Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Once I noticed these patterns, my goal was to understand the root cause of conflict mismanagement. The point is, they’re every bit as uncomfortable with conflict as the person who avoids or appeases; they just have a different method of operation. I used to think the pattern was due to lack of skills development.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This type of follow-up will assure continued progress on initial goals and uncover additional areas for improvement. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In fact, if you take a close look at the data, it’s amazing how bad many of us in business are at utilizing our time and staying focused on our goals. The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Franklin Covey, “FranklinCovey Global Time Matrix™ Survey,” 2011.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Their commitment to their goals and beliefs allows them to view reality through rose-tinted glasses – and that’s a good thing in many situations. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled. Matt Lyon/Getty Images. The decline in demand for paper hit Stora Enso hard.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia. The situation was dire. So did we succeed?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s Vice President of global engineering, John Calabrese, told reporters that Barra’s goal was to encourage collaboration — and to show that they could have a little fun at the same time. Jump to last year and Barra again demonstrated her appreciation for teamwork by challenging 250 designers and engineers to a paper sailboat race.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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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. million.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.

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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. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

By early 2015, around 30 large companies, representing over 1.5 At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we’ve been studying this trend closely since 2011. Yet in mid-2015, the trend started to accelerate. By September 2015, 51 large firms were moving to a no-ratings systems. Who sets 12-month goals anymore?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In fiscal year 2015, UUHC supported 10 physician-driven initiatives to improve customer service and care. Saving money was never the goal, but collectively these and other initiatives have reduced costs by more than $5 million. And in 2015, we were judged the safest university hospital in the country. Meaningful information.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. In 2015, Alon Halevy, a former Google research scientist, joined the company to help guide this effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

A follow up survey in 2011 found similar results: globally, 9% of contributors were women; in the U.S., Last year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the site, said that the organization failed to meet its goal of increasing women’s participation to 25% by 2015 , despite launching several initiatives.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Fast forward to June 2015, legacy and newer brands alike, such as American Airlines, BuzzFeed, Honey Maid, Ketel One, MasterCard, Spotify, Target, and Uber, flew the rainbow flag for marriage equality. They considered these brands leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

As a fighter pilot during the Cold War, I trained for years to fight the Russians, but on April 4, 2011, I stood at the base of a Soyuz rocket named Gagarin , in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight. True collaboration is not possible in an entirely authoritarian, command-and-control environment.

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