Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process. For more information please visit [link] and Amazon.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

And when he found that the system was buying ads for audiences that didn’t fit the company’s customer profile, he stormed in to his boss’s office and yelled, “I don’t want men and women over 55 buying our product! It’s not our audience!” The vendor scrambled to give him the controls he wanted.

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That’s why the stories in this series remain timeless – it’s not about the technology, but about the characters and how they challenged one another to be more than the sum of their respective skill sets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. Don’t destroy the one named Kirk.”

Leadership 100

Leadership Franchising Learning-by-Doing Uncertainty 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Against the technological backdrop described above, it’s more important than ever that the modern knowledge worker makes good business decisions based on good information: factual, unbiased, broad-based. Of course, resistance to algorithms is difficult because we’re up against a sophisticated, secret system.

How To 12

How To Ethics Media Content 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It must help people grasp how their personal histories and aspirations, and the dynamics of groups and social systems, will affect how they are embraced or resisted as leaders.”. The most interesting nugget of wisdom, at least for this writer, is that it takes more than an idea to win over an audience. TAKE IT FOR A SPIN.

Audience 8

Audience Insurance Proposal Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google wanted to apply its core contextual advertising business to the video-sharing site''s surging audience. On the other hand, Tumblr''s audience is active, growing, and young. should apply its expertise and resources to monetize Tumblr''s audience just as Google did with YouTube. So it''s not really not possible for Yahoo!

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2021

It simply means that you may have to tweak the wording or names of your products to suit the new audience. Noone can resist a discount! For example, if you’re a smart home technology distributor , you could approach events organisers with the intent of letting them use your technology at their events. Be creative!

Brand 87

Brand Discount Marketing Planning 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Technical and technology skills. The third most frequently cited requirement for C-level executives was technical skills—specifically, deep familiarity with the particular body of knowledge under their auspices, such as law, financials, or technology. Many respondents stressed technology skills and technical literacy. “A

Skills 8

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This different story about the computer industry softened resistance to cutting back on hardware (and eventually selling the PC business) and provided the underpinnings for a shift to services, data analytics, and the smarter planet brand campaign. Individuals can also change the public narrative.

Constraint 15

Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This different story about the computer industry softened resistance to cutting back on hardware (and eventually selling the PC business) and provided the underpinnings for a shift to services, data analytics, and the smarter planet brand campaign. Individuals can also change the public narrative.

Constraint 14

Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The newspaper industry is a good example of just how difficult it can be to thrive when business goes digital, especially if that business is chronically resistant to change. The technology is there. Customers are asked to justify the prices paid by indicating their reasons. Firms respond with counterarguments. Reputation.

Price 8

Price Content Reputation Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition. Government Technology'

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. Scholars who have benefited from the way scholarly impact is traditionally assessed (by counting only or primarily “A” journal publications) may resist seeing scholarship assessed more pluralistically.

Metrics 9

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. ” We have known they do since they were introduced among British miners whose industry had been disrupted by new technology. Why was he doing it?

Management 8

Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Some people mistakenly believe that technology creates the future, or they are willing to abdicate control of their own destinies to outside forces.

Transportation 75

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 75

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

And I like to share that because I really had no plan and no idea that I was building a platform, but I was one of maybe three or four folks in my niche which was high growth, women’s entrepreneurship focused in the technology arena. It’s selecting the audience. So “O” is all about overcoming resistance.

Open-book 74

Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. We don't usually think of consumers as a threat to our business.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Operational excellence is a competitive requirement for any organization, and digital leaders have a key role in applying new technologies to achieve it. Provide technologically enabled offerings while focusing on value, not technology. Consequently, digital leaders must develop a deep technology understanding.

Leadership 8

Leadership Long-term Agility Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off. An online magazine focused on serious ideas, Nerve built a loyal audience but its sex-centric brand turned off advertisers. Resist instincts to kill. Related Video. A lesson for both startups and incumbents.

Consensus 9

Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

If you cringe like I do at the memory of joining Second Life, you know how hard it is to resist the siren song of the Cool New Social Web Thing. To achieve that kind of alignment, you have to go beyond the aggregated stats on visits and users that any trending platform produces to dazzle its potential business audience.

Early Adopters 13

Early Adopters Metrics Media ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? When I said that, the entire audience burst into applause. So the message didn’t come from me, the message came from that response of the audience ? The resistance is actually wasted time. and whoever was doing it stopped doing it.

Creativity 8

Creativity Film Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business. Speeches are much more interesting for the audience when they dispense with the polite nothings and get right to the meat. That world has changed. The rules have changed. Of course not. Therefore, nothing is being said.

CEO 14

CEO Politics Charisma Reference 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In the era of multimedia politics, leadership is commonly downgraded to just another form of entertainment and charisma is indispensable for keeping the audience engaged. In fact, there are big reasons for resisting charisma: 1. Technology and science have enabled us to systematize many serendipitous practices (e.g.,

Charisma 9

Charisma Politics Short-term Long-term 9