Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. Stories are so powerful because they are simple, timeless, demographic-proof, contagious, easy to remember and inspiring. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. His advice?

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Two of the five, Vala Afshar and Brad Martin , have just written a 2012 & 2013’s Must Read book, The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence. To understand the power of this book, I need to tell you a story…of how I met them. Technology can make being a social business easier, but it can’t make it happen.

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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. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. Keep the stories coming!

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CTO Engineering How To Innovation 142

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It is more accurate to define it as a new protocol or technology which powers up a new line of cryptocurrencies. CryptoNote was first described in a whitepaper written by Nicholas van Saberhagen (which is a presumed pseudonym) in October 2013. CryptoNote is not a cryptocurrency.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Meet The Woman Who Has Changed IBM’s History Harnessing the power of data analytics to transform process, people, and culture is not easy. The contribution of technology in improving customer experience is well documented, but little has been done in using it for enriching workplace experiences.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture. trillion at the time of writing.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 82

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. 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. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

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. Everett Alexander – Start up and family business coach, financial advisor and fund manager. Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Dan delves into the hard and soft skills needed for success in today’s professional world as well as what managers are seeking when deciding whom to promote. What managers look for when deciding whom to promote. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Soft skills necessary to make every impression count.

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Resources Career Advice Newsletter 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 64

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Turbulence.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If integrated and organized correctly, social collaboration technology can become a game-changer that empowers both employer and employee. Ajay Kaul, managing partner at AgreeYa Solutions , brings over 25 years of experience in sales, staffing, and IT project management for clients throughout the world. About the Author.

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Productivity Products Learning Curve Media 85

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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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. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.” Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Erica Dhawan – Bestselling author of Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence, MPA Harvard Kennedy School and MBA MIT.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Just How Powerful Are You? Big Data's Management Revolution. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Peter Bregman.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

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. Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. A successful DoD senior-acquisition program manager and test leader, Matt has earned documented success in the areas of test and evaluation, assessment, technology development and flight operations.

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Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

On the achievement side of life, my four words are: ADVISOR – DIGITAL – POWER – TIME. ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. Instant success. Content is more than king.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame is now out in all three e-book formats: iTunes , Kindle , and Nook.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Managing Yourself Make Time for the Work That Matters Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen How much time do you spend each day on the work that really matters? The knowledge workers the authors interviewed in 39 companies spent a jaw-dropping 41% of their time on those low-value pursuits.

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Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s. Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex.

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Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

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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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Power in the marketplace has shifted from seller to buyer.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Or are they?

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Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. 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. Denys Argyriou/unsplash. Distracted?

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Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The cost of sensors, processing power, and bandwidth to connect devices has dropped low enough to spur widespread deployment. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Information & technology Internet' Australia and China.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. How could I refuse?

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Watch him spin and weave a tale about the profound power that Kodak''s slide carousel could have on the world. It''s hard to argue that any computer or technology can create that kind of emotional connection or weave that kind of story. What we can''t deny is that technology is now penetrating the marketing industry like never before.

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