Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2013

Yet, in spite of the fact that being forward-looking is the quality that most separates leaders from individual contributors, it’s something that too few fully appreciate, and too many devote almost no time to developing. And how does a new leader develop the capacity to be forward-looking?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Authority on new technology and communication. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., Use technology to identify and address barriers. All of the RFID tags are “passive technology,” meaning that the individual tags don’t need power. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. The most common organizational solution is the cross-functional team: a committee of people drawn from the relevant departments to solve particular problems. Add to Cart.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

This ensures that organizations can stay up-to-date with the latest HR best practices and technologies. Training and Development HRIS systems provide training features to equip employees with the necessary information and track their progress. The benefits of HRIS in this realm are considerable. What is an HRIS?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. At the same time, they are effectively containing financial reporting and compliance risks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. News & World Report as the nation’s best rehabilitation hospital. Clear roles. A culture of shared values.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Regardless of their position power, strong leaders develop their persuasion power. ” As Geoffrey Bellman writes in his book, Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge, “You may be thinking, ‘But someday I will be in charge of the committee (or agency or division or team) and I will change things! .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

The deal will result in transfer of most, if not all, of GE's advanced avionics technology to the joint venture with the strong possibility that it will also find its way to Avic and/or others in China outside the joint venture as other technologies have been doing in similar cases in other industries. But can Immelt say that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Considering the sponsors, it's sort of like the Army reporting that what we really need is more battleships. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports.

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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. And, as a result, we are now able to identify three key reasons why it has been so effective. It is both local and national.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? But the most common cause of death they reported? Too often, I hear about quarterly meetings of innovation review committees. Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. Many leaders turn to their direct reports for guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Another way to raise your profile with your boss’s boss is by volunteering for a cross-functional committee — preferably one run by him. You’ll increase your exposure to other parts of the company, expand your network, and “develop a personal reputation that’s not tied to your boss.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful. We wanted to learn more.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Apollo Technical reports that 39 percent of those considering job changes are motivated by higher salaries. With such stats to back up these reports, it is evident that companies need to do more to safeguard the interests of their employees and build conscious pay systems that benefit them as well. percent of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. They stem in confusing and challenging forms from significant geopolitical developments: e.g. populism, nativism and protectionism in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Read the article in Washington's Observer Reporter). Large scale sustainable bamboo projects, like homes and eco-developments, serve as carbon sinks, and have a zero or less than zero carbon footprint.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The figure at the end of this article gives an idea of what companies might report as a start. Together, we can develop a tool kit that tech companies can use to create a more dynamic and inclusive industry. Yelp will be involved, and we hope other companies will, too.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

For example, in one study , American employees reported spending 2.8 Further, 25 percent of employees said that avoiding conflict led to sickness or absence from work, and nearly 10 percent reported that workplace conflict led to project failure. Organizational Development Book. Adapted from. Tanya Menon Leigh Thompson.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. I first took my organizational ideas to my direct reports and incorporated their feedback. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. Typically for an internal consulting group, we had to grow gradually as we demonstrated the quality of our work. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

But when you have a direct report whose ambition and desire are greater than his ability or experience, managing expectations isn’t easy. Of course, the best way to manage your direct reports’ expectations is preemptively. A hungry, driven employee is every manager’s dream. Set clearer expectations when you hire.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Silicon Valley was abuzz with reports that Google had granted across-the-board raises of 10 percent to all 23,000 or so of its employees — a bracing reminder of just how much money Google makes, and of its willingness to share the spoils of success with its people. But companies work by different rules.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. More than 50 large companies have joined RE100 , a group committing to use 100% renewable power (disclosure: I’m on the RE100 steering committee). And we’ve seen a lot of them this year.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

But Ken knew he couldn’t just go to the executive committee asking for more money to staff up. The committee would insist that he first try making his crews more efficient. The message I take away from Kentaro-san’s report is the importance of managers. Mayuka Mori, the COO, jumped in.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Map Patient Pathways and Clinic Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Now is the time for directors and executive committees alike to re-balance the strategy-governance scale. It’s not surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But as the Big Blue engineers discovered three decades ago, this technology is not passive; it instead actively changes what we mean by “real work.” It instead just emerged as an instinctual reaction to a disruptive new technology. The high cost of cheap messages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Jim, a brilliant professor of engineering, came on as the new Chief Knowledge Officer and John, an experienced petroleum executive identified by a major shareholder, became Vice President of Technology, Products, and Services. She then asked each member of the executive committee to draw a self-portrait, a picture of how they saw themselves.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 17, 2019

Recently Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Jo Swinson urged parliament to ensure that any development of AI is done with ethics front and center. Whilst the potential issues surrounding AI are perhaps well known, the report provides a number of operationalisable measures to counteract them.

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