Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Or consider Richard Branson, who has managed to transform a London record store into a global conglomerate with over 400 different companies in a multitude of diverse market sectors that generates $25 billion in annual revenues. If you want it, whatever it is, chances are you’ll find it in the “Everything Store.”

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

The study of mindfulness — often defined as paying attention, nonjudgmentally and on purpose — is a regular part of the creativity and wellness culture at firms around the world. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. ” Management Science 56.2 Paper presented at Academy of Management Meetings. Indra Nooyi. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison. I love how you use Tesla and Edison to drive this point home.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Sometimes, the best management is little or no management at all. ROWE (results-only work environment) has become a popular strategy too, especially in companies with predominantly younger workforces, like automotive web publisher Edmunds.com. Take "shared space" urban design, for example. It's about performance, not presence.

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Management Automotive Policies Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Authorship creates ownership and commitment, and ultimately leads to creative and impactful solutions.

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Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing." This, of course, was his way of explaining that he trusts his employees to do their jobs.

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Innovation Self-aware Automotive Trends 16

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I also find it interesting because the common hindsight narrative about Honda's success glosses over the many bumps along the way and imparts a sense of genius foresight to Honda's managers that they themselves would have rejected. Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of. What is striking is Honda's lack of planning ahead of time.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But paint is really not as simple as just paint; for example, coatings for automotive applications are very different from decorative finishes. Management wanted to break down the internal barriers, too. AkzoNobel’s experience shows that a management team can put a system in place that makes assembling such teams the norm.

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Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. Inclusive engagement is central to orchestrating co-creative engagement, involving stakeholders in the process of gaining insights and designing solutions together. for Spain's financial sector.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

We have compiled the data for the top three tiers of a particular automotive company to its third-tier and identified over 8,000 suppliers. Once we have computed initial NSI scores for all suppliers, we can use business analytics to validate the scores.

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Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. "We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Sam Walton once said, “High expectations are the key to everything.”

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half.

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Designers of product lifecycle management (PLM) systems — the computerized design tools used by engineers to design — remain object-centric and fail to enable the experiential dialogue that needs to take place between customers and designers, long before hard objects are drawn and specified. The race is on.

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Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AutoEmotive , Affectiva’s Automotive AI , and Ford are racing to get emotional car software market-ready to detect human emotions such as anger or lack of attention, and then take control over or stop the vehicle, preventing accidents or acts of road rage.

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Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

A marketing manager from the French Saint Gobain Group shared a rather extraordinary example with us: "With my team, before presenting to the Board our marketing plans, we're always very nervous. KAMs simply used to do their best to execute what their managers told them, but they didn't take initiative.

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Sports Bond Automotive Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Let nature take its course, bailout without bankruptcy, and managed bankruptcy. They each had strong arguments in their favor: The consideration for nature taking its course was that the companies had been very badly managed for many years, and people needed to take responsibility for failure. How do you trade those things off?

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Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

For instance, at one automotive company, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and non-financial metrics for the short and long term. CFOs don’t look just at the ROI of the creative process; they want to know the money is being spent wisely. Get more for the money.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Super-investor Warren Buffett’s admonition that “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact” doesn’t apply. The money, frankly, is secondary; the real issue is creativity and capability.

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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

While the popular press talks of stress as a negative to be avoided, seasoned managers know better. If you’ve been around the management block a time or two, you’ve probably also seen the other side of stress. You can divide the project among a group of people so each person has a more manageable chunk.

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Team Stress How To Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. They’re an important basis of “bottom-up innovation.”

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These data sources spanned numerous systems—like the membership program, ticketing system, online store, and mobile apps that enable fans to gain loyalty points—and wrangling the data into one platform was a key creative and technical challenge. FOX Sports: real-time fan engagement around the world.

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Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

I''ve written before about the science that helps explain why and how constraints and limits, often in the form of intelligent, well-set stretch goals, result in more creative solutions. Too often, though, managers set what appears to be a good stretch goal, only to discover that it did not produce the hoped-for innovative thinking.

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Supply Chain Productivity Products Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

There''s an incipient venture-capital and startup scene , and lots of small creative businesses. A small group of affluent, well-educated Creative Classers (and a larger number of occasional suburban visitors) has occupied an island in a sea of economic despair. The area''s pro sports teams are almost all back downtown.

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Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The team used an outside consultant with experience in automotive product design to train and coach the leader and team members in the new capability. All of the individuals were hand-picked to ensure highly divergent thinking, a desire to disrupt status quo, and comfort with ambiguity, among other core competencies.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8