Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Effective leadership, like a good marriage, hinges on how you deal with the tough stuff. Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. Doing Less, Leading More.

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Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Take Cisco, for example.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

They are incredulous that an immensely successful company, in which many have invested their entire working lives, could have engaged in such large scale, systemic deceit. There are complex social, political, and technological reasons for this dramatic change. So why aren’t all companies more open in their communication?

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Parcell Public Relations Reputation Information 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Amazon was the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever. It is one of most successful companies in the world. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 89

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. JF: But shouldn't executives be running their companies, not dealing with investors all the time? Why's that?

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. Damian Vaughn, head of programs at BetterUp, a San Francisco–based company that connects employees with executive-level coaching, believes that being good at sales means that you understand both the “political and personal element” behind every buying decision.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But the CEO who took first place this year was singled out for what seems to be an entirely new and noteworthy type of leadership. Our bet is based on the fact that many companies in many industries are facing pivotal moments that absolutely demand a 2-in-1 mindset. It became the most successful product launch in the company's history.

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11