Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Given that I’ve written about how to design great leadership development programs , I thought it might make for an interesting case study to share with readers how I applied a lifetime of leadership development expertise to this program. It’s written by professors from Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and Simmons School of Management.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Conaty and Charan illustrate in great detail the specific programs these organizations use to develop talent and plan for and execute on succession plans; including the behind-the-scenes consideration of organizational, cultural, and operational impacts such changes incur. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

If I was to observe this group in a meeting and workplace situation what would I see, how would the individuals interact, how would the team interact, how would topics be discussed…Describe what I would see as an observer that would make me say…WOW this group is operating at a 6, as opposed to a 3 or 4.” All rights reserved.

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Leadership COO Team Building Active Listening 125

Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. Isn't it terrible that some business unit leaders, directors and managers managed to protect their image while killing so many people and creating such a horrible travesty. Posted by: Mike Henry Sr.

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Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Editor's Note: Like HBR's traditional case studies, this online-only "flash" case study dramatizes a dilemma frequently faced by leaders in real companies. This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. What Google could do better.

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CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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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). Edwards Deming’s process management theory. Correctly managed, they lead naturally to patient-centered care.

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Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Organizations can encourage managers to talk with their direct reports about what aspects of work they find meaningful, and get managers to share their perspectives with employees, too. increase in annual operating profits.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. Together, these companies have spent billions on innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

How you managed people there will not work here. Having led and managed people in eight countries across three continents, I have found the exact opposite to be true. I'd like to point you to two well-known case studies — one from Asia, one from America. Managers are encouraged to innovate. Europe and Asia.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 14

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. an estimated $100 billion per year. There are ways of cutting the bill down to size and meeting the challenge.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

" If you, or anyone else is interest in reading about those they can download my report filled with specific client case studies at [link]. Communicate more effectively. Communication skills are so essential for leaders that it is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

My colleague Benjamin Mazzotta and I have been studying the costs of cash across a wide range of countries: U.S., offers an interesting case study in what happens when only about a third of all transactions are conducted using cash payments. Mexico, Egypt and India. With the exception of the U.S., How can this be?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Long road ahead.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired Kerri Nowak I greatly appreciated this post! Any manager or supervisor that showed any leadership or aggressiveness was immediately dismissed. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. https://www.managers.org.uk/practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Some months back, J.P. Betsy asked.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Risk management team.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. He has written a case study about food safety testing and is the author of All Business Is Local. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be?

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Spot them and avoid them.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Case Study: Blue Apron.

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IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. Not that Scott needs me to come to his defense, but he is a professional in the truest sense of the word.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Tatum discusses the 5 critical success factors for managing, driving and sustaining growth, along with case studies of companies that succeeded or failed during No Man’s Land. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). Sweden is starting to look like a needle — a perfect site," said Michael Kirkland, communications manager at Facebook.

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Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. Unless you've actually been in the shoes of your clients, I don't think you have a right to advise them. D from Columbia.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Corporate Culture.

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