Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. We’re looking for products that will have a positive and powerful impact on the environment and on the economy.” We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The alternative looks enticing. Unreasonably so.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Nothing gets done in organizations without followers, as they are people closest to the customers and issues, creating the products, taking orders, and collecting payments. Research has consistently shown that more engaged employees are harder working, more productive, and more likely to stay with organizations than those who are disengaged.

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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. Many of these suppliers are small- and medium-sized companies that tend to be less productive than the larger firms, but are nonetheless critical for employment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. To date, business leaders have lacked two key pieces of information they need in order to act on the finding that meaning drives productivity. Employers must respond or lose talent and productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. BP had experienced a similar major accident only a few years earlier – the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which claimed 15 lives and injured 170 people. Employees leave the company.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

We had already made a lot of progress in reducing energy consumption and water usage, improving forestry policies, and limiting air and water emissions, but my predecessor thought we should set some stretch goals for 2000. I shared our goals for 2005 with him. This was the first time we really put something down on paper.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Frequently, when I speak at a company with a strong “yes” culture, I ask the employees to close their eyes and raise their hands if they are currently working on a project that they don’t believe will be successful — something they don’t believe will accomplish its goals. Pay attention to warning signs.

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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. But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. Take Cisco.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Strategic leaders like Brian, who don’t hold positions of authority, operated in ways that were tailored to a less formal context.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Instructors wear the clothing at in-store events like self-defense and goal-setting workshops, simultaneously building product awareness and forging ties with local communities. Chobani provides an example of how a product that delivers a noticeably different experience can overtake the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Each goal is tied to Unilever’s core business activity. Improving hygiene habits halves the number of people who die from disease and increases sales of its soap products; reducing carbon emissions and water usage cuts costs and limits the company’s exposure to water-scarcity. These are not philanthropic ambitions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

But perhaps more importantly, many government entities are affecting markets, in a very good way, as customers — they''re buying cleaner economy products in large quantities. The General Services Administration (GSA), with $500 billion of purchasing of its own, will continue prioritizing greener products in many areas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Bush took over American Express’s far-flung service operations in 2005. Leaders kept a tight rein on costs, with goals for reducing average call time, improving customer satisfaction levels, and driving more service volume to the Web.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. anti-bribery, money laundering, product safety, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.

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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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Every chance I got, I framed our tangible goals and objectives with them, making sure that they were the foundation of every forward step we took. That’s the drawback in pushing “ productivity &# too hard. We had to fully explain our products and services. We HAD to be there on time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

” But our goal isn’t simply to minimize the influence of luck; it’s to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc. .” If you want to minimize the chance of bad luck, he says, be a dentist.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Goals are set for these metrics, and rewards are given for hitting and/or exceeding them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises. Successful Social Entrepreneurship Combines Mind and Heart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

Since people began telecommuting decades ago, companies have been excited about the prospects to increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain access to a much larger talent pool. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Operating outside the established processes will undermine the team’s cohesion. About 94% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

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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. All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. More products but fewer parts. Hardly a desirable position.

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Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. 2 (2005): 447–504. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

With the attack on Pearl Harbor, civilian radio production was halted for World War II. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. and some 500,000 homes had receivers.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” The blueprint included the company’s purpose, vision, values, and strategic goals, and fits on a single page.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

percent since 2005. Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. Bad tools hurt productivity. In the U.S., million people work from home. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The two major players didn’t share priorities: CMS prioritized the October 1 st deadline above operability. Medicare officials, the New York Times reports, “began to suspect that staff members at CGI were intentionally trying to hide flaws in the system to cover up for their inability to meet production deadlines.” percent).

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Teamwork is still defined as the coordinated activities of a cohesive group who contribute diverse skills and resources to accomplish a compelling common goal , but throughout corporate world, the nature of teams has experienced a change. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Teamwork is still defined as the coordinated activities of a cohesive group who contribute diverse skills and resources to accomplish a compelling common goal , but throughout corporate world, the nature of teams has experienced a change. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Management should then quantify and budget the expected return on the practice’s operational loss. Strengthen operations.

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