The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. Such statistics have prompted some researchers to propose an optimum working time , from a productivity perspective at least.

Osborne 68

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 68

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

This of course directly correlated to our proposal win-rate of only about 40% of the bids in our facilities related departments. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Prior to the leadership intervention, our campus customers said we took too long and were too expensive. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. It’s the best thing because it opened my eyes to a better way of leading people.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack propose a series of steps you can use to access the hypnagogic state, the creatively fertile period that you experience before you fall asleep. And remember: You’re wasting your time if you propose your ideas once, and then give up if they’re not embraced immediately.

Creativity 13

Creativity Forrester Proposal How To 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Employees are invited to propose ideas for new products and services that have a business case and promise to make a positive impact on society. To his mind, men and women with a good self-understanding and a high regard for followers would prove resilient and open to learning and growing throughout their careers.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

What to do, then, to prevent new parents from reverting to ingrained, gendered behavior patterns, replete with disappointment, exhaustion, derailed careers, and worse? Goldin proposes that employers stop disproportionately rewarding people who work particular continuous segments of time. There’s good news, though, on this front.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Health Care Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming.

Innovation 12

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

My first job out of college did little to prepare me for my future career, but it did teach me something about power — and that all companies should adopt a black-and-white policy when it comes to sexual contact between supervisors and their employees. Rob Atkins/Getty Images. Power is power, wherever you are.

Policies 8

Policies Ethics Training Library 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The proposal was not immediately welcomed by the companies who anticipated all sorts of problems with contracts, arrangements and equity. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Our group welcomes the competition. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. What are the steps that you have taken during your career to become a more strategic thinker?

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

You must also be willing to extend your timeline if your proposed end-date doesn’t seem realistic the closer you get, adds Clark. How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. ” Save money.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Before I left Partners to join the Commonwealth Fund in 2013, we had chosen the EHR and begun the rollout of the new IT infrastructure.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8