Tim Milburn

JUNE 21, 2012

Stallone, here’s a brief snapshot: After getting no career traction as an actor in his 20s, Stallone attacked his 30s like any 5’3 man should…He wrote a movie where he was an all-American hero with unbelievable success in sports. Since January, 2012, I have tried to offer 4-5 posts per week. We avoid it. We ignore it.

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Resistance Maturity Learning-by-Doing Sports 160

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Buy the sports car you always wanted, go to that exotic locale you always imagined yourself visiting, learn to play the guitar or the piano. These are the kinds of people who could jump at a moment’s notice to better-paying positions elsewhere. Older people offer other valuable advice: “Follow your dreams.”

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Advice Follow-up Sports Learning-by-Doing 136

Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Importantly, given the social and cultural context of business today, it can be particularly challenging for members who fall into Millennial (born 1981-1996) or iGen cohorts (born 1997-2012) to step into an established family enterprise. This can occur by sharing stories about individual members who live the family’s values.

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How To Diversity Open-book Consultative 304

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, long-term, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved positive change in key leadership behaviors – and become more effective leaders – as determined by their key stakeholders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 18, 2013

Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion: I behave this way. Our positive beliefs about ourselves help us become successful.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 107

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Havas Sports & Entertainment (HS&E) provided advice to a number of brands considering sponsorship of the 2012 Games. It was too late to source information relevant to 2012 decision-making, so we're using these Games as our test bed to determine the effect that sponsoring the Olympic Games has on sponsors' brands.

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Brand Audience Committee Sports 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For example, what are elite sports? What are working-class sports? They sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of the top 147 law firms in 14 cities, from fake law students looking for a prestigious summer associate position. Sports isn’t the only culture difference that class is expressed through.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. For example, look at Lululemon. The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. billion in eight years.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Genesys, a pioneer of customer experience and call center software, has offices across the globe, and it’s growing quickly, having acquired 10 companies since 2012. The company needed to spread the message that, in fact, GE is involved in fascinating projects that will affect the world in positive ways.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Drawing on a sample of top science talent — 6,469 people who graduated from MIT between 2006 and 2012 — Shu shows that Wall Street is not attracting the best future scientists and engineers out of college (or at least, not the ones from MIT).

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. Unbelievably, every time, they find some. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

When Avon Products CEO Sheri McCoy took the helm in April 2012, she acknowledged that resolving a bribery crisis in China would be a slow process, but she had no idea how slow — it’s proving to take longer and cost more, she told analysts, while also mounting multiple initiatives. Decisions are made behind closed doors.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

It was the first time I heard the word "viral" applied positively. billion in 2012 to $20.89 They describe themselves as "a multi-platform media company with a focus on sports, culture, and lifestyle." We were blown away. People don't share ads," we told ourselves. They share candy bars, and Coca-Cola, and porch swings."

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Advertising Media Content Brand 10

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. One day, this Tweet caught the team’s attention: “I’m a Volkswagen/Audi guy and I’m driving this new Edge Sport, and I think it’s pretty cool.” Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

The data show that social skill tasks grew by 24% from 1980 to 2012, compared to only about 11% for math-intensive tasks. There seems to be a positive return to social skills in the labor market, according to the data, and that return is relatively greater when people are in jobs that require more interaction with others.

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Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the three years since December 2012 (the date of the Sandy Hook killings) the U.S.-based The gun manufacturers, however, have better data than anyone on dealer performance and are in the best position to quickly stop supplying them if disproportionate numbers of their guns are used in criminal activity.

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

“Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir. Plus we switched to a positive style of teaching and we saw our graduation rate rocket up.” This made a huge difference.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Jeremy Lin has captured the attention of the sports world in dramatic fashion. Well…actually, the back-up part ended on February 4, 2012. There are some people who feel like they deserve the position and then they’ll prepare accordingly. Lin plays for the New York Knicks as a back-up point guard.

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Leadership Fashion Sports Skills 103

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Participation in a varsity or intramural sport was required every semester. I’ve return to visit the place several times since then, and there have been some positive changes. Copyright 2012. We weren’t allowed to leave the West Point campus, even on weekends. Back then, freshmen weren’t even allowed to go home for Christmas.

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Class Construction Engineering Learning-by-Doing 75

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. Don't Praise.

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Blog Company How To Mentor 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose's mandate was to reduce employee turnover to below 10% by 2012. He believed such a move would not only directly and positively impact SAP's core business, but also improve employees' level of engagement, working conditions and morale. The India lab now ranks #1 in employee satisfaction within SAP's global network of 15 R&D labs.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

A culture that feels upbeat and positive but doesn’t contribute to profitable growth or beating the competition is destined for the dustbin. In sports, everyone gets that and knows what winning looks like. That’s true as far as it goes—but winning cultures have a hard, metrics-driven element as well. Things look even better for 2013.

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Open-book Metrics Bottom-up Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In 2012, he won gold in the coxless four at the London Olympics with teammates Tom James , Andrew Triggs Hodge , and Pete Reed. You get immediate positive feedback — you looked great out there, that’s perfect, well done! And I think that’s as true in business as it is in sport. You end up improving on that stuff naturally.

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Sports Training Learning-by-Doing Career 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Leaders also engaged with the entire workforce at once, in sports stadiums. This has had a positive effect throughout the industry: Fatalities in South African mining as a whole have declined by about 25%. Many employees were not prepared to change, and almost all the managers at the Rustenburg mine were replaced.

Operations 8

Operations Industry CEO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell semiautomatic rifles in its hunting and fishing stores (it had already stopped selling them at its main stores after the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting). hbr staff/thelinke/Getty Images.

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Politics Brand Participative Retail 8