The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

On the way to the church I was on a conference call with a client because the call “couldn’t be rescheduled”. I was able to travel to some amazing places and do business in so many developing nations. I don’t operate that way. As a pro athlete there are a lot of choices that we make to further our development.

Training 70

Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

Maturity 8

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In much of Africa, political growth remains as stunted as economic development. Political maturity — in the sense of a robust enough democracy for elections to result in actual power change — for the most part only works in countries like Ghana, where economic development is already advanced and broad-based.

Politics 8

Politics Long-term Budgeting Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Second, data confers insight and advantage. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable. To get to a future state of mature analytical competency, there’s real work to be done in integrating the data you have already.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. Technology investments work the same way.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. And no sector is complete without its own conference. Risk-taking, they say, must be rewarded, even when it does not succeed.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. Management titles allow us to mark our growth, and our maturity.

Management 9

Management Career Creativity Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But, as the venture matures, and they continue to close a few big annual deals, they can limit growth since the SaaS model requires higher volumes. Generally, customer education and applications development are often key tasks in early stages. Subsequent stages again depend on buyer behavior and strategy.

CRM 8

CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9