Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. The plan was to build my coaching business and the True Balance brand, one day at a time until I could give my two weeks notice. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. Although the idea of paying at the pump had a serious downside - all of the pumps in the Mobil system would need to be replaced - they came up with a plan. Copyright 2011. And, oh yeah - the price of gas. Well, the rest is history.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Everyone was happy – except Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), which handled the administrative side of Ford’s insurance plan. Premiums for the most popular employer-provided plans are projected to increase by another 10 percent next year.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

As a result, succession planning techniques developed in the private sector are often applicable to public sector institutions. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Mahesh Rao, a dynamic, creative, and highly-skilled executive consultant with more than 20 years of business experience, holds 14 US and international patents. Some have been industry-shaping. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Mahesh Rao, a dynamic, creative, and highly-skilled executive consultant with more than 20 years of business experience, holds 14 US and international patents. Some have been industry-shaping. All rights reserved.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. Some deals have failed because of national security concerns in the U.S.,

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Several multinational corporations, such as America's Coach, are planning to move their production out of the province (and China) over the next five years, to other nations such as Vietnam and India. While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Women's Leadership Exchange

SEPTEMBER 25, 2005

Deborah Steinmetz owns a successful architectural design and space planning company firm based in New Orleans. Add Your Comment « Return To Womens Leadership Exchange® Blog Joseph Prince Tim Keller Meetup Group - ©2011 Womens Leadership Exchange® All rights reserved. These women are truly courageous.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

News headlines trumpeted “Walt Disney Co Investors on Edge” and “Disney’s Succession Plan in Disarray.” Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) . Iger has been in charge of Disney since 2005. one of the authors of the study.

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CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

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. Much of this is driven by the needs of the financial sector, which itself has consolidated massively.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 What they really talked about, though, was mainly just what they're planning to do with the $34 billion in cash the company has here in the U.S. corporations. or whatever.

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GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Some large employers are doing this: They have used their purchasing power to engage their major providers and health plans to join them in a collaborative process aimed at eliminating waste. Think of providers and health plans as suppliers and manage them as such.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world.

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. So he taught his team planning and M&A skills. It has since doubled revenue to $26 million.

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 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. By 2005, eBay was already being locally outmatched — by none other than Jack Ma’s Taobao.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Bush, Chairman Amnon Rodan, and adviser Oran Arazi-Gamliel decided they had two choices for the firm’s sales strategy: They could juice the sales commission plan with temporary short-term bonuses, trying to motivate their consultants to work harder.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

.” – Jack Gibb Confidence & Determination: “An army destined to defeat fights in the hope of winning” - Sun Tzu, the Art of War Too Much Talk, Not Enough Action: “We have a ‘strategic’ plan. Terry Ricardo Bueno December 6, 2010 at 4:17 pm I really like number 6: “We have a ‘strategic’ plan. Every step may be fruitful.

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Leadership Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing Blog 330

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In 2011, Richard Allen Williams and I outlined five principles for eliminating racial disparities as part of health care reform: Provide insurance coverage and access to high-quality care for all Americans. Employers and health plans have an important stake in these efforts. Such interventions can have a major impact.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 11, 2010

If we are able to plan wiggle room into the action, we may be able to react appropriately when unforeseen consequences crop up. In other words, we have to doubt a little, even as we believe we have the strongest action planned. The more we become certain that we can know all the affects of a proposed action, the greater the danger.

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ROI Cost Blog Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. We learned that employees who find work highly meaningful are 69% less likely to plan on quitting their jobs within the next 6 months, and have job tenures that are 7.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. For example, in Beijing the price of an apartment has tripled since 2005 , averaging 27 times the average annual household income, five times the international average.

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Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

They just say “ do this &# or “ do that “, or “ here’s the plan &# or “ we better get this done on time “ and keep trying to get those boxes checked. And THAT can be a really scary thing. So scary, that many leaders don’t even try to to it. Sure, it can work, but it isn’t sustainable.

Leadership 284

Leadership Follow-up Blog Learning-by-Doing 284

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Seats are filling fast - dont delay [link] about 42 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tom_peters No, absolutely not. :-) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tom_peters @debworks Indeed he was.

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Objective Reputation Blog Execution 258

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell. So will it work?

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2010

One word of advice is that one must think about compromise and plan A and plan B when evaluating the risks of pursuit. Not the same point you are making about taking risks, however. From personal experience, I can say that taking risks is always worth it (within reason).

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog Magazine 281

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Analyze and Absorb Your Current Position – Just like we “studied&# up in January to know our business plan inside and out, we need to analyze and absorb the year-to-date operating results, so we can make meaningful comparisons (and more importantly, any mid-course corrections). Or did you overcompensate and not push hard enough?

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 11, 2010

It’s that “in-between&# time, where the current year’s business plans are fully in place, and the budget season for the next fiscal year is yet to begin. In the business world, that feeling can creep into the office very easily.

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Incentives Blog Seminar Short-term 232

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Study Up – Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? THEN , dive in.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2005, my colleague at Gonzaga University, Shann Ferch and I launched the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, which is now in its 10th year. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. In 2011, Shann Ferch and I produced “The Spirit of Servant-Leadership,” which included a foreword by Peter Block.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. This has served as a blueprint — the strategy — for how we think about and plan for Social Media at the Bank. A plan to use the tool. One of the first things I did when coming on board was develop a Social Media Roadmap. Community, and Measurement.

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Media Tactics Strategy Open-book 289

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To infuse that spirit into all those actions we take, and the conversations we have, and the futures we plan. Once we can do that, we can take the most important step any human can take – setting our intent to BE happy. Yep, it can be pretty darn effective. So why did it sit on my bed stand for so long, untaken?

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Pharmaceuticals Ethics Self-aware Blog 243

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

When practical, leaders then need to support the solutions offered, provide reassurance, resist stepping in when solutions are not working out as planned, and periodically ask these individuals what they are learning by implementing their own solutions. Storage Technology Corporation (“StorageTek”) and U S WEST Inc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Terry Starbucker

MAY 3, 2010

A person comes in with a dream, a concept, a half-finished business plan, or an existing business looking for a breakthrough, and comes out with a new vision, renewed initiative, and a strong bias for action. In the past we’ve likened this to a “Think Tank”, but it’s really much more than that – it’s a “Do Tank”.

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Power Open-book Learning-by-Doing Blog 222