Six Disciplines

MAY 18, 2011

BTS USA, the global leader in strategic alignment and execution, and The Conference Board announced the results of a strategy and leadership development survey completed at their Leadership Development Conference held in May 2011.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Overcoming the Final Hurdle – The Pre-award Survey Audit Post by Veronica Eyenga, contributing Women On Business writer Before. Ten Tips to Earn Stimulus Money Contracts Federal dollars from the stimulus package are slowly making their. Networking to Land Contracts Work is love made visible. – Kahlil Gibran As I.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.),

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!    You will find their research in a variety of formats like case studies, surveys, white papers, newsletter articles, and editorial-like letters from Buck team members on select issues.  License. .

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Increased awareness of possible warning signs of organizational cancer, among leaders, managers and outside consulting firms that specialize in this area, as well as business relations and institutions in higher education, can have a great impact on the disease. How assured? We already know that 1 in 3 U.S.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Conference Board released research in January that concluded employee satisfaction and engagement in America were at the lowest point since it began surveying more than 20 years ago. Recently, SAS was named number 1 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2010. The data suggest otherwise.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When speaking with employees who have never been asked for their opinion before at work (33% of bosses rarely or never ask for their subordinate advise based on a national survey we conducted) they say they will never work for another company in which they did not get to participate in the strategic planning process.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 shows that out of the 100 CEOs represented in the survey, 92 were Caucasian males. We are very concerned about the fact that women and minorities continue to be under-represented at the highest levels of management,” said Barbara J.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

I can hear these old world managers (the anti-leaders) now: “that’s not the reality of how the business world works. ” Unfortunately, for old school managers — and thankfully for the rest of us — Good Company builds many of its arguments around solid research. Good guys finish last.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. Over the past few years, we've all become much more aware of the forces that will powerfully shape global society over the next decade. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

If you're a first or second line manager, these demands from upper management may sound familiar. A 2010 McKinsey global survey of 2,512 executives found that, when the frontline experiences a sense of ownership of the necessary changes and are engaged in driving the change effort, the success rate rises to astonishing 79 percent.

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Management Resistance McKinsey Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

shares of the global operations of U.S.-based Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. companies, locating the lion's share of their global business activities in America (about 65% of their sales, 68% of their employment, 70% of their capital investment, and 84% of their R&D spending in 2009).

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Very helpful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Dig a few layers deeper into firms'' management teams and the situation doesn''t look much better. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% sits right at the global average with 14% non-native CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We witnessed Facebook overtake Google in most weekly site traffic, while some surveys reported nearly 95% of companies using LinkedIn to help in recruiting efforts. Conversations around the topic did begin to take place, But a global survey indicated that only 29 percent of companies even have a social media policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. One consultant predicted that firms in 2020 will seek the “same [attributes as in 2010] but with an even greater appreciation for the intangibles of leadership and [for experience] having led a business through tough times.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. The same survey found that 97% of marketing executives believe this to be a valid business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team. I was used to managing 200 Finnish nerds, with whom my straight-ahead approach (my nickname is "Bulldozer") got great results. But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. and other countries. And it wasn't working. By 2002, I was down to 54.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A “globalized hybrid,” she was born in Scotland, raised in England, has worked all over the world, and is now a US citizen. She has written nine commercially published books that have sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and several self-published ebooks. You can read more about Dr.Liz at her website www.drlizalexander.com.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Sixty-five percent of the more than 1,000 college-educated women surveyed consider themselves very ambitious, compared to 36 percent of their U.S. But the similarities end there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? And these folks don’t necessarily have a clue.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The Economist bemoans their “ great deceleration ” and HBR featured a well-researched study on how multinationals are becoming less global. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. A survey we conducted of companies in seven countries also brought its share of surprises. The short answer we find from our research is: No.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." Since then BCG, Accenture and other consultancies have confirmed the global skill shift. CEOs say that creativity is a crucial leadership skill, but few apparently have it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The CWLP survey found that 65% of educated Brazilian women view the public sector as very desirable to work for, head and shoulders above their counterparts in other BRIC markets. It's okay for a woman to be ambitious, but it's not encouraged," concurs a female senior manager at an international financial firm. counterparts (52%).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. But how much do these hazards actually cost global companies in emerging markets? Which are the most costly?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Soon after, I asked Gallup to conduct an engagement survey of our leadership to assess the level of personal commitment employees felt toward the organization and its goals. The results of Gallup’s initial survey of Campbell were very poor, among the worst they’d ever seen in the Fortune 500. 1, meaning that for every 1.67

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

According to a global survey we conducted, more than two-thirds of customers would consider buying insurance products from non-insurers, and 23% would consider buying insurance from online service providers such as Google or Amazon. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? First, it must start with the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

David is starting his first day as the “leader in residence” at Crotonville, GE’s global leadership institute, with a jog around the running trail with a couple of twenty-somethings who are half his age and might be five levels below him on an org chart. Leadership Leadership development Talent management' It is 6:00 a.m.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Called simply "The Prosperity Index," it is the world's only global assessment of prosperity that integrates measures of both financial income and nonfinancial wellbeing—in all, reflecting 93 dimensions of performance. The US remains 10th overall (same as 2010) and the UK also remains stable at 13th.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

And two, many managers don't really know how to do it. Moreover, managers don't have the tools they need to accurately measure results. Moreover, managers don't have the tools they need to accurately measure results. Ryan, a global tax firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, had a business problem. Managers were skeptical.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. For example , U.S.

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