Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Unlocking Energy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

While organizations are focused on closing the financial literacy gap, there is significant amount of work to be done to achieve true progress. The short answer is, that managers, from C-level executives to supervisors, who are financially literate appear poised to make a greater contribution to the organization’s overall profitability.

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. In their race to become faster and smarter with automation, these organizations do little more than digitally enable the status quo. For most companies, however, benefits at this scale are elusive.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The theory describes, for example, how organizations may double their investments (in terms of money and management effort) but that does not mean they get something twice as much or twice as quickly. ” Building an organization and amassing a competitive advantage work much the same way. But that is not how organizations work.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Glenn Tilton, former CEO of Texaco and United Airlines and director of Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie, and Phillips 66, well captured the point.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. Is the balance right in your organization? We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Of course, every organization needs professional managers, and many of the great value-creation stories of business can be traced to their efforts. ” At Google, it would be “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” I recognize this sounds harsh; it is. And there is joy.

CEO 8

CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. We cannot fool them.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

What happens if next time it’s not a near-miss , but a direct hit of a commercial airliner by a Russian plane that turns its transponder off? The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Plus, it’s well understood by industrial organization economists that many markets are naturally rather concentrated. But antitrust does not punish firms for being successful even if they become dominant. Sometimes one firm is very successful and obtains a dominant position in the market.

Policies 8

Policies Airlines Politics Proposal 8