter 8

Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2004, the circumstances were different. A February 7, 2008, article in Fortune magazine reported that all the drugs highlighted at a December 2004 analyst meeting had come to market. In 2004, Merck's board, like most boards, was comprised of members with impressive resumes and who came from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Some have argued that most financial incentives are too small to make a difference, but even in the UK’s national health system, where up to 30% of clinicians’ income is paid through a P4P system, patients’ health have not markedly improved since 2004, when the system was introduced.

Incentives 8

Incentives Guidelines Quality Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Despite the continuing rarity of women at the very tops of large corporations (which will inexorably shift as the cohort of overwhelmingly male CEOs retires during the next decade) and in finance, a 2004 study by the women's group Catalyst, The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity , concluded that companies with the highest (..)

Bottom-up 13

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. Enlist a business ally.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

At age 48, in 2004, I decided to leave my great job as a mutual fund manager to co-found an asset management firm. They acknowledged that non-work experiences with their spouses were important and necessary diversions, good for their marriages, and often intellectually broadening. This subject has been on my mind for years.

Travel 8

Travel Career CEO Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. You get the point.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Many people get to the top without much diverse experience. They are able to relate to diverse audiences. Lombardo and Eichinger (2004) have shown that it is associated with being a high potential learner; these learners perform much better after promotion than do the average and low learning-agile. Here the record is mixed.

Agility 120

Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Iceland, Norway) as well as in countries still working toward achieving their gender diversity quotas (e.g., In the U.S.,

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). Similarly, countries as diverse as South Korea, India, and Russia now allow only a one-share, one-vote structure.

Planning 11

Planning IPO Proposal Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? He was dead serious.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

My former colleague Janet Hyde, a developmental psychologist and an authority on gender differences, reviewed 46 meta-analyses that had been conducted on psychological gender differences from 1984 to 2004. (A

Long-term 13

Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. Diversity , which explores factors such as the level of diversity in the economy, labor mobility and immigration flows.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

From his fabled keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention to his high-pressure speech on race in 2008, Obama proved able to talk about sensitive issues in a way that promised to bring people together. There's more to a successful presidential campaign than building a great communication operation.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15