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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

Coaching Tip

Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Concurrently, online advertising competition has increased with Microsoft/Yahoo and others digging into Google's search engine advertising market share through providing better value to online advertisers.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Boeing undertook one of the most extensive outsourcing campaigns that it has ever attempted in its history. It's easy to blame the outsourcing. At least not yet.

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How Big Companies Beat Local Competition in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. 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. This is not guesswork.

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Indeed, as one commentator put it, the guest list at this summit meeting represented "a who's who of outsourcing American jobs.". President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation."

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

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It's Manufacturing's Turn for Special Treatment

Harvard Business Review

And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don't have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. Sure, with improvements in information technology and communication, some services are becoming more tradable and that creates opportunities for the U.S. Strengthening the industrial base.