Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Lafley became CEO.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Leader’s Power of Positivity – Turning Gray into Great by Starbucker on November 14, 2010 Yesterday my wife and I arrived in Portland Oregon for the first time as residents. And THAT is the incredible power of positivity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Companies were much more likely to make important announcements (both positive and negative) in the days surrounding a CEO succession than in the previous few months.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

It stands to reason that if you want your employees to come up with high-powered ideas, you need to offer high-powered rewards. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Reliance Group, India's largest private company, was split into two in 2005 following a power struggle between the Ambani brothers after their late father, Dhirubhai Ambani, died without leaving a will. At GE, succession planning and clear selection processes are institutionalized throughout the company. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37 The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. In five years, the company held over half of the U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

by Starbucker on November 29, 2009 “It’s the most powerful thing there is&# – John Wooden John Wooden is a basketball coaching legend – in his 27 years at UCLA, his teams had a winning percentage of 81%, and they won a unfathomable 10 NCAA titles. Just ask John Wooden. What’s love got to do with leadership?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The video below, for example, shows a side-by-side time-lapse comparison of a GE technician wiring a wind turbine’s control box using the company’s current process, and then doing the same task while guided by line-of-sight instructions overlaid on the job by an AR headset. but also in most of the developed world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

As we stress in The $10 Trillion Dollar Prize , urbanization is one of the most powerful transformative economic forces in China today. and European companies entering China have focused on the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Typically, and perhaps not surprisingly, U.S. But we tell them that this is a mistake.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s about inspiring people to believe in the company vision and values, and to figure out what’s really in it FOR THEM – job fulfillment and satisfaction. Those are the people that are not only destined for greatness but have the power to help others move mountains! Sure, it can work, but it isn’t sustainable.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It’s nearly impossible for someone to really move the dial when mistrust of leadership is so high, because it is such a powerful destructive force in the workplace. Credibility is never nameless. Next, a leader must get out of the ivory tower and into the places where the business gets done – that kind of visibility is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. Ben : I love it.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

You were a pretty darn good leader and checked all your boxes, but you were a poor diplomat, and thus, the company as a whole did not succeed. So how can we maximize peer-to-peer and department-to-department relations, and thus maximize our company’s chances for success?

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Harness the power of the collective consciousness ! The Right Team on the Field – I think that many companies put off adjusting their teams towards the end of 2009. It’s also a good time to think about 2010 public relations opportunities for you or your company. They normally possess both formal and informal power.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. And because misery loves company, they tend to hang out with other Criticizers. Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Collins is the author of my all-time favorite business book, “ Good to Great &# ( affiliate link, profits to National Park Foundation) , where through a ton of research he identified the most critical traits of companies that were able to sustain above-average growth rates for long periods of time. EVERY instance.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

An edgy marketing campaign might be what’s needed to jump start the brand but it might be too big of a leap for a conservative company. As the Tea Party’s impact on the mid-term elections and national dialogue can attest, we shouldn’t dismiss people or groups simply because they’re not part of the established power structure.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 25, 2010

All the measurements and the metrics that we hold each other accountable to are very powerful forces, and quite necessary ones. A lot of companies just focus on new business rather than nurturing the existing clients. Indeed, it is often the “lowliest&# of touchpoints that defines our experience with most companies these days.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. Ben : I love it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability. She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Too many business leaders fail to understand the profound power that a culture of design can instill in an organization.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 27, 2010

As a dreamer, I can attest to the power of giving your visions some physical manifestation. I too never realized the power of writing out dreams until I started it. As a doer, I believe that you need a plan, and writing down where you want to be is a damn good place to start. Glad you took that first, little step!

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Then, it was for a series of missed deadlines. Now, he was there because of a careless error that cost the company a customer. First it was for some poorly completed work. Jerry had hired George several years ago and taken him under his wing, and had spent a lot of time with him, trying to groom him into a high performer.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

It’s that power of the imagination, and while it can create a magical (and admittedly sometimes scary) candy factory, it can also create a similarly wondrous “idea factory&# that can drive leadership success, and long-term profitability. Why Willy, and why now? That’s right, everybody.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

A great demonstration of ‘remarkable service’ – now leveraged by the power of the Internet – thanks to your keen eye and willingness to share. How powerful is THAT?! Its probably unrealistic that an owner/founder of a company will find an employee, much less several, that is as committed as he.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I plan to write about the power of positive thought on my blog in the coming weeks. There are concrete examples of companies that are knocking it out of the park who’s leaders live and breathe these guidelines. Great post and great rules to live by. Rule number 11 might be Be Positive, something that your whole site is about.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The company that I’ve worked for over the last 16 years is being sold, and so, next weekend, my wife and I will be moving from Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. They have the power to affect what you are doing NOW, and the paths you intend to take tomorrow. by Starbucker on November 7, 2010 It is a time of change for me.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. Finally, the top leaders need to apply the most powerful multipliers of them all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped.

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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. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

During this period, the company that was killing GM — Toyota — was earning a staggeringly high percentage (estimated as high as 75%) of its U.S. And in the U.S. market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. share throughout the 1990s and 2000s. market: small and mid-car.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Yet the struggles at the company are not new. billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The other has guided numerous companies through digital transformations, most recently as SVP of Communities and Networks at Sears Holdings. By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. What does this mean for leaders?

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