Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. The trick is to be focused.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

For the last six years, we have worked with a group of top marketing executives and business leaders in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area from companies large and small. Porter and Kramer emphasized the external market opportunity of creating social impact. Each year we assess the issues that are most top-of-mind.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Typically, they are resolutely committed to the overarching goal, while remaining adaptable on the means to reach it. This is our tendency to see the world through the distorting lens of our professional experience – as engineers, as accountants, lawyers, teachers or whatever. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

We talk about "reinventing your brand" when in reality the goal is to reinvent what you work on. We are told by marketing gurus that " everyone now owns a media company! We are told by marketing gurus that " everyone now owns a media company! " — as if somehow this is, itself, the goal — rather than a means to an end.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

Midway through graduate school, while employed through the summer months in an engineering position, I joined fellow interns in an after-hours outing at a local pub. Post by Bill Bellows. With our internships coming to an end, we invited our department manager to join us. co-workers).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Where are the markets with opportunities?

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

But today, as a multinational construction materials company, our goals are somewhat broader: How can we help provide housing for people all over the world who need it? The estimated shortage of over 25 million dwelling units demands solutions for rapid and economical construction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. But what are the goals of these corporate coworking spaces? This is unsurprising given their goal of smuggling the benefits of coworking inside.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Learn all you can. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

This is more than just a smart marketing campaign. Training programs that encourage the use of robots to achieve goals – not just by playing with them, but by building them — encourage participants to use their creativity and natural curiosity to overcome problems through hands-on experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

The partners act almost as a single firm, sharing knowledge about wine making and markets. So it was very difficult to get five companies to work towards the same long-term goals. We are not talking about conquering a new geographical market or investing millions of dollars in joint R&D. Here’s another example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. In recent years, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

The reinvention of NASA has been an evolution spanning three phases, each focused on achieving different goals and characterized by particular technology strategies, cultural values, and ways of working with external parties. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications. Adapting to change.

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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 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

The company could not eradicate the skills and processes that continued to power its core performance engine but, at the same time, it had to enable embryonic growth ideas to forget the orthodoxies of the core. IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) process provides cover for experimental business units targeting embryonic markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Its purpose was to enhance people’s lives through great engineering that offered everyone an accessible, high-quality car. The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. Then, in 2007, something changed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Which is exactly the kind of business that Jeff Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon over the past decade. Now here are two cutting-edge companies operating in often-fickle markets, and they’re cash machines. In Amazon’s case, all this cash is being used to finance the company’s continued explosive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

home marketers (Fox, HBO), cable and satellite services (Comcast, DirectTV), video syndicators (PMI, TVS), film libraries and archives (Eastman House, Getty Images), and talent agencies (WME, CAA, ICM), each with its own contracts and accounting systems. The same is true in music, too.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The executive orders he has signed in his first two weeks in office (and the manner in which those orders have been issued) already undermine that goal. This week a European technology business I’ve invested in was due to come to San Francisco, where I live, to launch its first product targeted at the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

” The goal, he says, is to “ease [your manager] into empowering you.” ” The conversation should be constructive and one-on-one, Finkelstein adds. He suggests saying something like, “I’m trying to figure out the best way to accomplish the goals of our team. ” Talk to your boss.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. From why, move to "what."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

And just like software engineers who hold code in their head or a law firm partner who controls critical client relationships, the Dana-Farber scientists hold a credible threat of walking out the door with their IP and grant-winning prowess. Publicize advances that people make collaboratively to stir up some constructive rivalry among peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Michelle Morgan, who works in online marketing in Missouri, couldn’t complain about the amount of feedback she was getting from her boss; he piled on the praise about her performance regularly. And since she specifically wanted to hear constructive criticism of her leadership on the project, she focused her questions on that topic.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. The good news is, your new commitment to listening will help you achieve your goal of producing better content. Best wishes Justino.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

You should stay in touch with departed colleagues “because those people are your advance warning” on what the job market is like and how you’ll fare should you decide it’s time to leave. “Be constructive,” he says. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.”

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