Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2016

How was it possible that they missed the fact that ALL brains operate this way, even their own? Misunderstanding, misrepresenting, distorting what others say costs us all a lot – in personal capital, money, and possibility. Yet none of them hired me. Why do we assume we listen accurately?

Wilde 51

Wilde Active Listening Download Construction 51

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

As I reported here previously , there is very credible evidence that a narcissistic leader will take a company on a wild ride that won’t result in any better or worse performance. We regularly share information and costs across business activities. high technology).

CEO 118

CEO P&L Company Venture Capitalist 118

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover. Our Freedom.

Brand 382

Brand Brand Management Blog Media 382

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 8, 2018

This civilian mission was called Operation Dynamo. People may consider your ideas wild and crazy. Churchill knew his war cabinet would be stronger if there were people who were willing to stand up to him. Much like Churchill, you’ll have the opportunity to choose who will be on your team. This would be a costly mistake.

Leadership 214

Leadership Follow-up Power Learning-by-Doing 214

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2012

His purpose is to provide cohesive, comprehensive, and cost-effective coverage of management “basics” and [.]. Baker RockBench Publisging Corporation (2010) All the management basics, well-presented There are no head-snapping revelations in this book, nor does David Baker make any such claim.

Books 93

Books Management Review Cost 93

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration and requires minimum experience of 1,500 hours of flight time, 500 hours of cross-country flight time, 100 hours of night flight time, and 75 hours of instrument operations time. The second question to ask, then, is how important it is to capture user data in the wild.

Company 8

Company Wilde Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The authors of a Harvard Business School working paper, Goals Gone Wild , reviewed a number of research studies related to goals and concluded that the upside of goal setting has been exaggerated and the downside, the "systematic harm caused by goal setting," has been disregarded. Yes, we often reach the goal, but at what cost?

Goal 20

Goal BHAG Wilde Class 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The standard concern is that the high US dollar hurts America’s manufacturing cost position because US production costs are inflated by the dollar’s appreciation.

EPS 8

EPS Short-term Cost of Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. How do we change this?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Efficient, uniform operations are table stakes in the modern business environment. We rely on carefully crafted systems, policies, and procedures to reduce the cost of doing business and ensure a consistent experience for customers. The solution might be idiosyncratic and inefficient, but it’s accepted as a cost of doing business.

Operations 8

Operations Constraint System Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Unlike the stiff, formalized approach to most director-executive interactions, Netflix encourages its board members to spend time watching the company operate “in the wild.” According to one director, “It’s hard to imagine we could have done it without the intimate knowledge of the operations and the people.”

Analysis 8

Analysis Document CEO Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It produces excess volatility over the business cycle, resulting in measurable economic costs — both to people and to the companies they work for. Due to very low marginal costs of delivery, these services are available to even small and medium-size businesses. unemployment benefits and Medicaid) would decline.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Moreover, "many directors have seemed to regard their job as a kind of high-stress operational joy ride," involving unmarked planes, cigars, and exotic locales — sort of like a real-life Bond movie with worse suits and lamer cars. Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (NPR). How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus (Wired).

White Paper 8

White Paper Wilde Hotels Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The Future of Operations. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Hence much of the management world operates under the illusion that employees are generally ethical, and that bad apples are not only an exception but also easy to detect. Yet dishonest work behaviors, such as staff abuse, rule bending, and theft cost the economy billions. Take the Enron and WorldCom scandals, which cost the U.S.

Management 13

Management 360-Degree Feedback Ethics Morale 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The arsonist's mode of operation is to first lure hundreds of young immigrant women and men into a multistory building by offering them $1 a day to sew clothing. Raw capitalism becomes brutal and wild when it escapes the taming confines that have been constructed by developed governments. Their failures become yours.

Wilde 8

Wilde Compliance Cost Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

It's hard to cite many businesses that make kindness the bedrock of their operating strategies. Consider the fact that kind acts don't generally add costs — unless you have employees giving away the store. American resolved a problem where the customer was at fault. In theory, Frank deserved to miss his flight.

Strategy 18

Strategy Airlines Hotels Heskett 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. What's the holdup?

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Glass is different.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

. “Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. In what broader culture and environment are you operating and what are some of the overarching challenges and opportunities?

Planning 8

Planning Participative Wilde Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I sometimes hear leaders in large companies musing about creating “startup-style” incentives to reward people who come up with brilliant ideas that help increase revenue or cut costs; few actually follow through. Fear of failure. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Amazon needs to keep in mind that its lofty stock price is courtesy of Wall Street betting that its wild growth will continue. With its operational excellence and buying power, it can trounce the competition in price. Customers have to either trust that Amazon is offering a good price or take the time to check other retailers.

Price 8

Price Retail Merchandising Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. Those cultures quickly and cost-effectively turn predictive failures into analytic successes. The forecasting models—which were marvels—mapped out revenues and margins by property and room type.

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

India's leading IT companies, for instance, have developed their infrastructure themselves: They operate transportation systems round the clock, generate huge amounts of power, and run gigantic training operations to remain competitive. In India, that is impossibly hard.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Wilde Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

Despite his seemingly radical thinking about email, Breton isn’t exactly the model of a rogue start-up founder testing out wild new ways to work. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent.

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s not an instinct limited to the wild. ” I would add that the aspiration in uncertainty is not to reduce the chances of failure, but to minimize its costs, and the odds that the same failure recurs. The best of these operations rely less on policies or procedures, and more on basic values that establish a culture.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 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!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. Those cultures quickly and cost-effectively turn predictive failures into analytic successes. The forecasting models—which were marvels—mapped out revenues and margins by property and room type.

Hotels 8

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.” Cost-cutting and job losses typically occur in M&A as companies aggressively pursue efficiencies and eliminate redundancies. We acquired Vanguard at an affordable price, so we could afford a thoughtful approach.

Company 9

Company Direct Marketing Execution Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.". Human beings operate best when we take on one thing at a time , sequentially. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism," he wrote, "that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. Keep the faith.

Commitment 15

Commitment Resistance Wilde Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. I am excited for Pichai.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Morgan operating from a position of strength to build a steel monopoly at the beginning of the 20th century; it''s a group of battered, eternally struggling companies trying to come up with a sustainable industry model. Well, there''s definitely been innovation since the deregulation of the U.S. That last bit is surely true. This isn''t J.P.

Airlines 9

Airlines Transportation Travel Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

At one end of the spectrum is the tired, uninspired (but common) 3% cost of living adjustment that many organizations dole out across the board. However, it’s clear that some of the more traditional ways — and some not-so-traditional ones — of paying people are no longer motivating and engaging employees.

Metrics 8

Metrics Price Policies Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He, his partners, and the American Company’s investors would control every stage of the operation, from mining on remote New Jersey mountainsides to selling metal bars in London. The more charcoal the blast furnaces consumed, the further Hasenclever’s timber cutters needed to range for trees, driving up costs.

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8