Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. 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. percent of executive officers, 8.1 They hold just 16.9

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. We found that female CEOs face a greater threat of shareholder activism than male CEOs.

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CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program. A similar thing happened with one of the hospitals I featured in the first edition of my book Lean Hospitals , when a new CEO came in and made it clear that Lean was no longer needed.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. Manufacturing is not the most glamorous business, and MBA recruiters are known for tempting people into more “prestigious” careers. To: Anil Baba, CEO. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position.

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

So why do we assume that our CEOs will? Like Federer, some CEOs consistently win in one context but lose in another. If you’re involved in CEO selection, this requires that you both hire the right CEO and understand when the company’s strategic situation suggests that a different CEO is more likely to win.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. I wanted that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves. level is a pretty dated concept.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

That’s an interesting question that I think far too many CEOs are probably struggling with right now; how do I deal with that? Everybody was expanding and growing and you had this really crazy stuff going on, people who didn’t know how to operate in a competitive market. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it.

Organization 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Why Lululemon''s "CEO Wanted" Ad Is Bad for the Brand Fast Company. And the decision to post a “CEO Wanted” sign on the home page was timed terribly. First See-Through Pants, Now This. BONUS BITS: Getting Around.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. Define your role and career path.

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. They had no career consequences — no one outside of HR, not even managers’ bosses, saw them. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Its CEO (John Y. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Colonel Sanders died in 1979. All rights reserved.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Our new book, Fear Your Strengths (2013), is a cautionary tale based on 50 years of combined experience assessing thousands of leaders and coaching hundreds of executives. Show us a strength and we''ll give you an example where its overuse has compromised performance and probably even derailed a career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Unless the companies make radical changes, the best talent will go elsewhere.

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