The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. One of the classic books about the forecasting fallacy was written by Dan Gardner. I’ve published many blogs and articles on the dangers of forecasts and predictions.

Agility 69

Agility Heskett Armstrong Uncertainty 69

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. This compares with just one in 2011.) Overall, it is the best ever showing for the women thinkers – with 13 places out of the top 50 (up from 11 in 2011 and just five in 2009.)

Blue Ocean Strategy 250

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

I have reviewed summary 360 feedback reports from many companies. 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 Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog'

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Construction Video Participative Efficiency 143

Jason Womack

DECEMBER 6, 2014

In 2011, a mentor of mine said: “You’ve got to find a problem you can fall in love with. I’ve got 9 of my 12 mapped out for 2015. Keep track of this over a week so you can do some kind of Weekly Review at the end. A problem that draws you in, teases you, and brings out the best in you.". Wanna talk about them? Let me know!

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Succession Learning-by-Doing Workshop Goal 140

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

” No one wanted to rest on their laurels while reviewing their scrapbooks and awards for 20 or 30 years. 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.

Drucker 126

Drucker Chief Executive Officer Participative Open-book 126

Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

Håkan Forss , King (interactive entertainment games), presentation at the GOTO Copenhagen 2015 conference. Related: Toyota Kata Song – The Times They Are Changing (2011) – Agile Software Development and Deming Management Ideas – Webcast on the Toyota Development Process – Future Directions for Agile Management (2008).

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Agility Deming Conference Software 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002. Franklin Covey, “FranklinCovey Global Time Matrix™ Survey,” 2011. Yerramsetti, Tim Gard, Sara W.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

As we reviewed the positive results from his co-workers, he had a great realization. “If 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. Leadership'

Succession 181

Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 from 2000 to 2010. Yet the overall picture disguises stark divergence.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

The then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was quoted in Wired of February 2011 stating: “The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience.” ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The 2000s saw expanding state budgets and welfare payments, in part linked to a decade of rising global oil prices that peaked at a stable range of around $100–110 per barrel between 2011 and mid 2014. in 2015 and 3.2% of GDP in 2015 and 2016. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8%

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. And its cars are winning rave reviews: According to Edmunds, the XC90 SUV “puts Volvo right back in the game.” Third, the company developed a strong system for integrating that new talent.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

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

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. times; and during the first half of 2015, valuations have continued to fall, to 4.4

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

.” There are several reasons why the top job is increasingly going to outsiders when boards have time to plan for succession, which was the case for nearly three-quarters of CEO hires from 2012 to 2015. The industries facing the most disruption have brought in higher-than-average numbers of outsiders recently.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s ” According to a CNN Money cost of living calculator using December 2015 figures from the Council for Community and Economic Research, the cost of housing in San Francisco is 227% higher than in New Orleans, groceries cost 25% more, and transportation costs 33% more.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Here, for instance, are the nations Russia exports to (the data displayed below is from 2011, but the charts are interactive — so play around with them to explore more data): A significant share of Russian exports end up in Europe, and a large share of Russian imports come from Europe.

Discount 9

Discount Energy Crisis Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. A 2015 report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimated the digital economy would contribute $4 trillion to the GDP of countries in the G-20 during 2016, and would continue to grow at a rate of 10 percent per year.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

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.

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

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. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia. I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

Politics 10

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

However, Nokia held on to Symbian until 2011, when it eventually switched to Windows operating system, which also underperformed. As one of the top managers reflected on the period from 2007 to 2011: “A lot of the board members felt that they weren’t always encouraged to speak freely [at that time].”

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

per year from 2011 to 2016, compared to 3% from 1996 to 2005, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A 2015 Deloitte study estimates that there will be 3.5 and other advanced economies have suffered a severe drop in productivity growth since the great recession. In the United States productivity growth averaged just 0.5%

Video 11

Video Technology Education Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020. The program delivered $1.6

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Barra’s devotion to great engineering and great products has been breathing new life into GM since she earned the top job in product development in 2011 (just this week, Barra introduced the GMC 2015 Canyon mid-size pickup truck , which she hopes will help grow the more fuel-efficient small truck market).

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

By 2011, data revenue had jumped to $59 billion. According to the NPD group , the cable bill for an average American household was $86 in 2011, and has been rising an average of 6% annually, while household incomes have remained flat or on the decline. By 2017, UBS expects carriers to be pulling in an additional $50 billion a year.

Analysis 8

Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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.

Power 10

Power System Video Transportation 10

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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

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.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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%. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

UK-based Marks & Spencer launched "Plan A" in 2007 , aiming to make the company the most sustainable retailer in the world by 2015 and incorporate sustainability attributes, such as sustainable cotton or wood, into every product it sells by 2020 (currently one-third of its products have Plan A attributes).

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

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.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

At a TechCrunch conference in 2011, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joked, apparently proudly , that “I think I’ve got 20,000 years of jail time in front of me.” Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of pieces marking Infrastructure Week 2015 that will explore the role of leadership in fixing U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8