Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. Here are some examples: Prediction drives the coupons you get at the grocery cash register.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A great example of this happened in January of 2005 when Procter & Gamble bought the Gillette Company in the largest consumer packaged goods acquisition in history. P&G is a market leader in almost every category they compete in. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and a friend. One of them was Mike Berry.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s clear that in many cases, women are not just influencing the market; they are the market. In other words, women have been the market for some time now yet many executives have not taken action on this huge opportunity. In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Plot it out.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Khalil is preparing for a 2012 Fall launch. Menasha Packaging: Meet the163-year-old family-owned company who’s leadership team reinvented their business model and re-invigorated their culture 7 years ago, putting their careers on the line. What examples do you have of Rebellious Optimism? What drove this level of risk?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 3, 2012

As it’s only been a year since I’ve been a member of this school community, the main challenge I had with my speech was trying to find a message that would connect with the students at this pivotal juncture in their academic careers. For many of us, change is something we fear because it’s disruptive. Congratulations.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 3, 2012

As it’s only been a year since I’ve been a member of this school community, the main challenge I had with my speech was trying to find a message that would connect with the students at this pivotal juncture in their academic careers. For many of us, change is something we fear because it’s disruptive. Congratulations.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. This book is packed with loads of practical advice, tips, case studies, suggestions and examples that not only retain, but also engage and make your people as productive as possible. Smith, copyright 2012. The media is sounding more optimistic.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s hugely successful Lean In complements both by providing a clear example of a leader who demonstrates in action the managerial practices that both men advocate. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012.

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 3, 2012

There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today. Below are fourteen examples of the inside-out coaching paradigm revealed in Stillpower. © 2012 Garret Kramer, author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. Author Bio.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Best Leadership Books of 2012. Blog Post ). H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Always Hustle. by Brad Lomenick Brad Lomenick reflects on his leadership journey in H3 Leadership. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I observed this power of mission-driven servant leadership multiple times during my career. Perhaps the best example I saw was with Charlotte Pipe & Foundry. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company. Many have worked there for their entire careers. ” -Richard Bach.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

and published by Career Press. Filled with immediately implementable recommendations and real world examples, Act Like a Sales Pro is a StrategyDriven recommended read. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Marketing and Sales – Some Sales Are Simply Not Worth Making. written by Julie Hansen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. I hope they make you feel envious, too — and that you will send us your own examples so that we might learn from them as well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. I hope they make you feel envious, too — and that you will send us your own examples so that we might learn from them as well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A complete career change. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves. While not as high risk or high developmental impact as a career change, switching to a new company, or even division within a big company, offers the opportunity to apply what you know in an entirely new context. A job change. A geographic move.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), 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.

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The Idolbuster

MAY 11, 2012

On May 3, 2012, a dissident investor accused Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of falsifying his resume on the company web site and in financial disclosures by claiming a computer science degree that he didn’t earn. For example, Dan Lyons at The Daily Beast argues “Who cares? James, I think your cover's blown! from laverrue via Flickr.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

I am a living example of what writing can do to change a career. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Why not get praise for the great speech you gave at the conference every time someone walks by your booth, instead of trying to get them to putt a ball into a plastic cup. Write an article. Write an industry white paper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Empowering the Third Billion: Women and the World of Work in 2012," suggests concrete steps that governments and employers can take to tilt the scales toward success. Many of the issues that the Booz index identifies are ones that were spotlighted in the Center for Talent Innovation's research on women professionals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud. Since early 2012, Sodexo, the 20th largest employer in the world, has turned its recruiting focus from job boards to mobile applications. Career planning Social media' Mobile Recruiting Apps. How an Auction Can Identify Your Best Talent. Is that Good?

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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. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Their stories are prominent examples of a widespread pattern. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S.

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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. My hypothesis, and Stephenson agrees, is that for organizations to win in the market, they must help their employees stay relevant in their skills. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This increased reliance has strained many aspects of reservists’ lives, including their civilian careers, because activation to full-time military service requires reservists to be absent from their jobs for extended and unplanned periods. The military has relied more heavily on reservists than at any time since the Korean War.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

We share these examples here to illustrate how these forward-thinking companies are working now to address their future talent needs. To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions. American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Under his leadership, the company's total shareholder return outperformed its industry peers by 1,022%, corresponding to a compound annual return above the industry average of 129%, with a corresponding market capitalization increase of CNY 237 bn (USD 36.7 Our measure is objective, using stock market data as opposed to reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Under Rick’s guidance, his nephew prepared presentations, assisted in customer engagement projects, built a scheduling spreadsheet, suggested marketing recommendations, and formalized a development plan post-internship. This is the second post in a blog series on using mentorship to advance your career. Define the time commitment.

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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. What are some examples? 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

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

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Well, craft breweries do, and they aren’t happy about Big Beer infringing on their market. For example, the Coors logo doesn’t appear on Blue Moon’s packaging or bottles. While small-time brewers call that an authenticity problem, Big Beer says its just good marketing. It looks like a local brew. BEWARE OF QUICKSAND.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. In 2008, TURCK’s health care claim costs were $280.52 per member per month.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Especially in this job market. Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Obviously, you are going to have to keep doing this for the rest of your career. Well, as the cliché goes, hope is not a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yet, even smart companies are often clueless about how to leverage their employees’ insights that would enable them to tap into this huge and exploding Latino market — a market that is projected to reach $1.7 ” Multinational companies based in the US are desperate to unlock this growth market.

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