Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. I interfaced with many on behalf of corporate clients.

Strategic Planning 50

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

The “conventional” workspace (drop ceilings, monochromatic cubicles and all) is being phased out in favor of connected spaces that encourage innovation and demand collaboration while still prizing individuality. Firms should optimize the most popular spaces, and reform conference room duds. Find your feng shui.

Conference 8

Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through ‘the minds of either’ Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Definition 28

Definition Licensing Newsletter Insurance 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. PL and CM: Our take on capabilities and how they work in systems is new, as is our view of coherence as this three-part balanced system that confers a measurable premium. SD : What new ideas are you bringing to the table with capabilities-driven strategy?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The reality for any creative process, from public speaking to innovation to playing the piano, is that we must be able to go from "suck to non-suck," as Ed Catmull describes the reality of Pixar's creative process, something he has observed and understood for over 30 years as the company's cofounder and president. Hello Dave!

Audience 10

Audience Committee Advice Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

With a student-faculty steering committee and 50,000 Euros of seed funding from the school's administration, they founded INDEVOR, INSEAD's social enterprise club. Over the next few years, he provided small amounts of money to seed experiments and to challenge the institution to come up with innovative approaches to address his question.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Do any of us really believe that changing the composition of a few board committees, or recruiting a few more independent directors, would have allowed HP to maintain its status as one of the most prosperous organizations ever to rise from Silicon Valley? It wasn't a gathering of hotshots eager to take on the corporate establishment.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

For example, someone comes to me persuaded that an innovative new product will sell well in Brazil, and we have not yet targeted Brazil in our strategic plan, then I say "no." I've worked closely with The Conference Board , the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy , and Students in Free Enterprise.

How To 15

How To Committee Commitment Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Training in implicit bias—particularly to members of search and hiring committees—can help address gender-based prejudice , particularly when it moves beyond recognition of bias and toward strategies to address bias when it arises. Leaders should consider: Implicit bias training.

Policies 10

Policies Leadership Mentor Career 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Key Metric: the ratio of men and women (and nationalities) on the Executive Committee is the clearest indicator of a company's openness to 21st century realities. You need to learn something about the Chinese to work with them. And you need to learn something about women to be able to work effectively with them too.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference. It might also be a juicy-sounding assignment like chairing a diversity or company culture committee. Procuring the conference room. Getting everyone on the conference line.

Management 14

Management Committee Diversity Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In his book Obliquity , British economist John Kay observes that "even among City and Wall Street traders and investment bankers, bonuses come to matter as much for the kudos they confer as the cash they generate.". Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. Shareholders. Boards of Directors. In the U.K. In the U.K.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors. Tommy had tried to make his case, but in the face of Jane's impassioned stand, the committee couldn't agree on what to do about the unprofitable customers.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles. Branding everything as "women's" (conferences, networks or programs) confirms in men's minds that this is not their issue. Problem 3: Focusing Only on Women.

Diversity 8

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

When Paul Bulcke was appointed CEO of global food giant Nestle in 2008, he put the issue of women and gender at the top of his Executive Committee's agenda. Nestle is not yet a leader in gender balancing, but they are an innovator. Until his appointment, Nestle had done very little on the topic.

Leadership Pipeline 10

Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite the hurdles, the idea of devolution, which entails conferring authority from central government to local leaders, has gained momentum, with the current government under Sunak offering “trailblazer” accords to mayors. This has created a powerful current of democratic disenchantment.”

Decentralization 59

Decentralization Budgeting System Constraint 59

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Seconds after the Representative finished talking, the former chair of the member’s committee walked in. A single conference room. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for his work on Common Sense Action. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for Common Sense Action. This former chair was from the opposite party. The setting?

Kaplan 194

Kaplan Policies Politics Chief Executive Officer 194