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JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.    I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high? I’ve done that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. The measures of economic success we've been using for the past three-plus decades, and the goals we've been striving toward, seem to have led us to a dead-end, he argues. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care. A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. Tyranny of intermediate goals. Insight center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Yes, some governments do give financial and other support to young companies, with the goal of helping them grow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. The primary goal of current U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. If job creation is the primary policy goal, then all forms of entrepreneurship need to be explored. All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Then, to move forward, you inspire people to assume new goals and responsibilities. In a 2005 speech to Apple developers, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh would no longer be using the PowerPC processor and would shift to the Intel platform. Many CEOs deliver vision speeches at the beginning of each year that serve this purpose.

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Succession Long-term Maturity Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Are they leaving goals — and wins — on the table? There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' But the players on the U.S. and the U.K. teams, reports the New York Times , don’t like to fake fouls.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're a manager of a large business, you know the challenges involved in retaining talented people, guiding their progress toward important objectives, and having them feel a deep sense of engagement with the organization. In some organizations, it might be enough of a goal simply to allow new staff to connect with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

But it can become more rewarding — if you’re willing to hold yourself accountable and work for the new goals you’ve set yourself.” Your goal, says Freedman, is to “figure out what your priorities are at this juncture in your life.”. As you’re navigating this transition, “you have to think about goals,” says Dillon.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. Seeing an opportunity to blend its business and public benefit goals, Cisco established a Networking Academy to address this key business challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) But she realizes that it was the practical need to pioneer new materials technology under strict cost constraints in tandem with improving lives that really accelerated the innovation process. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

It’s not all in the employee handbook and instruction manuals – everybody, and especially customer facing teammates, must be able to make those daily practical judgments that make a huge difference between greatness and mediocrity These qualities are great, but they need to be amplified by a supervisor or manager. Great work.

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Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

percent since 2005. To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Similar to Cosmo , Glamour , and GQ.)

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. As companies continue grappling with the adoption and implementation of digital technologies, they may easily lose sight of flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. The vast distance created problems.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Technology makes the sharing of information much easier today than it was during the Roman Empire.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Technological advances and employers looking to lower costs have resulted in more people working outside an office than ever before. by 80% between 2005 and 2012. Managing my time and not overworking was going to be the biggest challenge,” she says. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? How technology is changing the way we work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? This will be the first year since 2005 in which Pixar has not had a feature film to release.

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Creativity Film Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

People started asking in 2005, "Oh, President, are you going to leave when your term is up?" We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. Working together for a common goal that is theirs. No matter what else you say about it. This, for me, is the focus.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. million jobs. billion in 2014.

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