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. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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.”

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

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.

Scenario Planning 12

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 12

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."

Waterman 55

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

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).

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. The development of those tools—we call them engagement platforms—represents a major opportunity for product companies and technology developers.

Engineering 13

Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 13

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. Instead Honda stayed open and entrepreneurial.

Strategy 14

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. 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.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. Toyota wasn't just looking for superior quality and just-in-time inventory management from suppliers, they were vested in helping suppliers become more innovative and creative. We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. 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. Yes, there could be thousands of these nexus suppliers, but we now have the computing power to identify how critical each is.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

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. What does it mean for users if personal assistants are hooked up to advertisers?

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

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. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 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.”

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

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. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. federal research in the 1990s largely established the feasibility of the technology, U.S.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

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. It’s exactly the kind of stress you want, because it counteracts the powerful inertia of habit.

Team 11

Team Stress How To Automotive 11

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. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. 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. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

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. Prototyping care models requires quick access to care locations, medical supplies, IT systems, new medical devices and technology, patients, and time with different providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8