Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 26, 2016

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

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Automotive How To Open-book Banking 50

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 30, 2016

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

Automotive 50

Automotive How To Open-book Banking 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 18, 2016

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

Automotive 50

Automotive How To Open-book Banking 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

In John Baldoni''s new book , The Leader''s Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

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Automotive How To Open-book Banking 67

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2016

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

Automotive 50

Automotive Open-book Banking Tips 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 23, 2015

In John Baldoni's new book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

Automotive 50

Automotive Open-book Banking Tips 50

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2015

In John Baldoni''s book , The Leader''s Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?"

Automotive 50

Automotive Open-book Banking Tips 50

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

In my new book “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation ”, I outline four proven ways to generate the new strategic opportunities that will power your company’s future growth. In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. “If Indra Nooyi. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Her private sector career has spanned the information technology, architecture, strategic consulting, and automotive industries. What’s a leader to do?

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Crisis Automotive Human Resources Education 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Authority on new technology and communication. Liz Wiseman – Author of the best-selling books: Rookie Smarts and Multipliers. Author of several New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling books. Author of three books on nation building. million times.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Their new book is Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast. Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. We are living in a world that is complex, full of ambiguity and more difficult to navigate. ” -John Maeda. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 70

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). Listen to the podcast. Auto repair is basically finding root cause. If you don’t find the root cause, the problem is going to come back.

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Deming Health Care Company Management 28

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In an article titled "Where Lying Was Business as Usual," Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, has recently published an important new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth , which argues that the U.S. However, I think it’s clear that innovation since then has continued (and even accelerated) but has focused largely on information and communication technology.

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Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

My research on succession, summarized in the book The CEO Within , revealed that CEOs brought in from outside the company succeeded less often than insiders even when the company’s poor performance would seem to have justified going outside for a new leader. That is good news for the companies involved.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

In the excellent book American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company , Bryce Hoffman wrote about the lack of transparency, fractious business units, and a preoccupation with self-preservation that had come to define Ford’s culture.

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Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. If they had doggedly followed this idea, things could just as easily have turned sour and today Honda would be just a footnote in automotive history.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies). Here too, digital natives dominate.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Yet as market growth slows, the company can't attract and retain new salespeople because it's too hard to build a sufficient book of business to earn a living. In the early 1990s, Sears paid the employees of its automotive repair division a commission on the parts and services they sold to customers. . •

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Incentives Short-term Long-term Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. Because he and I have taught executive education classes together, I thought I should read his book. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). . When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival.

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

So it doesn’t surprise me that Uber’s bookings are said to have grown by more than 141% in the past year. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

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Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

And the sheer complexity of building cars also plays a role — David Cole, the former head of the Center for Automotive Research (and son of a former GM president), insists that this is really what’s behind the ignition switch error and why it was so hard for the company to get to the bottom of the problem.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

This seems to describe Musk’s view of strategy, that Tesla’s strength comes from its capacity to innovate, rather than from its assets or any particular niche in the automotive market. However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. Change leaders work across boundaries.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

” LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is the technology that helps self-driving cars “see” their surroundings. They can ultimately avoid the risk of litigation by making it clear that those hired cannot bring along technology or data which were obtained or learned from their previous employer.

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Engineering Download Technology Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It seems to be happening more and more frequently, across sectors: Automotive. When I look at these new mobility companies coming, where they're using information and communication technology, at a very high level it's long overdue and should be embraced with open arms.". All in the interests of "protecting consumers," apparently.

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Use new Disruptive Technology. When I started in political campaigns in the late 70s, the disruptive new technology was TV. It refreshed the Ford oval and made the company synonymous with new technology in the auto industry. So far, both politics and corporations are all over this one. In both the U.S.

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Politics Company Class Brand 13