Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Today’s world is one of sharp contrasts. In fact, more than 21 million Americans are depressed, according to Mental Health America , costing U.S. Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As companies devote increasing time and energy in gathering massive quantities of data, many neglect a critical first step: Get most responsibility for data out of the IT Department. First, it seems obvious enough that one ought to put management of data (or anything else for that matter) as close to the action as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in the opening remarks of WEF founder Klaus Schwab who talked about a growing phenomenon of "burn-out" among world leaders with finite energy and time to put against seemingly bottomless complexity. Letting go takes courage and is not a natural act for most humans, or management teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Or perhaps it was because key advocates like Chuck Yorke left.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Since 2010, we've been conducting an ongoing survey of managers' attitudes about the strategies of their organizations ( click here to take the not-for-profit version of the profiler).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you tuck tail and run desiring to avoid conflict at all costs? If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. A few initial questions to ponder as we get started – How do you react when someone disagrees with you?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Let nature take its course, bailout without bankruptcy, and managed bankruptcy. They each had strong arguments in their favor: The consideration for nature taking its course was that the companies had been very badly managed for many years, and people needed to take responsibility for failure. How do you trade those things off?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Third, to be blunt, Blue Sky's engineers didn't seem all that sharp when it came to systems engineering. One person wasn't smiling.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Build a Re-Founding Team. Finally, you need to make change happen relatively quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This all came into a sharp focus when I realized, to my horror (but probably not to my surprise), that I had read just four books in all of 2014. I started to wonder: could training myself to read books again help me manage the digital information stress in the rest of my life? HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One obvious reason was that the huge trillion-dollar investment bets, most of it taxpayer money, in synthetic biology, robotics, nanotechnogy, space, and alternative energy did not pay off. The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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