Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. All too often, it just leaves us exhausted.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2019

The toolkit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Jeff has written case studies at Harvard Business School and INSEAD and taught leadership at Yale Law School.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 10, 2019

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 10, 2018

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. It focuses on both long-term investment and continuous improvement. It is both local and national.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2016

Case Study of Partnership Lost. Case Studies of Prospects Lost. By hearing and respecting the prospect’s status quo the seller would have created a ‘We Space’ where they both shared the same goals, and kept them speaking over time. Here is a short list of ways to alleviate this problem (and take a look at What?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

In his groundbreaking new book, Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant, David shows how any company can use the “brand relevance” strategy to achieve long-term, competitive success. Detailed with more than two dozen case studies, Brand Relevance lays out the four key tasks required to attain brand relevance: Finding New Concepts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If the people stuck at the office feel like second-class citizens who can’t ever reach the work-from-home goal, why wouldn’t they leave?”

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

. “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.” Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

OK, in Topgrading books there are case studies of companies that are named, so you can call someone to verify the improvement in hiring. HIRING MISTAKE #1: Not Acknowledging When to Replace a Low Performer Having asked 6,500 executives 15 questions (plus follow ups) about all of 10 jobs each, I’ve done 65,000 mini “case studies.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. Our region consistently far exceeded all annual quality and workload goals and led the other two Navy Medicine regions in nearly all key performance indicators. In these cases, their boss’s behaviors were impacting their emotional and physical health in very negative ways. .

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“Information overload and the pace of our digital lives have [led to short attention spans].” “When you adopt a certain [slumping] posture, you think in subordinate terms and you talk in subordinate terms, and it increases the likelihood that you’ll be seen as less authoritative,” Morgan says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Tie goals to concrete results. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

In short, companies have little idea whether they are spending too much or not enough. Three-quarters of our training is practicum, providing hands-on practice through role playing, case studies, and simulations. “Win-win” is an overused term in business, but in this case, the cliché fits neatly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability. It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. million (0.01% to 0.6% million and $39.9

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

But also be sure you understand your company’s restrictions on short- and long-term leave, and what, if any, bureaucratic hurdles exist before promising anything to your employee. Be realistic about what they can accomplish and set goals they can meet. But investigate the quality of those resources first.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But it’s one thing to set goals — network more, learn to meditate, or get better at writing — and quite another to actually accomplish them. A lot of people set personal and professional goals this time of year but very few succeed. “You need to set the right goals within the right timeframe.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It's common knowledge that helping employees set and reach goals is a critical part of every manager's job. Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism for providing ongoing and year-end feedback. So, how involved should you be in helping employees establish and achieve their goals? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

On the one hand, there is no shortage of famous case studies to illustrate radical transformations in people’s reputation (their public persona). Next, we must come up with a realistic strategy that focuses on attainable goals, such as changing a few specific behaviors (e.g., more eye contact, less shouting, more smiling, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The short answer is yes: Even when it’s clear that a company’s in trouble, there are ways to help team members stay focused, deliver results, and weather the storm. There is often a short window of opportunity to do something differently,” Edmondson says. Do : Focus people on a meaningful goal. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They vary by area of expertise, presentation technologies, design thinking, and, frankly, quality, yet there is one thing that the vast majority share – an obsession with what I would term “formal presentations.” It’s time for presenters (and authors!)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

What’s the best way to help them set realistic goals? As a manager, your goal is to keep your team engaged, productive, motivated, and happy. You have to figure out what “goals your employee has set for himself and why he wants what he wants,” she says. And how can you do it without discouraging them?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Or is it a longer-term project? ” She says the goal is for you to understand “how much your saying no is going to cost the other person” and for your counterpart to grasp the “repercussions of what he’s asking.” Case Study #1 — Provide context about why you’re saying no.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

“We tend to assume that [it] requires trying harder or outworking others, [which] may get you short-term results but [is] physiologically unsustainable.” ” To perform at your best over the long term, you need regular “opportunities for restocking your mental energy,” says Friedman.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In a recent Corporate Executive Board survey, sales executives' top terms for their marketing colleagues included "paper pushers," "academic," and perhaps worst of all, "irrelevant." Yet much of the sales support marketing provides falls short because it's focused on teaching customers about the supplier's business, not the customer's.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

In other words, leadership development begins with a real business challenge that leaders need to solve, instead of with a hypothetical case study or simulation. Using the continuous process improvement methods that were developed for the experiment, the manager is now working to reach a 30% reduction goal over a longer time frame.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Their efforts form a cautionary case study for other brands looking to jump into the “community” game. Although we’d all prefer to be as fit as our favorite athlete, it’s not our full-time job; it takes small steps over a long period of time to obtain our training goals. million Nikefuel goals reached.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our first goal was to understand how widely held the belief is that meaningful work is of monetary value. In terms of sheer quantity of work hours, organizations will see more work time put in by employees who find greater meaning in that work. The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

This will help you position your promotion request in a way that connects to broader strategic goals. ’” If you learn that you’re “not on your manager’s short list,” then “think about whether you want to stay in your organization or look for a job elsewhere.” Do some research. Be patient.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Venting isn’t an effective long-term strategy. “But there’s nothing wrong with tolerating a few complaints in the short term.” Case study#1: Proceed cautiously. I focused on our common goal of being an effective team.” Case study #2: Defuse a tense situation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Companies and global governing bodies set visionary global goals. Goals matter. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. Wall Street wakes up.

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