Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." And, how to be prepared -- physically, mentally and emotionally. Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

February 4, 2013. Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Book : How to Win Friends and Influence People. How to Build a Professional.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. You just finished reading How to Lead in High Turbulence - 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution !

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 8, 2013

Cute kids scooted from booth to booth, trying to win tickets with their skills. I was recruited to operate the game where they attempted to throw golf balls into buckets of different sizes. They don't consciously think about how to do something, then decide to do it that way. By the way, this is how adolescents do it, too.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. The Ideal Team Player : How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues by Patrick M. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business. It means knowing how to mix and match. Beta leaders need to be curators, not commanders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And once they know what they want, how can they convince hiring managers that their skills will translate — especially if they’re not quite sure they will? ” He originally worried that recruiters would look askance at the gap on his resume, and his nontraditional choice of how to fill the time.

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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. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Research shows that 60-80% of all difficulties in organizations stem from strained relationships between employees, not from deficits in an individual employee’s skill or motivation. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. They help you or they hurt you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. CB: We’re in the middle of a “skills shift.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Leadership curricula should focus on two key sets of skills.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 He knows exactly how to run that factory. Here’s how to get started: Hire an expert international consultant. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You couldn’t be more wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. I also talked with HR about how to formalize this. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst. From: Sameer Hopskin, Asst.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

How to grow revenues? How to profitably service existing customers? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. ” Here’s how it worked: At the beginning of each program, participants identified a challenging and complex problem in their business or function (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Many organizations aim to narrow the “digital divide”: the socioeconomic gap between people with Internet access and the skills to make use of it and people who lack those resources. By charging even a small amount, ICT initiatives get a clear signal about how to adapt their offerings in response to changing conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Ken Powell of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2013. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. The results have been impressive. By 2017 it had grown organically to $12.79 billion worldwide.

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . Steven and Erika hire for attitude and train for skill. we aren’t afraid to laugh and joke around but we know how to work hard.

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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

APRIL 9, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. A second phase involves bringing in outside help to coach employees on how to study and manage learning English. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Quantum computing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

He knew that as the nature of work transformed and the pace of change increased, existing management practices, not to mention worker skill sets, would quickly become outdated and fail to meet the needs of the coming information economy. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” His goal today? “To

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. He said that this pushed him to continually improve and expand his skills so that he could meet patient needs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Icahn, who made that mistake at TWA back in the 1980s and early 1990s , doesn’t claim these days to know how to run the companies he targets. For a guide to some of those steps, see “ How to Outsmart Activist Investors ” in the HBR archive. )

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” Here’s how to effectively work alongside relatives. That might mean dedicating time to professional networking and enrichment groups so that you keep up with business contacts and develop new skills. He eventually headed up the company’s development business before becoming the company’s president in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. Krolick himself is a pilot, and although he does admit that his pilot skills don’t necessarily help him out in the day-to-day aspects of marketing, they do help him appreciate the challenges that exist on the front lines and cross-functionally.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Ongoing maintenance/development of metrics and reports are highly reliant on the knowledge and skills of a single individual. Numerous other StrategyDriven articles provide elaborating information on how to avoid/address many of the challenge points above including: Principle. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Health Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. physician assistants) in the ED. The data were startling.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. But if we can put more technologically advanced, evidence-based tools in the hands of skilled providers, we can turn the most expensive 15 minutes of medicine into the most successful. Cutting costs Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. He was deeply generous to colleagues, younger faculty members, students — and, yes, to editors.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In his first book, NINCOMPOOPERY: Why Your Customers Hate You-and How to Fix It , he leverages research across thousands of companies to show leaders how to find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g.,

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