Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Within the list of favorites you'll find titles published decades ago and ones published last month. Then, select one or more for your summer reading list.

Books 92

Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. by Hank Moore. Maquiladoras.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Here is the list of all 235 books, in alphabetical order. Top Books About Leadership.

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Within the list of favorites you'll find titles published decades ago and ones published last month. Then, select one or more for your summer reading list.

Books 58

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I learned this from working with senior executives at one of the world’s largest high-tech engineering companies recently, who were concerned that many of their big customer programs were over budget and behind schedule. As a result, we still need the Work-Out process to improve cross-boundary collaboration.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. Consensus comes quickly, and only later, when we fail and wonder why, do we realize that the easy agreements and shared conclusions doomed us from the start. I remember working on an innovation project with a group of engineers. We've all been on these teams.

Diversity 14

Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.”

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Or perhaps it is difficult to really tell how well a company's innovation engine is functioning — so magazine editors are susceptible to the latest hot product or service. Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

Health Care 8

Health Care Technology System Library 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. The result is PG&E''s PowerPathway program which has already graduated hundreds of new workers with skills that span from linemen to advanced power engineering. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The changes that India struggled to cope with, such as slowing domestic growth, increasing globalization, and an uncertain political and regulatory environment, describe global markets today. Even large domestic firms were far behind their global counterparts in funding, innovation, and access to markets.

Globalization 14

Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. The voice grew in clarity and volume.

CEO 15

CEO Engineering Consensus Review 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

When Alan Greenspan , Paul Krugman , and Niall Ferguson all agree on something, it’s a sign that the consensus is either very right — or very wrong. There was no UK strategy to enable Scotland to develop alternative engines of growth, as other small advanced economies were able to do. But neither is this the full story.

Consensus 8

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. In the six years since the iPhone was introduced Nokia lost about 90% of its market value. All too few.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. In the six years since the iPhone was introduced Nokia lost about 90% of its market value. All too few.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Frank had joined a highly-collegial firm that valued collaboration and consensus decision making, and his new peers described him as arrogant and unwilling to learn how the company did things before rushing to try to sell his plans to senior management. The official reason was that he wasn't a cultural fit.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. Studying the book market then led Bezos to locate his company near some of the major book distributors.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Or perhaps it is difficult to really tell how well a company's innovation engine is functioning — so magazine editors are susceptible to the latest hot product or service. Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. This is what I've observed at HP.

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Financial economics adopted its own, narrower paradigm, in which the starting point was that the prices prevailing on financial markets were more or less correct (a belief that in those days went under the name Efficient Market Hypothesis, although the EMH is for the most part understood to mean something much narrower now).

Cooper 8

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". The key question for global brands is, "How can marketers pull it off consistently?". It''s not easy to do, however.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Advertising Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., Your book argues that they're wrong.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. Think like engineers and customers. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.” So there is something about needing to keep all 500 partners happy which brings a level of politics, which you wouldn’t get if we were an engineering company or a pharmaceuticals company.”.

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

This delightful tour through the history and marketing of the “amber restorative” is a blueprint for how to use our aspirational desires to sell us lots and lots of stuff — all over the world. "I came in one day and there were clowns that were passing out balloons," said the current Zynga principal engineer.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

When asked how challenging it is to source analytical skills, there was unanimous consensus that finding this talent represents a challenge. Statisticians, database marketers, and PhD quantitative analysts have long been a staple of sophisticated marketing organizations and have played critical roles in financial engineering.

Survey 8

Survey Consensus Report Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In 2012, Barrick Gold founder and chair Peter Munk stressed that in today’s environment, “The single most critical factor in growing a mining company is a social consensus — a license to mine.” New research is pointing in the same direction.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

.” Studying manufacturers that were releasing successful innovations far faster than competitors, the authors identified a team-oriented approach that changed the design and development process for products such as copiers at Fuji-Xerox, automobile engines at Honda, and cameras at Canon.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8