Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

Outperform their peers in several ways, including diversity hires and retention of top performers. While it might take time and effort to shift to a coaching culture, you’re also investing in the future of your company. They might determine their goals can’t be met within the bounds of your company.

Short-term 64

Short-term Long-term Telecommunications Webinar 64

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Resistance 56

Resistance Download eBook Newsletter 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. Are you and your company ready?

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Though companies can easily manipulate the proportion of directors with domain expertise when building a board or appointing new directors, we know virtually nothing about its effects on corporate performance. .” That is, the percentage of directors whose primary professional experience is within a firm’s industry.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Project 56

Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”? since the index was first developed in 2008. and 8%, respectively.

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. Companies in these industries are responding in surprising ways. Several factors have helped accelerate the move to integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Attuned to the times, he or she has a stronger chance to uncover and release a company’s latent potential.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

CenturyLink is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, serving both small and large businesses nationwide. The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect. Insight Center.

Marketing 8

Marketing Tools Follow-up Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

For the vast majority of American companies, doing business with Cuba remains illegal. The economic embargo still stands (though companies such as Caterpillar and Colgate-Palmolive have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for an opening of Cuba). That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes. This is why U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. Deere & Company developed a small tractor, the 35-horsepower Krish, built and priced specifically for the India market, competing head on with the Indian market leader, Mahindra & Mahindra.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Greenberg , Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies headquartered in New York, presided over a firm of 58,000 people worldwide. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. In 2001, Jeffery W. 1,127 of them worked in the World Trade Centre, some in Tower One and others in Tower Two.

Performance Review 43

Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

This was especially daunting during periods of change or growth in which companies needed to hire in large numbers. ” Once companies hired new talent, new challenges arose, such as how these employees represented the company. ” Some CEOs worried about setting direction and tone for the company across regions.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.” Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real. They employ 12.3 Yet, there is a problem.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In India, loosened business regulations and restrictions on foreign investment and imports, along with reductions in bureaucracy spurred a boom in economic activity, including a major expansion of the telecommunications industry and space program and the birth of the software and information technology sector.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Because "good enough" is not good enough, we were interested to learn what percentage of directors "strongly agreed" their companies were doing an effective job on each of these practices--in other words, a great job. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Deming Institute

MARCH 10, 2016

Knowledge is what differentiates successful companies from the ones that are not. It was fascinating to read some of the letters Deming would write to Noriaki Kano, or to Ford’s CEO Donald Petersen, and a bit of his work at various other companies. Edwards Deming used to say “Knowledge is the key.

Deming 28

Deming Library Tips Telecommunications 28

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. The leaders of these companies aren’t ‘managing the store’; they’re building new stores. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. Read the company’s mission/vision statement.

CEO 170

CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. There are over two thousand consumer-focused subscription businesses capitalizing upon customers’ diverse tastes.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The International Telecommunications Union reports that the proportion of women using the internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men; this gender gap widens to 32.9% In developing countries, those differences are even greater. But the gender gap problem doesn’t stop there. in the least developed countries.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company. We also found that industry matters.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8