Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. You can have best in class versions of the other four themes (processes, technology, ecosystems, and strategy), and you will achieve underwhelming results at best without a great team. You miss a few weeks of news and everything changes.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 101

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. So I’m thinking most of you are from a class, what class is it again Steve?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. So I’m thinking most of you are from a class, what class is it again Steve?

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. Because leadership requires sharing your vision, forging relationships built on trust, and convincing others that your ideas have merit. Offer leadership development programs. But are they effective communicators?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Sounds like an experience I have at the beginning of almost every grad class I’ve taken. When I’ve taken college classes, I’ve always attended with the stance of being a learner who knew little of the content. That believe make me to take classes even after several years of graduation. Thanks for that.

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Resistance Class Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 193

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. “Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.” It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

BTW – I am teaching a Professional Development class for University at Buffalo School of Social Work in Solution-Focused Leadership. The class is full, but don’t worry, if you are interested contact me and let’s talk about brining the content and lessons to your organization, team and people.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” Our “I don’t know” sent members of our class and faculty to Tougaloo Mississippi searching for silenced voices. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. When we asked “What was Brown’s relationship to slavery?”

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” Our “I don’t know” sent members of our class and faculty to Tougaloo Mississippi searching for silenced voices. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. When we asked “What was Brown’s relationship to slavery?”

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product. Patrick, Mom’s are so full of leadership wisdom. Yours seemed to have it right.

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Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. Keep the low-cost strategy but seek alternative ways for supporting it.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Is it possible to raise a family, find time to regularly meditate, exercise, eat healthy, read, and take classes while working a full time high pressure job? So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. Take an art or yoga class. Attend a retreat. Serve on a local nonprofit board.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

While listening to 1 of ur awesome LLR leadership cds yesterday, we were eagerly awaiting our Emv/autoship delivery~ 1 of our 4 yr old twins asked, "Is Chris Brady going 2 bring our emv here yet? It's what we know that just isn't so that holds us back the most. Be willing to do well what most people won't do at all.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. The same holds for great leadership skills. About the Author. Schiemann, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

The resurrection of this vision conveyed to everyone inside the company and out that Ford was back in the business of “serving all around the world a complete family of cars that are best-in-class,” Mulally explained. But more than that, it shows how leaders set the tone and pace of cultural transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The result is underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, all of which could be — but aren’t, Stiglitz says — engines of future American prosperity. While there has been some rebounding in the last 18 months, the collective wealth of the middle class has essentially been bumped back to the early 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The CTFs were hosted on our open-sourced platform, and the challenges were designed by a cross-functional team of security engineers each with a specialized skill set (mobile application security, Windows security, and so on) to ensure a well-rounded CTF experience. Hacktober isn’t just about “cyber” security.

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Workshop Education Brand Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

These advisers are assisting customers seven days a week, averaging 16 operational hours per day, adding up to an average of more than 6,000 monthly interactions on both an in-market pre-sale and customer care basis. The CoE elevated the issue to the engineering leads. Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It is obvious enough that if you want to push the frontiers of machine learning, you need a few world-class data scientists. Leadership must realize that earning even a fraction of the value data offer takes more than simply bolting an AI program into one department or asking IT to digitize operations. Start with talent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35. “It has given me such a depth of awareness about how devices operate and what they are capable of,” he said. What should a leader do?

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Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Too many tenured professors have never worked outside academia; they are familiar with neither the day-to-day operations of companies nor the intricate processes of how decisions are made. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. World-Class Challenging/Challenged Autonomous Employee. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Our data show that MBA students are flocking to classes to learn the art of social entrepreneurship. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

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