Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In fact, deep lessons can be taught from aviation for most industries and companies who want to operate efficiently and effectively across organizational silos — those insidious barriers that wreak havoc on a company’s efficiency, collaboration, and, ultimately, its bottom line. logistics, and finance. Recall how the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. Bottom Line : Show me any team created of equals and I’ll show you a team that will never reach its full potential… What say you? So maybe the voice of the person with IT gifts comes through in e-mails or other means rather than taking up meeting time.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Let your daughter pick something up if she’s old enough. Here are 7 suggestions to get your wife for Christmas: Make a coupon book – A date night a week…or a month… Make up 12 random dates. A cooking class. It may be as simple as never picking up your clothes from the bathroom floor. Then wrap it up!

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Up and down, up and down, and the result of his mindless entertainment was that my seat-back tray was bouncing around like a dog in the back of a pickup truck coming home from church on a dirt road. They make it up as they go!  I did come up with a solution for us to deal with our jiggly friends.

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Politics Blog Letter Open-book 96

Chris Brady

APRIL 22, 2010

  Thebottom lip was quivering, anger and frustration were bubbling up, crying hadobviously been taking place, and the fight to maintain composure was about tobe lost.   And my son didn't lookmuch better, either! Thank you for sharing it with us and thank you for your vision. God bless you and God bless America.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognize the importance of customer service to the bottom line. Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions.

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Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Like a pyramid with the most essential elements such as food, air, water, rest and sleep at the bottom, once those needs are met the next level is safety, including shelter, security, protection, and stability. Whenever I am serving, giving, and loving, I end up feeling happy. There are many interesting theories.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Moreover, small firms are core to Americas middle class and part of the fabric of Main Streets across our country. Even though we cannot say for certain the extent to which new businesses generate middle class jobs, we do know that company founders come from the middle class themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

states have encouraged the Fraunhofer Society, a German applied-science think tank, to set up no fewer than seven institutes in America. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. True, Americans do well at inventing. In the U.S.,

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

In The Price of Inequality , Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that, at $90 billion, the combined wealth of the six Walton family heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune is equivalent to that of the entire bottom 30 percent of Americans. Her scrupulous budgeting of household expenses hasn't alleviated the pinch.

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Class Price Bottom-up Health Care 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were the born leaders we all grew up with. I meant this post to be more of a thinking exercise than a choosing-up sides and fighting till the bitter end drill.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” So, when his daughter began lining up child care and preparing to go back to work after a three-month leave, the two grandmothers offered to take two days a week each. “The bottom line increases when you make these changes.” ” Believing in Your Plan and Speaking up. Learning to Work Differently.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The resonance of Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article is testimony to how far we've come since 1987, when I began talking about work and family in my Wharton School classes. Back then, many students — men and women — flat-out resented it. We're here to learn about business, not family," they said.

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Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. If the value proposition is unclear, then you''re likely setting up the business for failure. In travel, there is always someone looking to help research it, track it, or provide services for certain areas or class of travel.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing. At a large hospitality company, for instance, the CMO can use analytics to find out not only which property or category was up or down over the weekend, but how key customer segments moved as well.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses are becoming certified for their social responsibility practices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Finally, there's the wonderful explanation for Wall Street's woes that Calvin Trillin offered up in a New York Times op-ed three years ago: Smart people started working there. Wall Street had long attracted the bottom third of the class; decent enough folks with modest ambitions. Give me a break! It's a joke. But not entirely.

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Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together. Many believe it is just these kinds of unlikely combinations that are key to coming up with breakthroughs. ” It works for a while, but eventually it catches up with them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Start at the bottom of the funnel. For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. I don’t join a gym for a specific class or workout machine. I expect my gym to provide me with a range of equipment, classes and learning opportunities to optimize my fitness.

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Business Model Long-term Short-term Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. dollars — or wait it out for another two months and hope that the ruble recovers, since that would give him a leg up on his competitors.

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Energy costs today make up an estimated 20% of the average office building’s costs. Four energy strategies can improve a bottom line and company image. Here, new technology involving the Internet of Things has opened up tremendous possibilities. We believe that this view is quickly becoming obsolete.

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Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups. According to a recent study , even when MIT-based hardware startups had access to the skills and financing needed for R&D and proof-of-concept work, they required additional capital, production capabilities, and lead customers that the U.S. simply couldn’t provide.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

In order to free up all the dry powder waiting for the right impact opportunity, the investment industry needs to help investors clearly articulate three guiding principles behind their investments: what kind of impact they want to have, how deep or broad their intended impact is, and the level of risk they are willing to accept.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. Here is my bottom line take. Coaches are trying to one up each other with a differentiated brand or approach when they might be better served looking at who they are trying to sell.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But while this notion is uncontroversial in finance, it is disruptive in health care (and education ) where we tend to exaggerate the importance of immediate costs and take a myopic view of benefits. In the 1990s, a new class of atypical antipsychotic drugs were introduced into therapy. Much has been made of the costs of these drugs.

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Health Care Short-term Insurance Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. by Thomas H.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They have been marketing masters since the beginning of the direct response and haven't let up. Work backward from there.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” It is true that this might cut into bank profits, especially during a transitional period, as you build up capital. For more on what the law does, go here.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8