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JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. From a management and leadership standpoint, broad-level checklists can be helpful.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

But structuring an area of work in form of processes, you are reducing dependencies and improving operational efficiency. So if you are a manager or leader at any level, do a reality check this morning. Regards, Tanmay By Dhanashree , February 4, 2010 @ 6:22 am Inspired and Motivated after reading article. Don’t Kill It!

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks | Main | Possibility Maximizer: SelfGrowth.com » August 30, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Happy Monday and welcome back!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort. Returns management should be a major focus.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my top blog picks for the week June 7th - 13th, 2010. License. .  Enjoy!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. But improvement has improved. But improvement has improved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 28, 2013

But Ressler and Thompson present a way to make it possible, with a website filled with business cases and slide decks to help you justify a radical change to the way your company operates. In one example, Suntell, a company that sells loan risk management software adopted a ROWE strategy. 2010 Jan;95(1):21. [ii]

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If we're to actually get better at innovation, we need to understand the operating conditions that lead to it and move past the bigotry and biases. To do so, let's look at two distinguished firms side by side to see how innovation is entirely independent of size and more a function of different operating rules. Here's the bottom line.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. As for deciding who gets it?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. It is the core facet of how humanity has operated since history began; to share resources, to learn, and to instruct in kind.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

In a previous post , I cited Google's "20% time" policy, where software developers spend 20% of their jobs on projects they dream up. Atlassian, an Australian software company, has a similar policy. It also encourages their developers to identify software fixes and new products. The results?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. Fear is dead as a management tool. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. The best idea should win.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. Great professional achievements are tarnished against a backdrop of personal failure. You've helped me a great deal in this area Mike. Thanks for the great reminder. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship.

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QAspire

JULY 6, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid Most organizational/team improvement initiatives we undertake involve change - from current state of affairs to desired state. Leading In Adversity By Hans Wienen, July 7, 2010 @ 11:41 pm True points. “ Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. Translation software? I began Englishnization in 2010. points in October 2010 to 737.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. alone, according to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (note: the full report requires membership, but this number is mentioned about 9 minutes into the video at the CSCMP site).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

So the platform owner not only has to build a base of consumers who will use its platform and buy products, it also has to manage the relationship with complementary suppliers and their consumers. Consider the failure of Google Wave, Google's collaboration tool, launched in 2009 and killed in the summer of 2010.

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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. Getting to 1.5 Embrace renewable energy.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

No manager ever says, "Let's make our company a humdrum place to work." When 33 miners were trapped in a cave-in in Chile in 2010, the experts estimated that, with luck, they might possibly be rescued in four months. When Apollo 13 was aborted, programmers re-wrote some software in three days instead of the usual three months.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. billion in less than a year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. This ambitious goal envisioned a software program that learns by ‘observing and learning from the past, acting in the present and anticipating the future.’ The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team by Starbucker on March 15, 2010 They are often thrown into their jobs head first. But a lot of them do not, and that leads to lot of unnecessary upper management intervention.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I spent the last 18 months researching and writing a book on how organizations and leaders can do extraordinary things, even if they operate in pretty ordinary fields. Doyle became CEO in 2010, after some troubled years , when the company’s growth was slow and its stock price was stuck, a lame $8.76

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

AT&T was the only telephone operator in the United States; telephony was just one of many high-impact industries that were highly regulated and protected from competition. Managing your reputation and its attendant risks has become far more complex. Roughly half of the 4.4

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

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