Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 398

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 27, 2009

For the most part, while you might have had to confer with others, you largely worked independently and minded your own business. Leading and managing operate in partnership with each other. This is no mean feat simply because those who report to you will have varying degrees of skill and competence. They are not the same.

Leadership 40

Leadership Blog McCarthy Brand 40

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 306

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Marshall created a culture that stands in stark contrast to the culture created by General McChrystal as reported in a Rolling Stone magazine article entitled “ The Runaway General.&# A little over a year later, FDR made Marshall the army chief of staff reporting directly to him. why is everyone smiling?

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Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. By the end of 2009, MBH’s revenue had nosedived 83% and Heath and McNulty had to lay off three-quarters of their staff. The financial reports his CEO showed him looked rosy: Revenue had doubled to $200 million and profits were $20 million. Not growth, or even profits.

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Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. But when we arrived at Langley in early 2009, there were no solid leads on Bin Laden’s whereabouts.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In a survey conducted last month, 75% of veterans reported that VA effectively delivers care and services, up from 65% just a year ago. Sixty-eight percent of veterans now report feeling valued in their interactions with VA and 74% report getting the services they need, which is up from 47% and 65% a year ago, respectively.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. Approximately half of those surveyed reported that they began working as locum tenens during the middle of their careers, while 36% started taking locum tenens positions after retiring from permanent practice. Our study was recently published in JAMA.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11