Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” California is also delivering some big results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

The average breach costs around $4 million. New Yorkers could manage for a few hours, maybe a few days, but what would happen if the outage lasted a week or more? New Yorkers could manage for a few hours, maybe a few days, but what would happen if the outage lasted a week or more?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. But Microsoft’s management saw in LinkedIn a valuable new sales channel that the market had missed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Sustainability Talent management' They equip employees with the right tools and training.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By 2015 we'll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that's just the beginning. According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

With production costs rising in China, some companies are bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. That's partly confirmed by the data: The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) recently reported that U.S. increase in manufacturing in July 2011, with a year-on-year gain of 3.8%. A resurgence of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

Advancements in artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices have made it possible for cities to increase efficiencies across multiple services like public safety, transportation, water management and even healthcare. An estimated 2.3 the technology research and advisory company. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Won’t providers be pressured to raise scores by bending to unreasonable patient demands, and won’t that erode quality of care and raise costs? Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs. Payments to physicians rose 42% from 2011 to 2015.

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Review Health Care Quality Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band, earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. Three factors have made the difference: Strategic talent management. The main difference between K-Pop and the rest of the music industry is talent management. In May 2011, when tickets to an S.M.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. Unilever told me that the initiative had doubled its rural coverage in the Philippines while also reducing distribution costs.

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Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.

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Education Engineering System Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. A 2015 Harvard Business School study showed that CEOs’ schedules typically leave them with as little as 15% of their time for working alone. ” Yana Kakar, Global Managing Partner of Dalberg, reserves 3 two-hour blocks of time for reflection each week.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. In PPP terms, the US invested $86 billion in 2015, which is roughly 62 times the amount invested in the UK in the same period. Making the most of automation.

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 77

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

But the cereal category declined $4 billion dollars from 2000 to 2015, so it didn’t matter. ” The first problem is it encourages managers to focus most of their attention on market share and not enough on the category itself. In fact, total sales at General Mills has declined for 15 of the last 16 quarters.

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Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. ESPN was conducting business as usual until it peaked at 100 million subscribers in 2011; it’s declined to 87 million subscribers today, largely due to cord cutters who never had cable.

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Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Per capita annual health care costs are roughly $4,500 for people age 19 to 44; they double for people age 45 to 64; and they double once again for those 65 and older. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone.

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. Instead, less-impactful and short-lived "initiatives" that satisfy diversity management come across as well-orchestrated efforts to simply acknowledge the existence of Hispanics, but don't invest in real solutions. Think profit center, not cost center.

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Policies Short-term Diversity Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. Instead, less-impactful and short-lived "initiatives" that satisfy diversity management come across as well-orchestrated efforts to simply acknowledge the existence of Hispanics, but don't invest in real solutions. Think profit center, not cost center.

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Policies Short-term Diversity Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. During the debate in 2009, before the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) was passed, I argued that health care would continue to be unaffordable unless America addressed the root cause of its high costs. Sponsored by Medtronic. Focus on improvement.

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