You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Asking for Help Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful → August 30, 2010 · 12:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership ~ What’s Love Got To Do With It? It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. But that has to change in the face of this crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. But what happens when China goes West?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The burgeoning Ebola crisis hit home for Americans the other week with the death of a Liberian man in Dallas. These developments unraveled the projected confidence of leading physicians and officials of the Center for Disease Control that the disease was a low-risk threat to our country with its advanced medical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Are there peculiar features of African entrepreneurship we may consider relevant to big global debates on development and sustainability? Managers running these stunted businesses were likely to have fewer prospects than if owners were focusing on fewer, scalable businesses and aligning their incentives with ambitious managers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The HITECH Act, which was part of the federal stimulus program enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008, tasked the Obama administration and its Department of Health and Human Services with creating a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic-health-information system. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.”

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments I just finished reading Dan Pink’s book “Drive” and had a bit of an epiphany about my Gen X paradigms about motivation and “pay for performance” and my own personal motivation. what drives you? But most of our organizational systems, especially rewards, haven’t kept up.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. I think not, and I’ll explain why. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But when it comes to achieving the goal of doubling exports in five years [a goal Obama outlined in his 2010 State of the Union speech ], we already did the easy part: because our exports were so depressed due to the global financial crisis, we saw growth in the first couple of years. That's well chosen as an objective. trade policy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. Unfortunately, because the candidates have associated Hispanics more with immigration reform than any other issue, Obama and Romney have helped add fuel to an identity crisis that many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. Two developments bear noting. But digital technology and business incentives exerted more influence over the media coverage than editorial decisions and missing voices did. Thinking that way is tempting, but it misses the mark.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. Unfortunately, because the candidates have associated Hispanics more with immigration reform than any other issue, Obama and Romney have helped add fuel to an identity crisis that many U.S.

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