The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

After interviewing corporate venturing leaders during the first and second lockdowns during 2020, a number of tips emerged for surviving the pandemic. It was also recommended that communication is streamlined, with agile operations developed to allow for maximum adaptability to the changing environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

Because they are more focused on customer engagement than just on the initial purchase, they are forced to develop agility and flexibility are core cultural strengths. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people.

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Business Model Long-term KPI Loyalty 282

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

We are creatures of habit and operate much of the time on autopilot. Hess is Professor of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in -Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business and the author of Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change , which will be published by Berrett-Koehler in August, 2020.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The year 2020 is playing out like a bad dream in need of a wake-up call. If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Marti Konstant . Business development.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

That has been my mantra for 2020 and beyond – go where the intuition takes you with a sense of wonder and surrender. Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2021

He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. Developing the agility to lead in whitewater conditions, shifting away from linear development. Redefining work instead of just redesigning jobs. Leveraging the entire open talent continuum.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 24, 2021

He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. Developing the agility to lead in whitewater conditions, shifting away from linear development. Redefining work instead of just redesigning jobs. Leveraging the entire open talent continuum.

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Open-book Agility Long-term Technology 65

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. Developing the agility to lead in whitewater conditions, shifting away from linear development. Redefining work instead of just redesigning jobs. Leveraging the entire open talent continuum.

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Open-book Agility Long-term Technology 65

Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

This is where we find ourselves now in April of 2020—a true crisis. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. A crisis calls for agile leadership. He adds, “That’s a fundamentally different kind of human challenge. The Issue Front. There is no playbook.

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Crisis Uncertainty Education Crisis Management 377

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

That has been my mantra for 2020 and beyond – go where the intuition takes you with a sense of wonder and surrender. Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious.

Simon 91

Simon Workshop Storytelling Learning-by-Doing 91

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Shannon Bagley: Even in the midst of uncertainty, I was taken aback by our organization’s incredible agility and speed in decision-making. We’ve hired nearly 7,000 employees across the country since mid-March 2020. How do you approach tough decisions like cost-cutting, layoffs, etc?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Agile working, hot-desking and the gig economy were already shifting attitudes away from the limitations of that one desk mindset. In the post-pandemic era, business leaders have an opportunity to shift the office space paradigm and give consideration to how their offices can operate in a way that enables and facilitates work.

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Real Estate Absenteeism Construction Open-book 65

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. Fortune launched its Leadership Next podcast in March 2020, just on the brink of the COVID-19 pandemic. Check this out: What We’ve Learned About Leaders in 2020. INSEAD Knowledge. Leadership Next. Leading the Way.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, throughout 2020, most decisions focused on keeping everyone safe while serving members with excellence. USAA takes great pride in its leadership development programs.

Finance 59

Finance Diversity Leadership Development Maturity 59

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

How do you make a decision with only maybe 60 percent of the data or less and iterate quickly and have more agility? HR is not known for its agility historically and being able to experiment more often is challenging. . Pat Wadors has served as the Chief People Officer at Procore Technologies since November 2020.

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Diversity Construction Globalization Agility 52

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

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Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 65

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Many organizations today have a workforce that encompasses four (or even five) generations: 1996-TBD: Generation Z (aka New Silent generation, Generation 2020). Instead, consider if and how that uniqueness matters in terms of your day-to-day operations or projects. 1980-1995: Millennials (aka Generation Y). 1965-1979: Generation X.

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Tips Team Situational Leadership Diversity 66

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19. Carey Pellock, CHRO, Neustar.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

Diversity and inclusion (D&I): The social justice movement has put how companies operate, what kind of D&I initiatives they have in place and where they stand on issues of equality under the microscope. A few such changes to note: Agile work arrangements will be a permanent fixture of the workplace of the future. Down just 2.6

Finance 98

Finance Short-term Human Capital Crisis 98

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2020, our Diversity and Inclusion team and the Black Employee Network launched the Taking Action Initiative task force to explore and drive actions we could take to make meaningful change internally and externally to the company. We need to be prepared, resilient, and agile as we create our future. Gloria Chen, CHRO, Adobe.

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Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

And after 2020, we’ve all become more familiar with what that looks like. A team with high levels of trust will have the agility necessary to make decisions and react quickly to fluctuating situations. And the more trust increases, the more smoothly and quickly your operation can run. Maintain agility.

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Crisis Agility How To Benchmarking 315

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dr Paulina Chan, chairperson of CMI Hong Kong, then presented her Report of the Chair and reviewed the broad portfolio of activities achieved in the year 2020–2021 under the theme of ‘Reaching Local, Bridging Global’. The meeting opened with a welcome message from Dr Ann Francke OBE, chief executive of CMI.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Discipline and Focus. Connectivity.

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Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Recently, the Wharton Future of Advertising Program asked more than 175 industry leaders to describe their vision of what advertising would be like in the year 2020. For messages to be heard in 2020, brands will need to create an enormous amount of useful, appealing, and timely content. The traditional campaign model is rigid.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Content Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

As such we struggle with the tension between the desire to boost innovation and the need to operate under increasing regulation. This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs. Optimization vs. Rationalization.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

And this avalanche of data will only increase, since the number of computing devices the Armed Services have in play is expected to double by 2020. The defense industry would also do well to learn from the rapid development processes that have made the technology sector so agile operationally.

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Technology Analysis Health Care Industry 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

2020 has tested us. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. David Marquet (Portfolio, 2020) In his last book, Turn the Ship Around! It has illuminated our strengths and exposed our vulnerabilities. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

At the McKinsey Global Institute, we modeled these trends and found that peak demand for major commodities like oil, thermal coal, and iron ore is in sight and may occur as soon as 2020 for coal and 2025 for oil. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

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