The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This ready supply of stable income made the inherent uncertainty of entrepreneurship a difficult sell. They argue that, for instance, in medicine, the doubling of medical knowledge in 1950 took 50 years, in 1980 this had shrunk to 7 years, and by 2010 it was down to just 3.5 Better alternatives.

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 85

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It John Sullivan FORA.tv

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: HR-Guide.com | Main | Possibility Maximizer: Ask HR Bartender » October 25, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week It was another great week for reading HR, talent management, and leadership development blogs!

Blog 133

Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

Seers, prophets, and fortune-tellers of all sorts have responded to — and preyed upon — the primal desire we have to reduce the uncertainty of what lies ahead. Experts forecasted in 2000 that 30 gigawatts of electricity would be generated worldwide through wind power by 2010. It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015.

Project 67

Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." Our Freedom.

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. The wisdom that's been lost in economic theory is that uncertainty is both unavoidable and potent. The modern macro "synthesis" tended to give uncertainty only a bit part. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percent of economic activity in the U.S.

Real Estate 95

Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « The Cost of Low Performers | Main | The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week » May 28, 2010 Possibility Maximizer: Fear.less Happy Friday!    Memorial Day is right around the corner and with it comes the unofficial start of summer. 

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Newsletter Blog Welch 100

Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

I was a young manager at IBM just promoted to my first staff assignment in a regional marketing office. With many exceptional leaders that have had profound influences on my leadership career and my life, for which I am deeply grateful, the one to receive this honor is a leader that I only met with one time. His name was Bookie.

Advice 58

Advice Leadership Letter Class 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I 2010): 253-269. [6] How to Emulate the Most Innovative Leaders. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In many ways, the biggest business developments of 2010 were the things that didn't happen. This device quickly gained a 95% share of the tablet computer market and a big share of the public mind. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it.

Technology 14

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The first comes from a team of young entrepreneurs hoping to bring word-of-mouth marketing to China. The first team forged its idea in the white-hot heat of the market, which meant that the many assumptions that remained were grounded in real-world experience. Imagine you were choosing between two investment proposals.

Proposal 8

Proposal Innovation Word of Mouth Marketing Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility. Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, and chaos. and in its home market in the U.K.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., Throughout the continent — and this is true throughout other emerging markets too — millions of people are glued to their cell phones.

Innovation 8

Innovation Govindarajan Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

This experience came back to me in late 2010, listening to Steve Kaufman , a senior lecturer at HBS and the former CEO of Arrow Electronics, presenting at the Forum for Growth and Innovation. But uncertainty can be found in any work situation, not just after a takeover. Back at Smith Barney, I went through several weeks of uncertainty.

Uncertainty 15

Uncertainty Maslow Disruptive Innovation Report 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future. Not uncertainty over Obamacare, or "regulation," or any of the other bêtes noires of moment, but uncertainty over the lack of demand in an economy whose consumers and producers are paying back debt. After all, who opens a factory in the middle of a recession?

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets. Stall Out countries are also aging.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. Uncertainties could drag on for years. Another patron later picked it up from a barstool. The next morning, the phone didn’t work (having been disabled remotely) but the finder realized the device looked a bit odd.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Embracing pattern recognition enables organizations to navigate uncertainty more effectively. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Use Data and Analytics : Ask for and use the power of data and analytics to be a piece of decision-making. Jossey-Bass.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

When uncertainty is high regarding assessment of product and market potential, for example, the assessment of the entrepreneur’s potential becomes highly central in government VCs’ decision making. In fact, women-owned businesses receive much less — only 13%–18%, the rest going to male-owned companies.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

By March 2010, one in four people were " under water "; that is, they owed more on their mortgages than their houses were worth on the market. Five themes emerge: Uncertainty: It's not clear what the rules of the game will be in the emerging economy. As of November 2009, one in seven mortgages was delinquent.

Crisis 11

Crisis Education Influence Self-aware 11

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? All rights reserved.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. a decade later — was due to weak demand and uncertainty. The Economy in 2018.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Second, M&As are different than regular organic growth in that completing such a deal is associated with much greater uncertainty. You’re buying an unknown entity, possibly also entering a new market. That’s for the same reasons about overconfidence and uncertainty that effect M&As.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty CEO Sample Price 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This updated chart of the total number of liberal democracies is from Robert Prechter''s book, The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior , which observed that bull markets "tend to lead to political freedom, while retrenchments lead to political repression.". EWI is the world''s largest market forecasting firm. Related articles.

Marketing 90

Marketing Development Trends Open-book 90

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

and it’s as if the end of 2010 wasn’t just the end of a calendar year but the end of tough times. After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Extends the 2010 income tax, capital gains and dividend tax rates for all Americans.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

To respond to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the business environment today, IT leaders need to address risk differently by looking at it in totality and questioning their assumptions, challenging long-held assertions and recognizing both the analytical fallacies and less-than-perfect cognitive processes they use.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Some of the many cool things Jon Cropper has done includes helping MTV move into Asia, Latin America and South Africa, working with (the) Quincy Jones, and heading up Nissan North America’s youth and multicultural marketing (know the “Shift_expectations” ads?). His theme was Generosity feeds the Soul.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, over the past four years Republican economic opinion has shifted rightward, so one might want to consider another alternative world — call it DeMint ia — where all the big banks were allowed to fail, government spending was cut dramatically, and the Federal Open Market Committee was replaced with a simple gold standard.

IAS 12

IAS GDP Policies Short-term 12