In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. As a result, most are singularly unprepared to deal with them.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. As an example, Look at Apple! AAPL) the iPod, iPad & iPhone are cherished as innovative and beautiful products.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. In my experience, culture is frequently at the center of resistance to a strategy and the required execution. I think not, and I’ll explain why. Joe Rafter I doubt we are far apart.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Resist the temptation to tell the boss every little detail to show you’re ready for all possible glitches that could delay the project. the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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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). However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs. Intermountain thus lost more than $9 million per year in operating margins.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Thereafter, tools of the trade (including technology) may be applied.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. It’s a grotesque irony that our experiences of the world wide web today are actually pretty local, despite warnings from the likes of Eli Pariser back in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising. That''s a problem.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. Anthony Rose Thanks for the info, I didn't know that before.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business. The first step is to understand the nature of insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. I should know. Consider the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

They ask themselves big, searching questions like: "What new trends and technologies could possibly undercut our current business?" "Are They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence. Are our new ideas big enough? Valuable enough?" What's the market for them?"

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. If you mange organizational structure, technology, and expectations with conscious attention to the sharing of knowledge, a knowledge sharing environment will emerge easily. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks is just one of many companies using this type of technology, and it’s not hard to understand why. In 2011, over 4,000 workers from Macy’s threatened to go on strike , in part because employees felt that the management was pushing for an online scheduling system that would make their schedules unpredictable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

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