Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. In business, the digital transformations of IMAX and Western Union are exemplary: both companies detected profound environmental changes and turned potentially existential threats into transformative opportunities. and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. 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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Being sharp means being succinct. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Maintaining an obsession with the front line—where the company meets the customer—is fundamental to achieving sustainable growth. But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When cross-departmental rivalries get heated and conflicts arise, I’ve frequently seen companies turn to team-building events or motivational speakers who talk about trust. There were misunderstandings across the group about what one another did and sharp differences in how each subgroup defined a successfully commercialized product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Even if business leaders want to abandon the practice, it’s so firmly embedded in their operations that many think it can’t be done. Zeynep Ton of MIT has identified a “Good Jobs Strategy” that allows companies to improve frontline jobs and still keep costs down so they can compete on price.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

World-class athletes and dancers explicitly train for pain even beyond the point of injury. Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address. Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. I’m sure that I could add a lot of value if I had more business training.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Don’t use your customer team as a buffer between company and customer. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. Right now you just need someone who cares deeply about helping your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. production and operatives). However, studies dating back to Joseph Schumpeter’s coinage of the term “ creative destruction ” suggest that adjustments to technological change may be more episodic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

” To find some answers, I reflected on my coaching engagements with more than 1,500 people and interviewed 25 senior executives leading teams in Fortune 500 companies. As Priya Anant, global head of vendor operations at Google, explains, “Sometimes team members see a dead end when it’s really just a sharp turn in the road.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.). I don't underestimate any Chinese company," Wang said.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. With a knife a trained surgeon can do something that a skilled villain or even an experienced butcher could never do. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. He or she can wound with the intention of healing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. All of these were worthy, and Rheedlen's reputation and competence attracted donations - up to $10 million by 1999 - but they required a far more diverse operation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. aren’t taught management skills in medical school.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

strong opposition to the Iran nuclear deal; a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries), many companies are still looking to invest in the region. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., Since Trump was elected, Dunkin Donuts has opened its first outlet in South Africa; U.S.

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