Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Consider how the following quotes resonate with your own conception of leadership as it relates to the future. The organization’s function is to put knowledge to work — on tools, products, and processes; on the design of work; on knowledge itself. What ideas do they give you for changing the future direction of your organization?

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2019

But the job profile of HR has evolved now, and hiring the right talent, managing the same with the latest technology available, and providing the right environment for the talent to flourish has become the primary task. HR professionals need to upskill to handle the advancements in technology. Flextime Jobs. Retention and engagement.

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Trends Flextime Human Resources Diversity 105

Tim Milburn

MARCH 26, 2011

I’ve been blogging since January 12, 2005. I write a lot about leadership, a bit about technology, and a little on culture and productivity. I write a lot about leadership within the context of student leadership because it’s what I do on a daily basis. What does it look like?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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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. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. They use their products on a daily basis.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven! And if a competitor is foolhardy enough to try to work around an MFN, then the dominant insurer can simply force its rival out of the market.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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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. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

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. There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. My takeaways?

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 11, 2010

Let’s assume we are considering an investment in a new automated technology that could replace the need for certain personnel. Next there is the opportunity cost- that is, the cost of something we’ll be giving up to get this new technology. Or are we concerned that our initial assessment is a mirage, and we must dig in?

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ROI Cost Blog Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

More often than not, when organizations shuffle the deck in anticipation of a new strategy or product cycle, the experience is dislocating, dispiriting, and dehumanizing. Cutting the Cord: Vodafone UK's Revolutionary Approach to Mobility, Flexibility & Productivity. Story by Dan Bean, Robert Musson, and Chermaine Li.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. And that’s what great leadership is all about. Popularity: 7% [ ?

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. No action can be brought as long as the product functioned “as designed and intended” and there is no evident negligence. I see at least three steps to take.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Many companies, including my own, have learned this the hard way as core products and services have matured beyond their sell-by date.) 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.

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Succession Long-term Maturity Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Departing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recently urged his China leadership not to pursue an urbanization policy that neglects the needs and wants of China's significant rural population. In 2005, average income was $407. But rural China is now about forestry, fishing, construction, and the production of bricks and cement.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. of employment in 2005 to 9.6% Even products like groceries, once thought to face limited threat from e-commerce, are fair game, as Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods demonstrates.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. It took some time for all of us to get used to it, but our meetings are much more productive.". You know their names: Hewlett-Packard. RadioShack.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

So I see it as a mission when I talk to clients to find their CTM, what is your special, spicy, delicious sauce that you can add to your commodity chicken product or service? We all have something about us that is new, different, special and valuable, we just have to bring it out. We had a meal together in Melbourne too, which was great.

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Succession Media Mentor Blog 236

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

And the Wall Street Journal recently reported that sales of greeting cards have fallen 9% since 2005 amid the rise of social media and email. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model.

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 60

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

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. 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.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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