You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

But of course, it’s not. Greenberg’s primary observations were not about executing business disaster recovery plans or repositioning Data Centres and telecommunications systems but about the people in his organization; their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on. Sounds pretty simple.

Contingency Plans 69

Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills? You’ll be glad you did.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Norwegian telecommunication firm, Telenor, has been in the news recently as it tries to sell its Indian joint venture with property developer, Unitech Ltd. The Indian firm — primarily a property developer — had limited experience in the telecom sector even though it had bid for and won spectrum licenses in 2008.

Wireless 12

Wireless Licensing Telecommunications Price 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. since the index was first developed in 2008. Neither Utilities nor Telecommunications are represented in the chart below because all but a few companies in those sectors have no non-domestic revenue.

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. That, we believe, is the benefit behind Apple's decision.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. The board can also continue to ensure the success of leapfrog leaders after their ascension to the CEO role.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

37signals has developed a dozen different products and services since its founding in 1999. So instead of following the conventional wisdom about growth through diversification, CEO and founder Jason Fried is doubling down on one successful area and putting all of his resources in one basket. Refocusing” might be an understatement.

Strategy 11

Strategy Telecommunications Pharmaceuticals Software 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential. times the estimated $169.5

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. As a result, many top-tier students in developing markets graduating from the best Western institutions are motivated to stay abroad.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course. Here a few notable examples. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. If a goal is too easy to achieve, it will not prompt sufficient ingenuity and skills development. (If

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Square and similar developments like PayPal Now by eBay's payments arm pose a clear threat both to companies that manufacture payments processing terminals (like NCR, which is attempting to respond with its Silver offering), and potentially to the credit card companies themselves, who receive a piece of every credit card transaction.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. This is far from a perfect solution, of course.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

But of course, it’s not. While there were lessons to be learned about executing business disaster recovery plans and the positioning of Data Centres and telecommunications systems, Mr. Greenberg’s primary observations were less about that and more about the people, their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on.

Performance Review 43

Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them. To allow comparisons across the geographies, we held consistent age spans and generational names.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

According to Techies.com, the average age of a software developer in Silicon Valley is 24. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. If your skills are rusty, enroll in a course to supplement your gaps.

COO 13

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13