Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. He is the author of numerous publications in the field of leadership, organizational behavior and management.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

In commercial, industrial, and government applications—in the real-world usage of machine learning to predict—it's known as: Predictive analytics —Technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

A number of longstanding companies who failed to do that are now either out of business or in some serious bother because, either in whole or in part, they have found themselves being outpaced by technology and consumer demand for ever evolving applications. Originally posted in November 2012. That’s what I think anyway.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Gifford Pinchot, inventor of the term intrapreneur, has shown how major corporations can provide positive opportunities for reasonably autonomous enterprises to operate within the larger corporate structure.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2014

Their markets did not affect each other that much and so they operated in parallel without much worry about the impact they made on each other. That makes leadership more complex than before and the successful leader, a person who must practice both the science and the art of it. Note: This post was originally published in May, 2012.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Is your security budget directed primarily to the Information Technology (IT) department? Realizing that business operations security is a business issue and not just an IT “thing” has become the new cybersecurity paradigm. This holistic approach requires an enterprise-wide security investment in people, process, and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. Not likely. Just think about all the ways that digital is integrated into your own daily routine.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. That makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In a 2012 New York Times column, Thomas Friedman reported asking an Egyptian friend about the protest movements in that country: “Facebook really helped people to communicate, but not to collaborate,” he replied.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise.

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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. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. Playing development to win will be the hallmark of great companies operating in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Demonstrating technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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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. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company blind to the disruptive changes in its marketplace. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. .*

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. The gender gap has continued to widen since then. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). Turnarounds operate on several time frames. Change management Leadership' Decisions are made behind closed doors. Accusations and blame abound. Think small as well as big.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2012. What made Mr. Ovshinsky's work particularly remarkable was that he had little connection to mainstream physics. photovoltaic industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. Leadership Boards'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In fact, 2012 is likely to be the hottest year since accurate record-keeping began in the late 19th century. The good news is that we have the technology to detect and reduce leakage — and no one should be against common sense measures to prevent the waste of this precious natural resource. Fortunately, U.S. Some 30 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Wise leadership does not fit the strict patterns of smart analysis, but instead taps into an intuitive part of who you are at the core, unearthing counterintuitive principles: Compassion doesn't have to come at the cost of efficiency — it can actually drive systems and operational excellence. What is your North Star?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. As a result, companies operate below their potential. This is the true task of leadership.

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