Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Here, McBean shares the importance of leadership: Being a leader sounds like a great thing to be -- and it certainly is. But here is the rub: though the word "leadership" gets tossed around a lot, real, productive leadership is still very uncommon. Sure, leadership can be more complicated than this.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

[ I’m happy to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Kennedy —a veteran of the automotive industry and renowned automotive recruiter. As an automotive recruiter I should be laughing all the way to the bank—but this is no laughing matter. Good, talented people are asking themselves, Is this all there is?

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Note: Understanding that the point of shaping and visionary strategies is to "change the game" rather than to optimize your position in the market may be all that's needed to avoid starting with the wrong approach. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook formats at $2.99) John G.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a coexistent relationship that allows for considerable data to be generated that supporters believe drives productivity and allows organizations to find the optimum configuration of their facilities. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

That may have been the way Google started out, and search is undoubtedly still at the core of Google’s business model, but judging from the company’s diverse and rapidly widening portfolio of products, services, and interests, Page would appear to view Google much more broadly. This is the essential point.

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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. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. 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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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 September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. based companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. But where and how do you start? As with any new endeavor, we have been learning as we go.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom. Most times, those people are not techies.

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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. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

An automobile manufacturer got it right when it tried to crack the Indian market. Based on this competitive analysis, it decided to build relationships with a network of dealerships in these smaller markets. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. Choose the right trends.

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Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. 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).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

Ford’s product lineup hadn't kept up with changing consumer tastes and different regions pursued different automobile configurations which diluted the brand identity around the world. Guest post from Denise Lee Yohn: It's been 10 years since Alan Mulally pulled off what has been considered one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But in order to create and foster more such firms, we need to recognize that today’s most cutting-edge industrial players are not monolithic; they straddle the lines between manufacturing and services, and production and innovation. Despite the recent slack in the job market, signs still point to a stubborn STEM skills gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is leading a course correction (no scandal involved) after some analysts said she had taken her eye off the core product and thus should tender her resignation. Soon after becoming CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra faced revelations about extensive automotive defects and deaths attributed to them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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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 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Alan Mulally creates a “working–together” spirit at Ford Motor Company that focuses and re-energizes the automaker, reversing a decades-long slide in market share. Under Herb Kelleher’s leadership, the company became known for its sense of humor, irreverence, and focus on the employee. Southwest Airlines is the classic example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

has renewed its product lines many times. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Leadership Boards' Now it is being pressed to renew its governing board as well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Competition Leadership Retail' Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

This means advancing from simply overlaying digital functionality on existing offerings to learning the customer context via connected products and services and adapting them to meet customer needs. This exchange will result in the adaptation of products and services across organizational boundaries to meet customer needs.

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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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Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

Answer: They are the four best products I have ever purchased in my life. It was a 1996 C 220 and was the best automotive purchase I have ever made.   Third MonaVie: Skeptical at first, I quickly became a believer as I noticed significant changes in how I felt when drinking this product.  First the Kawasaki. .

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Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

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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. That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Rethink the role of partnerships in your business model.

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