Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them. Encourage self-expression and diversity of thought.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. The Money – Securing cash and backing.

Entrepreneur 65

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. The Money – Securing cash and backing.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. The Money – Securing cash and backing.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

The contribution of technology in improving customer experience is well documented, but little has been done in using it for enriching workplace experiences. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources. Digital technologies forced-disruption of all that.

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Agility Self-aware Innovation Human Resources 90

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. Second, having a diverse set of employees would help Yelp to customize its services for its diverse set of users.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In selecting the first 25 coaches, I have tried to achieve a great deal of diversity. Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. The 25 have come from eleven different countries.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. IT companies, in particular, need to be deliberate in getting out in front of change or risk being surpassed by advancing technology. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Diversity and Inclusion – Return on Investment, part 3: Employee Productivity Enhancement. Consider leaving a comment!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

This diverse group of coaches are some of the top people in their fields and will come from around the world to join me in Phoenix June 23-25! Magazine nominee, founder and CEO, Corent Technologies, author The 10x Innovation Revolution: Inspiring a Culture of Disruption and Entrepreneurship Within Any Organization.

Executive Coaching 70

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 5, 2013

So, with that in mind, here are five attitudes that I think will be necessary for business leaders to take, in achieving success in 2013 and beyond: Attitude # 1: Diversity is not a black and white subject ~ There are a myriad of distinctions between human beings. That makes valuing diversity a business imperative.

Diversity 88

Diversity Construction Webinar Training 88

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In fact, for women, the technology gender gap seems to be getting bigger, not smaller. In 1984, 37% of these degrees went to women vs. just 18% in 2013. Nor is there a surplus of black or Hispanic workers. Women are earning fewer computer science bachelor’s degrees than they did 30 years ago. They comprise 30% of the U.S.

Industry 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

And, for all that has been written about the woeful lack of diversity and the “bro culture” that prevail in the tech industry, Silicon Valley’s 150 biggest tech companies have faced more accusations of age bias over the past decade than racial or gender bias. It’s time we embraced age like any other type of diversity.

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence Diversity Class CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

Software 8

Software Diversity Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors. The quota policy has its critics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 billion by the U.S. By the time the U.S. billion loss.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) One idea we retained from GE was to celebrate diversity. Find ways to have fun.

Management 9

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases.

Stress 8

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Her company has the bold goal to attract and train hundreds of thousands of new networking professionals by offering certification courses in networking technology and other training resources. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Strength in Diverse, Collaborative Teams. These firms lacked diverse, highly collaborative leadership teams. How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley? Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

Storytelling 13

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers. had a diversity metric.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. Rosenfeld estimates that about a third of the rise in income inequality since the 1970s is due to unions’ decline — the same share that he attributes to economists’ favorite explanation for rising inequality, rising rewards to skilled workers due to technological change. of the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 After studying meetings of various sizes, researchers have concluded that the optimal number of participants is seven or eight — small enough for good discussions, but large enough for a diversity of opinions. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. Earlier this year we led a thought exercise for 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley technology company. ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 28, 2013

I wrote this post last year in contemplation of the beginning of 2013. So, with that in mind, here are five attitudes that I think will be necessary for business leaders to take, in achieving success in 2014 and beyond: Attitude # 1: Diversity is not a black and white subject ~ There are a myriad of distinctions between human beings.

Diversity 97

Diversity Construction Webinar Training 97

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. I’m not sure there’s anyone in Airbnb who’s been asked to chat by a more diverse collection of employees. That’s when Airbnb came calling. And I’m grateful.

Industry 15

Industry Library Hotels Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Other companies pray that technology can save them. But technology for technology''s sake can end in disaster.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

on instruments and tools that a dynamic information and communication technology sector, drawing on all the research that preceded and accompanies it, has bestowed on us. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization. We have come to rely much – too much? –

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