The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Experts forecasted in 2000 that 30 gigawatts of electricity would be generated worldwide through wind power by 2010.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Play It Again, Sam: The Science of Repeating Things Repeatedly by Starbucker on October 17, 2010 "Boss, isn't that the 15th time you told me to play it again?" Why am I so happy to hear this? Popularity: 4% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. Many companies can acquire consumers in China's poorer cities, which the government has targeted for development.

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Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Very helpful.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. over the last 18 months than the previous 30 years combined. .” The program delivered $1.6

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. and public opinion.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Nope, I’m A Writer by Starbucker on September 16, 2010 “ I’m a blogger ” I was at a conference, and we were having a catered lunch. Dailey September 16, 2010 at 7:51 am I will be 40 in February. Kevin September 16, 2010 at 8:29 am “I do it because I love it.&# I don’t feel it at all. Great article!

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media by Starbucker on January 24, 2010 It’s the new elephant in the room. Bret Simmons January 24, 2010 at 10:57 pm Excellent, Terry. Keep up the great work!

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The 7 Essential Truths About Social Media by Starbucker on October 21, 2010 Photo by webtreats It’s been 5 years now since I jumped into the Social Media pool. It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. davidburkus August 31, 2010 at 4:47 pm Great video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Secret To A Lifetime Of Productivity – And Five Ways To Find It by Starbucker on February 28, 2010 It’s not the “doing&#. Jennifer Fong March 1, 2010 at 9:38 am Great advice. My blog is [link].

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. The result has been explosive growth.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. Capital markets are fragmenting and while merchandise trade recovered strongly since 2009, the intensity of services trade has remained stagnant.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 18, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full So You Think You Can Lead: 6 Surefire Ways To Tell If You’re Making The Grade by Starbucker on July 18, 2010 I’m a big fan of “So You Think You Can Dance&# on FOX TV. Thanks again, and all the best!

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. Some 30% of U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory by Starbucker on August 8, 2010 “If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world? Thanks for sharing yours!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

In this age of consumer analytics and customer-centricity, most companies don't develop products and services before talking to customers, identifying latent needs and wants, and studying behaviors. If you think about it, several enterprises still routinely develop products and services without talking or listening to consumers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

percent in 1983 — college placement directors were saying it was the worst job market for college graduates since World War II. Unfortunately, X'ers' home purchases came at the top of the housing market after prices had been driven up by the large bulge of home-buying Boomers that preceded you. Unemployment hit 10.3

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Education Price Crisis Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. The second factor is economic. The third factor is political.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

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Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review by Starbucker on January 28, 2010 As the big stack on my desk attests, I love to read books that expand my knowledge and offer new insights on topics that interest me.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. It developed over 1,000 patents related to image capture that commanded billions of dollars in licensing revenues (for access to its “218” patent alone, it was paid $550 million by Samsung and $414 million by LG). By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. digital-camera sales (No.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. For example, Ruger’s new product development process is “doing things right.” But for many, guns are also a deadly business.

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By the end of 2010, they found that incentive bonuses did have a minor impact on growth but that as soon as they were discontinued, sales dropped again. Sales rose 300% in Georgia by the fall of 2010 and rose even more the following year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

As one example, a dozen years ago, Stewart Taggart predicted that by 2010 half of the value in the delivery of a shipping container from halfway around the world would be in the data associated with the container. His prediction came true in 2005. I tried Taggart's prediction out on my friends in the shipping business.

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