The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at an international climate negotiations conference. “A recent global survey asked 100,000 16- to 20-year-olds about their attitudes to climate change. Most are religion-based.

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Crisis Media Review Survey 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2020

Either way, the technology offers several benefits, such as competitive advantage, increased efficiency in day-to-day operation, and enhanced customer experience. The turnaround time for documents, such as minutes of the meeting, seminar, discussion groups, forum, conference or lectures is quicker. It also reduces paperwork.

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Competitive Advantage Seminar Webinar Conference 66

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2021

Come to work some days a week; rest operate from home as far as possible. Speaking at a Reuters’ conference, Jope said he did not expect office workers across western Europe and North America to return to work until at least April. At best, companies will be offering a hybrid culture.

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Real Estate Social Capital Fashion Teamwork 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Determine the Cost of the Operation. Provide a Report. Otherwise, schedule a conference call. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas. Nishil is a passionate writer, hungry for new innovation.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . The Beginning.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Intelligence should drive better innovation, but unless it is strategically collected and used, it functions like a summer beach novel — an engaging distraction. Thoughtful companies intertwine customer intelligence throughout the three phases that characterize most successful innovations.

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Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Unfortunately mainstream education isn’t geared to teaching people to do the hard work that goes into thinking much at all, let alone innovatively. The first is that “thought leader” isn’t something you go around saying about yourself, it’s a term conferred on you by others. RS: Why is it hard to become a thought leader?

Leadership 58

Leadership Long-term Innovation Audience 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. Getting to 1.5

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. It sends a message.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. Claim credit for your ideas.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Innovation is the number one topic on CEOs’ minds in various surveys. Many companies are creating chief innovation officers. There has been explosion in the past 10 years of conferences and popular and academic books, articles and blogs on the topic. But we see signs of change. That’s because you are! It’s not personal.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

  At a conference some years ago, I arrived customarily very early before people were gathering for the session. It is easy for a leader to be dazzled and preoccupied by statistics and reports, overlooking that most often, there are human stories and lives behind each of them. Every person is important.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Press Release Letter 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Instead, Dirk decided that it was time to bring new thinking to the wholesale distribution industry through a series of conferences and videos that he called "Unleash WD." Pick something easy such as changing a meeting or streamlining a report; or find something more challenging, such as speeding up customer response time.

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. It can even be quantified. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. No industry is immune.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. One in every few hundred was hurt, and one in every few thousand was killed by medical misadventures.

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Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather surgeons together to review particular cases and share ideas for improving their practice. Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery.

Media 8

Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. You need to make sure that your people, in your next line of the reporting structure, are absolutely top talent that can carry the agenda forward," said Tim Theriault. "I Don''t talk IT. Talk business.

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CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

When Emma Cookson, the Chairman of the New York branch of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), an award-winning ad agency, and her team concocted an innovative marketing program called Homeless Hotspots , they genuinely had no sense of the furor that they'd be facing when the project launched.

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Participative Crisis Crisis Management Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. That’s an enormous mistake. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Collaborative, productive, empowered employees will be best equipped to help companies roll out new innovations. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

While the top reason for leaving was low compensation (57% reported it), nearly as important was frustration with a lack of professional development opportunities, which half of respondents cited as their reason for departure. For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 302

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

She had dark circles under her eyes as she walked into the conference room. A lot of us operate under the assumption that "my performance speaks for itself" when it comes to managing up or out across our organizations. After all, you're reporting on their behalf. I asked her how she was doing. Choose your moments.

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Bottom-up Power Project Learning-by-Doing 14