Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  Construction on the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore began in 1296 and ended 170 years later.   They've set the standard in their discipline for their industry and others. She has allowed me to travel with her and introduced me to many stakeholders in the industry we serve.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

February 2011 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Archives February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 More.   I highly recommend that you put this book on your reading list.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. However I took great care of the team I had on my own outside of their quarterly bonus. I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. An idividual either has it or doesnt.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. The trick is to be focused.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve got an established way of looking at the world, which we constructed from our accumulated years of living. Instead, we need to remove the blinders and seek perspectives from people outside our industry or normal frame of reference. Read publications and books outside your industry. well said, thanks for the reminder!

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Involve stakeholders in a participatory way.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 17, 2010

Don’t try to over explain and (given that most people quit because of their relationship with their boss) don’t bother trying to offer any “constructive” feedback to your boss at this point. Industries are small and, in my experience, jerk bosses seem to be powerfully adept at managing their external reputations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

The weapons being brandished are devilishly constructed patents; the rules of engagement the arcane procedures of federal courts. And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. And I still do now. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

In industries ranging from consumer electronics to construction and from media to mining, the firms seizing the lead are those that can best align ecosystems of offers and partners. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

In his remarks, Chen emphasized that foreign investors should look favorably upon the opportunities in China, notably those connected to China's construction of many new small and medium-sized cities and towns. These are cities whose growth is often closely linked to the development of local natural resources or industrial hubs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction. For example, shipments of medical, scientific, and hospital equipment to China have risen 69% percent since 2011. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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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. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. About 40% of the world lives on $2 or less a day." We disagree completely.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

We looked at more than a dozen—both health care-specific programs with strong connections in the health care “ecosystem” and industry-agnostic programs. To augment our internal capabilities, we formed a network of outside experts and industry collaborators. Give constructive rejections. Industry input.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful. We wanted to learn more.

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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. In the case of strategic acquisitions, currency depreciation tells only half of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Between 2008 and 2012, Walmart more than doubled sales by adding 100 hypermarkets to its existing 400 stores, acquiring Trustmart in 2011, and picking up a majority stake in online retailer Yihaodian in 2012. And Caterpillar purchased mine safety company ERA for $677 million to break into the coal industry.

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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. The Golden State’s energy efficiency programs have saved its residents $74 billion over the last few decades and avoided the construction of more than 30 power plants.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. Success will follow the Airbnbs that start with clean interactions, the Alibabas that place orchestration over integration, and the Autodesks whose reusable Building Information Objects create an expansive and collaborative work platform in the construction industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

These techniques are rapidly changing many industries — could they also improve corporate governance? We address this issue by constructing a pool of potential directors for each board opening from those who, around that time, accept a directorship at a smaller nearby company. corporations between 2000 and 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This has helped cement the manufacturer’s brand as the most safety-minded player in the industry. One industrial producer of state-of-the-art equipment packs its big mobile units with collapsible exhibits which it can set up quickly at construction sites. And let’s not forget that the vehicles are also rolling advertisements.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Disinvestment in schools has also been central to teacher strikes that have occurred since 2011, in Jersey City, Philadelphia, Chicago (twice), Seattle, Portland and Wisconsin. It was then that a belief in external controls began influencing the industry. Stagnant job growth in the industry has also led to increased class sizes.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% million women-owned businesses in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Community and social media managers of 2011, please try to contain your amusement at the idea that 1000 posts per day represented an unmanageable volume.) Some say the main driver was the cost of transporting all the data involved in a smallish number of highly antagonistic, not very constructive conversations. Participatory.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” Also, some of those construction managers and first-line supervisors from the previous chart seem to have landed less-remunerated jobs as construction laborers in this one.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. The nature of large-scale digital is, I believe, something new in human endeavor.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Many years ago, when I first started to work in the advertising industry, we used to have this thing called The Overnight Test. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. So “here’s the thing”.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. This suggests that smaller breaches signal that others in the industry may also be vulnerable to hacking. In 2011 Citigroup experienced a data breach of 146,000 customer records and suffered a $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Many leaders, particularly in financial services industry, seemed perfectly happy to disrupt the global economy and lay off thousands of employees while collecting multimillion-dollar compensation packages. Self-Starters are a critical component of high performing teams and are by far the most effective followership type.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Don’t protest Walmart pre-construction and then immediately take your business there once the inevitable store opening occurs. i wrote about this here a few weeks ago ( [link] ) as relates to the American Booksellers Assoc suing Target, Walmart and Amazon for price cutting and threatening the local bookseller industry.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings. " even though the private sector's construction efforts are light years ahead of the government's ideas.

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