Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Establish Guardrails I worked in several large companies during my corporate career, and I can’t tell you the number of pet projects that became my pet peeves. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product and bring in $20K in revenue by April 2012, or we will go back to the drawing board. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. We decided that our children needed more parental involvement, a scenario faced by many dual-career couples. That was a decade ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again. If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

This past year, I have spoken with a number of career centers in universities. It’s about learning to continuously learn over the course of your whole career. Look for talent who has demonstrated the ability to learn new skills to advance their career, which shows they have the ability to learn.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 18, 2021

A 2012 article in The Atlantic talks about the concept of “mismatch” and how, “The student who is underprepared relative to others in that class falls behind from the start and becomes increasingly lost as the professor and his classmates race ahead. Additional Reading: You Deserve It, But… Moral Character Matters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. His life was set. They settled for off-the-shelf lens instead of expensive custom lens.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Yet "The Problem of Social Cost" has proven to be one of the most-cited articles in the history of economics. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Yet, we are paid 23% less than men on average.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In In 2012, the New York Times published a round-table debate about it. For background on other 21 st century challenges of managing your career, see our article “ Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life “ in the March issue of Harvard Business Review.). This practice isn’t new, but it’s been on the rise in recent years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook's career followed a very different path. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. As a recent New York Times article pointed out, that's the kind of sales per employee that consulting firms deliver, not retail stores. The rest is history, technically and financially.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers. Phil Ashley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. The constant saturation of negative school headlines took its toll: The public’s approval rating of public schools fell from 58% in 1973 to 29% in 2012. ” Except today, they’re not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

In an article in the December Atlantic , Don Peck described Knack’s success in identifying successful idea generators at Royal Dutch Shell, and depicted such game-based assessments as part of a revolution in people analytics that would transform hiring over the next decade. Hiring Information & technology Job search'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. Push paper, systems, technology. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Science-Technology Provider. Career Worker. Career Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. To hire the right people for the right roles, it’s important to distinguish between different types of data scientist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. So they looked around for a different career and discovered teaching. ” This clearly isn’t true.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and initiative. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You always give your customers their money’s worth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

universities lost ground in the UK magazine Times Higher Education 2012 list of the world's top 200 universities. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S. Fifty-one of 76 U.S. China's share is 9%, and rising quickly. In the U.S.,

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Our journey to transform our business from a traditional cigarette manufacturer to a science and technology-driven company is one of the most dramatic pivots taken by a major multinational company in recent history, so by definition, it impacts our people deeply. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

training and coaching programs focused on markets, products, customers, and sales processes), and retaining good salespeople and managers at every career stage (e.g. As we suggested in a 2012 HBR piece , there are no silver bullets. programs for energizing people and reinforcing a sales culture that breeds success).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Technological advances and employers looking to lower costs have resulted in more people working outside an office than ever before. by 80% between 2005 and 2012. It’s critically important not just for your career, but for your psychological well-being,” he says. By one estimate, telecommuting increased in the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Greatness is earned over an entire career. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Rolex Watches. Yes, indeed.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

There is a lot of advice out there about keeping your online activity from hurting your career. Expertise can be noticed more easily," says Soumitra Dutta, a professor in business and technology at INSEAD, author of "What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy?" But there's a flip side. Status is much more democratic now. How it works.

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