Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In April 2010, Mars, one of the world’s largest privately owned businesses, embarked on a breakthrough initiative. While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It is not surprising that picking one strategic direction and then decisively pursuing that direction are hallmarks of good leadership, if not boilerplate management skills. In a 2010 study , Psychologist Georges Potworowski at the University of Michigan found that certain personality traits (e.g., Decision making Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. The leadership of the change effort can’t end with the top team, the top 100 managers, or the top 1,000 managers. Digitization vs. Humanization. Entire value chains are being digitized. Hold everyone accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > As of 2010, Shuttleworth had recognized that BTFG needed to transform its wealth management business. Essentially the team needed to rebuild the entire product and technology architecture for BTFG’s wealth products and then migrate existing customers to the new technology platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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