Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Some excerpts from the interview: I have maintained a portfolio that I call the sleep well portfolio for 10 years (started April 2005). Read more interviews with me on management topics and on travel and blogging topics. Also listen to podcasts with me on management topics.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. It helps the stakeholders act as “fellow travelers” who are trying to improve, not “judges” who are pointing their fingers at my client. 3) Collect feedback.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Mahesh Rao’s extensive travel and keen cultural awareness, along with his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, contribute to his ability to see processes clearly, from the big picture to the details. Some have been industry-shaping.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Mahesh Rao’s extensive travel and keen cultural awareness, along with his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, contribute to his ability to see processes clearly, from the big picture to the details. Some have been industry-shaping.

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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?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. The CNO is the head of the U.S.

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CO2

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Add work time lost due to travel; cultural norms requiring that people travel together; the expense of transportation; and a general lack of awareness about the value of correcting eyesight problems, and the French eyeglass company Essilor was faced with a perfect storm of what we call external constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate.

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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. In its place, he provided custom project management software.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all. This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. Board service has always been very demanding.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. What makes it work for our company?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

You describe your vision vividly and compellingly so that your fellow travelers long to see it become reality. 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. Show them that the rewards justify the risk.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 18, 2010

But truth be told, all there is a very real difference between managers and leaders, very few leaders have the luxury of a management-free existence, and very few managers will succeed without leadership skills. However, you raise a valid point that managers could also benefit from it. Thanks again, and all the best!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

At Duke University, Reggie Love played football and basketball, and after his 2005 graduation he tried out for two NFL teams, without success. CEOs typically don’t have a “body man,” but Amazon and other companies do run programs in which high-potential managers spend a year as an assistant to the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn’t evenly distributed. For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. In Mexico, 53% of the value of consumer payments are cashless, according to studies done by MasterCard Advisors.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 11, 2010

Make sure the entry-level managers are getting attention as well – these efforts will pay off when things get cranked up again in the fall. Travel out to your remote sites and hold team meetings. Increasing your presence sends a strong signal that even though it’s summer, it’s still time to get things done.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” Do you want to spend your weekends traveling? “My manager was going over to lead the U.S. ” “What’s the opportunity?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Engineers, managers, and entrepreneurs need to understand what intellectual property is, why it’s valuable, and how it can be deployed in the global economy to the greatest advantage. A famous example is a Chinese consortium’s state-sponsored development of the AVS audio-video encoding standard in the years up to 2005.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 23, 2010

lol We get to resolve a bunch of stuff over e-mail through some wonderful managers we have on staff, and that really does help things move along…and get everyone on the same page eventually. Travel becomes tough because of the expense and communication eventually breaks down.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For instance, you might list spending time with your kids or doing work that’s challenging, but “what you most enjoy is having new experiences with your children, like travel. By 2005, it was sold to California-based Basic America Foods (BAF). Career planning Managing yourself Work life balance'

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. Fortunately, I received the grant and was able to travel to the US to the study Deming’s papers at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? Traveling to new places ?. Sincerely, Lisa. Turn the key and go for a ride. ?.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.

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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. based CIOs, 30% said communication was their greatest remote management challenge, followed by productivity (22%) and technology (22%). In the U.S.,

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? Traveling to new places ?. Sincerely, Lisa. Turn the key and go for a ride. ?.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Then, it engineered the system so it would be quieter than rival products, managing to reduce noise levels by as much as 35%. Few employees spoke English; even fewer had traveled around Europe, Italy, or even outside the valley. For instance, Elica offers sponsorships to employees' children so they can travel and study abroad.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” And it traveled in your pocket. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. Steve Jobs was the Baby Boomer version of Armstrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As one former digital agency executive told me after watching Microsoft’s event, “If I were managing a brand, I’d head right to my digital agency and say, ‘What is our plan for holograms?’” You might as well be on a feature phone in 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The quickest way to spring the short-term trap is to set overly ambitious targets — the kind that make the CEO a hero with investors in the short term, but threaten the long-term plan by, for instance, skimping on scheduled maintenance, cutting R&D investment, and shrinking travel and training budgets.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. was developed at a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

When YouTube launched in 2005 as an independent company, not yet owned by Google, it was one of dozens of video sites competing vigorously both for video content and for viewers. One might imagine a tough penalty for posting infringements, perhaps sufficiently severe to keep YouTube and fellow travelers on the straight and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation. From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Related Video.

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