Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

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. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). 2015, November). Let’s learn to do the “right things ‘righter’.” ” Want More?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The author examined 10 strikes of fixed duration by the Association between 2011 and 2015, with the majority of the strikes scheduled for a single day. Fixed duration The paper suggests that the fixed-duration strikes helped to ensure the membership was more militant with a much stronger social justice vision.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. Mobility will drive much of the expansion in Internet usage.

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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. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s Katrina allowed one of America’s most historic places to reimagine itself as a startup city.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth.

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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. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled. Matt Lyon/Getty Images.

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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. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500 had an average stay of 61 years. No industry is immune.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Bringing teaming into an organization plagued by legacy routines and mindsets is critical to reviving innovation and employee engagement. Innovation is always the product of teaming. Most people are waiting for a chance to step up and work on a compelling organizational mission. Top-down leaders simply can’t get that done.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

By 2011, data revenue had jumped to $59 billion. Even today, before whatever new innovations will be unleashed by 2017, a family of four with two smartphones and two regular phones could be looking at over $300/month in bills. As the report concludes, "NPD expects the average pay-TV bill to reach $123 by the year 2015 and $200 by 2020."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Improving Financial Performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

For an example of the kind of disruption such an attack could cause, consider the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Just look at the Ukraine power grid attack in 2015 , where the attackers used several different techniques , such as spear phishing and denial-of-service attacks, that were all readily available on the black market of the internet.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. In the fall of 2015, there will be at least 40 P-TECH schools, serving tens of thousands of students and 100 partner companies. But while this has happened, one sector has lagged behind: higher education.

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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. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

For instance, Skoda ran a campaign in 2015 , placing an AR mirror in a Victoria railway station in London, so that people passing by could customize a car and then see themselves driving it on a large screen. In each of these examples, the AR technology was used to engage customers at events or in public spaces.

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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. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. Diversity Can Increase Conflict, but Not as Much as You Think.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. The soaring U.S.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

November is National Entrepreneurship Month and, as someone who works with small business owners on a daily basis and knows how hard it is to grow a business, I can’t overstate how much I appreciate the creativity, innovation and hard work of today’s entrepreneur. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. ” Rule #2: Find a balance between derivative products, platform upgrades, and breakthrough innovation.

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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. In May 2011, when tickets to an S.M. K-Pop entertainment companies demonstrate how to innovate business models by changing the fundamental assumptions of existing ones. billion views on YouTube.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

The number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under 200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015. While investment in smart technology has gone up, many of these innovations are deployed without robust testing and cybersecurity is often neglected. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But some companies have what I call rural DNA – the ability to recognize the rural opportunity and to develop innovations to tap those markets along with their urban markets. Particularly in Asia, Unilever has pioneered a number of innovations that it has exported to other regions in its focus on addressing rural market opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. 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. index funds).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

But the cereal category declined $4 billion dollars from 2000 to 2015, so it didn’t matter. Similarly, categories decline when categories hit their peak and are replaced by better, more innovative categories. Like how the growth of and innovation in food service may eventually turn cooking into a niche hobby like sewing.

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