Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? I also prepare our C-suite executives with stories and statistics so they can promote innovation through the ranks and out to the rest of the world through speeches, media exposure, and conferences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

But while we may experience an array of emotions at work, there’s a general consensus that we shouldn’t see anyone reduced to tears, hopelessness, or defeat on the job. Find a safe but private place, such as an unoccupied conference room or office where you can speak quietly. Here’s how: First, listen.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

A conference room will probably work best. Make sure your equipment allows everyone to hear, participate, or see people in the room (if using video conference). Send any reports, pre-reading, or requests for materials that may require preparation from participants. Choose a small room and set the chairs up in a circle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Even more seem to have run out of ideas, or simply appear unable to craft the necessary consensus to lead. Perhaps it's really not so ironic that there would be this inverse relationship: the deeper we sink into leadership crisis, the more it shows up on the agendas of think tanks and conferences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

There's a pervasive feeling of being "a square peg in a round hole," as one manager puts it, with 48% reporting that conforming to prevailing leadership models is a problem. Furthermore, as American-based multinationals extend their reach in China and India, the cultural fluency of their Asian employees can confer a critical competitive edge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

Though exact numbers are hard to come by, there’s a clear consensus that following the economic shocks of 2008, advances paid to writers are declining —in some cases precipitously. Most of us get weekly Nielsen BookScan reports—courtesy of Amazon—and sales figures every six months from our publisher.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 per share by nearly a dime. That does not mean that they do not require investment. You have to be willing to fail.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy chaired a subsequent "customer rationalization meeting," which he hoped would yield a similar consensus: that Egan should sever ties with its loss-making customers — especially the least profitable 1%, among them Westmid, whose accumulated losses cost Egan 40% of the company's profits. Yes, the conference. Jane prompted.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I go to a lot of health care conferences and of late there’s a seemingly obligatory slide that crops up in nearly every PowerPoint. ” This is health care’s “ Triple Aim ” and it is definitely trending. And, as consumerism explodes in health care, the reality is that patients tend to assume quality.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Back in 1968, Ed Muskie, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, may have lost the election when he allegedly broke down in tears in front of reporters while defending attacks made on his wife. While there are no clear, consensus management rules to fall back to, there are a few things that may be helpful to know: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

The struggle to reach consensus in Washington over spending, taxes, debt limits, and other issues is a case in point on how the absence of relationships constrains compromise. In fact I've been in a number of senior management conferences in the past few years in which top-50 managers are meeting each other for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Last fall, I paid a visit to the Creative Class island within depressed Detroit for the Techonomy Detroit conference at Wayne State University, and I can attest that people there are well aware that urban rebirth will take a lot more than a few downtown restaurant openings. I can also attest that they don''t really know what it will take.

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