Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Subjective expectations: We enter into each conversation with expectations or goals (conscious or unconscious) of what we want from a conversation, thereby limiting outcomes to those within our set of expectations making it difficult to achieve all that’s possible. I’ve developed them. The Skills of Change. Consider leaving a comment!

Skills 50

Skills Resistance Self-aware System 50

Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2017

It was cold morning in early December 2016; almost exactly sixty-one years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man boarding the Montgomery city bus near the exact same bus stop. The Supreme Court overturned the law and a powerful bridge began to be constructed between the races. Focus on a Higher Purpose.

Construction 290

Construction Follow-up Commitment Efficiency 290

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Our lives are full of multiple interdependent decisions as we try to navigate complex interactions with multiple competing goals. Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Based on what we’ve learned, here are some tips that can help recruiters and hiring managers alike better understand the contractor mindset and develop strategies to integrate them into their workforce. Tailor your messaging to speak to their career goals. Be open to industry transfers and a range of experience levels.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Health Care Analysis Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. I’ll be tracking them here.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). continuing to rely almost entirely on private investment.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

IBM’s recently-announced Project Debater is a case in point: it showed just how far AI has come in terms of constructing and articulating a point of view, but equally how much better humans are at balancing different points of view. For example, in 2016 a distributed autonomous organization (DAO) was launched on Ethereum.

Company 10

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a neat metaphor, “Risky Business” calculates that there’s a 1 in 20 chance — equal to the chances of “an American developing colon cancer” — that more than $730 billion of coastal assets will be at high risk in the coming years. Ten states have already hit the goal.) It’s not just the U.S. —

Crisis 8

Crisis Report Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

A second difficult political balance involves using infrastructure spending to create temporary blue-collar jobs, boost construction-company profits, or stimulate the manufacturing of construction equipment. China, for instance, has three “policy banks” with explicit instructions to support national goals.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8