CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! This style requires the leader to continually adjust to emergent constraints and limitations imposed on him. Theres more than one way to skin a cat.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

" The participants in our organization's Leadership Development Program had just yesterday been discussing the importance of "leadership presence" It is important for leaders to recognize that their responses to issues and circumstances set the tone for those they lead. Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

From my experience heading Scotland’s National Health Service from 2010 until last August (and before as its director of health care policy and strategy), I know that such constraints can unleash innovations that will lead to better care — and better health — for communities.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

To choose abundance over constraints. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership. They way we work on projects and the way we manage projects tell a lot of the kind of person we are. At each step, we have a choice. To see possibilities amidst problems. To act rather than just preaching things.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Develop an Adaptive Mindset: To navigate successfully through the maze of VUCA, leaders will need to be comfortable with unclear situations and travel into unexplored paths. that we used otherwise.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking. Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

June 2009: Creativity, Effectiveness and Constraints I have always experienced that constraints boost creativity and spur insights. May 2009: 25 Lessons Learnt on Conducting Productive Meetings We know that meetings can be a huge waste if not conducted well. Read on to know more. It truly means a lot to me.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand. This lead to an immediate realization that everything we do is a project, be it loosing your weight, writing a book, painting your home, getting a degree or managing an improvement initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Like you, I have not failed here often, but only due to much constraint and assistance from God's Spirit. I always say, it's more difficult to react right than to act right. This is a strong challenge for all of us. Many times some followers look for reasons to judge or excuse their lack of honor.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Leadership is all about doing the best amidst constraints. Tags: Cultivate , Leadership , people development Leadership , Managing People | Tanmay July 15, 2010 12 Comments By Jagat , July 15, 2010 @ 6:20 am Hello Sir, Good Morning. That’s my take away for today: Great leaders are farmers - cultivators of human potential.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Give Targets and Measure – Throw reasonable constraints at your team. Constraints can fire up creativity. They don’t always need solutions which they just need to ‘implement’. If you always ask people to implement your ideas, you are killing their creativity. Give a problem but also give a reasonable deadline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Rather, Western firms need to make simplicity a key tenet of their innovation process by developing "good enough" offerings that deliver significant value for money to cost-conscious consumers. And they did it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

phony", "risk-averse"), rather than considering behavior within the constraints of a situation. We usually have incomplete information about the constraints other people face. We may have perfect knowledge of situational constraints, as well as realistic expectations, yet we may not perceive Jack's behavior accurately.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Poor countries face severe resource constraints. Constraints need not be limiting, they can actually be liberating. Over the years, they have developed and delivered over 25,000 affordable and appropriate artificial legs to amputees in remote areas of Thailand and surrounding countries. He set out to develop a solution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. Jugaad is a Hindi word that loosely translates as "the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

This is how a “constraint” mindset works. Well Invested Time in December 2010 By Tanmay , January 6, 2011 @ 1:45 pm @Ivana - Thanks Ivana, for sharing your perspective. Best, Tanmay By Ivana Sendecka , January 6, 2011 @ 2:38 pm You nailed it with bottom line, TV!;-) Spot on. If people don’t comply, punish them. Happy shipping.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

So investors can get companies more money, alleviating some financial constraints and enabling them to invest in growth. This is consistent with a 2011 article in the Journal of Finance, which also found that “patents of private equity-backed firms applied for in the years after the investment are more frequently cited.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Way back in 1960 – when Singapore was still a developing nation focused on the most basic needs like housing and clean water – the government introduced user fees for clinic visits, recognizing that individuals need to feel invested in their health-care decisions. Employers should encourage employees to save.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The best way to allocate resources depends on the nature of the resources, the constraints at hand and the organization’s mission. Within this framework the purpose is to maximize or minimize, as appropriate, the performance metric in the objective by assigning values to the decision variables that satisfy the constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In 2011, Thierry Andretta, the CEO of French fashion company Lanvin, announced an initiative called "no email Wednesdays" because he thought people had stopped actually talking to each other. In terms of taking something away, there are many management processes in large firms that are ripe for simplification.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. The Index finds that African citizens are the most optimistic in the world about entrepreneurship, but this resource remains underused because of various constraints—most notably poor infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. 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%.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s a challenge dialysis technology startup Advitos, a member of the EIT Health accelerator, have been struggling with, as resource constraints mean they have to focus their efforts on larger municipalities, and indeed in markets that they know well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. “If you’re cash-rich and time-poor, look for opportunities to trade money for time,” he says. Patch weak spots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. To develop a routine, time for reflection should be a regularly scheduled and a protected event on the leader’s calendar.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Until two decades ago, India's business groups diversified wildly because of the constraints to growth posed by licensing and anti-monopoly regulations. Flipkart is one of the best-funded startups in India; it had raised $31 million by 2011, when its revenues were just $11 million.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots. In the 1960s FM radio was finally set free of counterproductive regulatory constraints. and some 500,000 homes had receivers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In 2011, the 3-dimensional structure of a retrovirus protease was finally determined after eluding scientists for over a decade. Rather, the structure was determined by a group of gamers working in the cloud with a program called Foldit that was developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington in only three weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Mobile wallets, like Apple''s Passbook, bring coupons, gift cards, and loyalty cards together in one place without the constraints of a physical wallet. In 2011, Starbucks launched Android and iPhone apps that enabled customers to mobilize and easily reload their plastic cards or purchase new digital gift cards.

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