Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So, why do most companies go about picking their next generation mired in the past? The truth is that companies that only choose wise, experienced people for this task of succession are mired in myopia. It is a company looking into the future like a horse with blinders. Demonstrating Technological Savvy. Think about it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

That is, it helps to believe you''re better than you are, and be more optimistic about your company and business, than an entirely objective analysis would warrant. It''s important to be aware of these blindspots because they expose you and your company to a variety of risks. Seek Out Disconfirming Data. Robert holds a Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

A key survey revealed that 59% of companies invest in outsourcing to cut down their expenses. Apart from its cost-cutting benefits, outsourcing helps companies focus on their core business. Companies are also starting to embrace cloud services to improve their outsourcing. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

So what does any of this have to do with Project Management? Projects (and Project Managers) also have many different ways to reach the end goal. As an example, I worked for three different companies that all wanted the same exact end result for their projects. The common theme from the above is with projects themselves.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. This book is for leaders at companies where digital transformation is a top-three priority,” explain authors Arun Arora , Peter Dahlstrom , Klemens Hjartar , and Florian Wunderlich.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

Creating a coaching culture – where managers intentionally grow and develop employees – isn’t necessarily about providing a warm and fuzzy place to work. While it might take time and effort to shift to a coaching culture, you’re also investing in the future of your company. Who Should Coach?

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The early emphasis on productivity in the program was a familiar theme at my work and the telecommunications business. It was technologically advancing at a very rapid rate that was in evidence every day. As I learned in the Whitepaper, the featured expert who taught the Japanese and a growing collection of American companies was W.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the 1980s, I appeared on a videotape that was widely distributed as part of a leadership development course for IBM managers. All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. They changed the company, and IBM made a remarkable comeback. Anyone could have figured this out.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today's business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

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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.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. A telecommunications company recently launched an initiative with a business customer. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. It''s C-Suite Problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers, even at the most senior levels, don’t fully appreciate the difference between announcing a major change initiative and actually making it happen. When senior leaders disappear after a big change announcement, and leave lower-level managers to execute it, they are missing in action. Consider this example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Telecommunications 66%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco is an easy company to admire. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Technology couldn't have been the issue.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Important questions, such as who “owns” personal data and what responsibilities companies have as custodians of it, are hot topics of debate. If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

We know this approach can work because we''ve seen it: We studied a large corporation that was being split into two public companies for which two new boards had to be created. The chairman wanted to create two balanced boards, with the mix of skills, knowledge, and experience each company needed.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

One major reason for the update is that analytical technology has changed dramatically over the last decade; the sections we wrote on those topics have become woefully out of date. Some technologies from a decade ago are still in broad use, and I’ll describe them here too. But we’re here to talk about technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The episode is clearly are a rare misstep by a company whose obsession for delivering outstanding product functionality is legendary. Even a company with millions of fans needs to care deeply about their opinions. In parallel, Apple has made a series of small acquisitions of online mapping companies including Placebase in the U.S.,

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Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Integration. into the core.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The art of endurance can be studied in some of the world’s oldest companies. The company has been around for over 250 years. It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection."

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Similarly, companies and cities can make better use of otherwise wasted water and energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. companies and bank accounts while living outside U.S.,

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Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. Start by gathering a critical mass of these managers. So where to begin?

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