Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

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? In the meantime, of course, there’s no guarantee that Tesla will be the winner in any automotive technology arms race.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. In my over five years of work with Intel, scenario planning provided extensive insights and innovations, earning recognition from top leadership as an essential strategy tool. Gurdjieff in Paris. Scenario planning exercises require the same.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. All of these efforts worked to transform Ford -- the company was restored to profitability and the brand, to preeminence.

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Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Where is leadership when we need it? “Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.” –Jan-Benedict After studying, researching, and writing so much on leadership, what is your definition? Leadership is “the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.”

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Servant Leader Leadership Styles Short-term Tactics 109

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

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Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

We built a Social Media Command Center, a high-energy, state-of-the-art engagement environment featuring dozens of wireless work stations, multiple collaboration rooms, and 18 HD monitors that display a wide variety of social feeds — all housed in a 6,200-square-foot workspace.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry.

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

They create energy, a sense of purpose, and even something of a community among people over whom they have no control. Collaboration Leadership' But making contacts is just the first, and often the least important, step in tapping experts. These groups of experts blur the distinctions between insiders and outsiders.

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CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. Real change is hard for anyone.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. Change management Execution Leadership' My research found that the majority of the efforts failed.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14