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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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 2014. Blog Post ).

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Fast forward to November 17, 2014, when she was the featured guest on my favorite podcast, I Love Marketing. I clicked over to Amazon and ordered her book, How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits , before the end of the interview. No one operates in a vacuum. I was impressed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S They need to think of how jobs can clearly reflect team roles while still giving employees the freedom to contribute.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article In 2014, Matthew Vaughan directed the hilarious movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. Those leaders who learn how to use these tools and technology see rapid growth and great success. His first attempt to neutralize the threat was to tranquilize the ski lift operator with a dart. He had help.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says. Related Video. Go it alone.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

. “This enables managers to have more flexibility in organizing tasks and not be penalized for learning how to reallocate workloads or hours for individual talented workers,” the authors explain. ” To achieve this outcome however requires a fundamentally new approach to assigning job tasks, and indeed how to manage careers.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

How to get entry-level human resources jobs ? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment opportunities for HR managers are expected to increase by 17% between 2014 and 2024. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment opportunities for HR managers are expected to increase by 17% between 2014 and 2024.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

Appreciate their intelligence, their skill sets, what they’re doing for you, who they are, and both uphold and protect their dignity. The military taught me how to lead with respect at all times, and human nature taught me the basic understanding that people tend to respect those who respect them. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one. Whether you are a seasoned negotiator or avoid wheeling and dealing with people altogether, you will vastly improve your results and be motivated to ‘get in the game’ by knowing how to avoid these prime pitfalls.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Students ran operations. For the most part, the children had to figure out how to solve problems on their own or together. Parents were patrons. Motivation and age integration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

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. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. Energy: How ambitious the team is, and how much it takes the initiative and maintains long-term momentum at a high level.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. Highly-skilled professionals are very good at what they do, better than their managers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling. After a skills training and a 10-week paid internship, 75% of This Way Ahead graduates receive offers for positions at Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic stores.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

We all need to develop skills that don’t come naturally. And research shows that those who remain in “learning mode” ultimately develop stronger leadership skills. By tapping already high-performing leaders from other areas, these companies are making a long-term investment in those leaders and their skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

How many of us really want our familiar, comforting routines replaced with radical changes in our ingrained habits, established relationships, hard-earned skills, fundamental attitudes, and treasured beliefs? And even if we were willing to do that, how many of us would know where to start?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Moving to a new job in a new city is a surefire way to help “round out” your skills and experience, says Bidwell. ” But if you’re asked to “head up operations in Denver or Cleveland,” the calculation is a little trickier. But by 2014, her perspective had changed. She declined to move.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s what Narayana Health (NH) did in 2014 by opening a hospital in the Cayman Islands — Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) — which was close to America but outside its regulatory ambit. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Further Reading. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. This means more of us are operating in more contexts, more of the time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

New businesses are cropping up to reinvent the recruiting process, blending data from social media sites to create profiles of coders, programmers and software engineers so that companies hoping to hire can search for candidates that have the skills they desire. Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. A few key elements distinguish this era of change from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014. These ranged from commanding greater influence to building a strategic vision, aligning their team, and refining their interpersonal and communication skills. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

” Both spell out how to map the buying process and customer experience and optimally redirect the firm’s sales, marketing, operations, and service efforts. Research firms such as Forrester can assist by documenting the total costs and resources required for a firm to field a first-rate digital operation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Classic leadership lessons apply.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

In a 2014 Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey , 72% of employees over age 50 reported that they’d like to continue working in retirement. Senior executives with extensive skills and an overflowing Rolodex may be able to write their own ticket. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Career Transitions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Each person on my team had different skill sets and personalities. We called this bonding “tent time.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

” Millions of lost dollars from client defections later, FCB split from Draft and reverted back to its origins in 2014. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.” Insight Center. Equally critical?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

The optimism about Africa clouds some obvious challenges any operator in the continent will confront. Online businesses operate delivery motorbikes, which increase the cost of doing business there. Jumia is not alone; there are web firms like Konga, Olx, and Souq with millions of dollars in funding operating in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. It serves not only to clarify internal practices so employees know what to expect and how to achieve success at the company, but also as a recruiting tool.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Each group has its own operating procedures. In 2014 (the most recent data available), the BLS indicated an increase to 14.25 And companies performed the training, not schools.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

How to transform such a huge, iconic institution, wrapped in history, into a nimble player? How to provide hyper-local services tailored to the diverse needs of its patrons while also upholding a consistent and high standard of service? How to get them engaged? But would involving so many people work in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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