Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

By driving millions of transactional decisions with predictions about the future payment behavior of homeowners, Chase bolstered mortgage portfolio management, curtailing risk and boosting profit. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. Introducing.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

My insight on the topic is based on the corporate storytelling work I do on transformational leaderships as well as storytelling for influence and engagement. Not for a moment am I suggesting that we should ignore the strategic, tactical or operational. It is no surprise that some ask whether vision is relevant today.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 11, 2015

It is timely to revisit the message and challenge ourselves as business leaders to ensure we provide the most promising base for our leaders and managers to succeed. Maybe you can relate to the following scenario I originally presented in 2012. 1) That is only part of the story. You started in a company at a lower level.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

People started asking me if I had a change management kit based on what really works. DESIGN & INFLUENCE. The Irresistible Change Guide is an entire toolkit, which includes: The Irresistible Change Guide workbook binder that walks you through the steps to design and influence your change initiative. Introducing.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 8, 2013

For more than 100 years, United Illuminating provided electricity to its customers in Connecticut through distributed operations. The transitions described the changes they wanted to influence as the organization consolidated from seven locations down to one. The United Illuminating Story. How could they ensure service continuity?

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985). We look at the four main areas first, commonly known as the 4 ‘I’s’, these being: Idealized Influence (II).

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Five Trends .

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. Partnering with managers. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Their presence in top management positions today remains below 9 percent. In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. percent of the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

Whether a potential leader is a religious one, a political icon, or a corporate magnate, the gold standard of influence remains the same: 1) I am a leader, these are the tenets of my belief system. To do that, they must be able to operate unfettered by preconceived plans or flavor-of-the-month investment vehicles. About the Author.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Rather, style is judged by those immediately influenced by it. As originally published on “How We Lead” © 2012 Ken Blanchard, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. Author Bio .

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Rather, style is judged by those immediately influenced by it. He is the author or coauthor of 50 books that have sold more than 20 million copies, including the iconic One Minute Manager ®.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 10, 2015

They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Rather, style is judged by those immediately influenced by it. He is the author or coauthor of 50 books that have sold more than 20 million copies, including the iconic One Minute Manager ®.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Rather, style is judged by those immediately influenced by it. He is the author or coauthor of 50 books that have sold more than 20 million copies, including the iconic One Minute Manager ®.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Rather, style is judged by those immediately influenced by it. As originally published on “How We Lead” © 2012 Ken Blanchard, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. Author Bio .

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. Marketing & Sales business management Jeff Winsper marketing and sales strategydriven waterfall marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Since I didn't want to influence their answers, I asked open-ended questions instead of providing them with a list of topics to be ranked. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Price versus Value.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? We were interested in how lawyer CEOs might influence firm decision making more broadly — and whether they differ from CEOs without a law degree. More Litigation, or Less?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Posting is a formal, market-oriented process in which a hiring manager posts an open job to an internal job board and invites interested internal candidates to apply. As a result, posting and sponsorship operate side-by-side as equally viable ways to identify potential internal candidates within most firms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

One big problem is CSR departments lack the participation of big-spending commercial functions and the input of managers on the ground who better understand the local context. Apply world-class management. Walmart is one example of a company embedding a clear societal purpose into the aims of its management team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during patient handoffs, according to a 2012 Joint Commission report. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

When an event this complex is expected to deliver so much, the notion of managing it takes on a different character. Coordination becomes an exercise in influence more than control. The usual management focus on ensuring predictability has to be tempered with the recognition that surprises are inevitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37 billion in eight years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. When making a purchase decision, customers use an average of six different channels, which are often managed by different parts of the organization. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Since I didn't want to influence their answers, I asked open-ended questions instead of providing them with a list of topics to be ranked. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Price versus Value.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

According to a 2012 survey by Jobsite, 54% of recruiters use Twitter, 66% Facebook, and a whopping 97% LinkedIn, as recruitment tools. The big implication is that you need to invest a considerable amount of time managing your digital reputation. The only thing worse than not having a profile is having an undesirable profile.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. If he doesn’t feel that his caregivers are compassionate, that may heavily influence his overall perception of the experience. Customers Health Operations' Dig deeper into patients’ experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The MIT Forum launched an online survey in 2012 to understand what U.S. Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). Manufacturers of heavy products such as appliances or cars that are heavily influenced by shipment costs may find it pays to move production closer to market demand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. As business managers know, tariffs and quotas take time to shift sales from foreign to domestic sources—time they don't have during financial crises, as the credit needed to make payroll and to pay for parts and components dries up.

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