Six Disciplines
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Porter, director of Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Porter's insights on strategy and execution? Managers need to develop a clear strategy around their company's unique place in the market (and not worry as much about creating strategy to compete head-on with other companies.).
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 17, 2014
.” – Michael Porter. Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership shares How to be a More Strategic Manager to find out how. But that strategy is dead letter unless you put it into action with projects. While we love our “bottom line” tangible measures of results, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.
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The Practical Leader
MARCH 29, 2023
These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. A similar study by The Economist Intelligence Unit of 343 business found “the firms that ‘slowed down to speed up’ improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating profits over a three-year period.”
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 24, 2013
But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Harvard Business Review was launched precisely 90 years ago this month with an ambitious agenda — to produce a "business theory," based on rigorous research, to help managers run their companies more effectively. We judge our success in part by the bottom line — on our circulation, our newsstand sales, our advertising dollars.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2012
And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. As if it weren't enough that our polarized Congress nearly blew up the national economy several times last year, this year they're throwing employers right into the middle of a national debate about prescription birth control. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 19, 2015
Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. The underlings in this equation have little control; overwork cascades from the top of the organizational pyramid to the bottom. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.
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