Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. Then, of course, there are just some bad ideas and stale social enterprise models.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

But of course, it’s not. In telling his story, Mr. 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.

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Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the 1980s, I appeared on a videotape that was widely distributed as part of a leadership development course for IBM managers. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious.

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Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. To give a couple of examples: in the more classic, regulated utilities industries such as electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, regulations on pricing or on competition can have immediate impact on value.

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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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

A company's value can rise and fall dramatically by how well it manages partnerships. management has since responded rapidly, and is reportedly working out a new arrangement with its partner. Partnerships are always to some extent open-ended contracts , of course, and complete control is by definition absent.

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Management Airlines Telecommunications Marketing 12

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. Clearly, India is an attractive telecommunications market for international players. This level of engagement placed too many stresses on the Uninor partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

But corporate learning management systems remain slow, hard to use, and difficult to maintain. Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores. They’re getting in the way of employee development instead of supporting it.

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Telecommunications Retail Human Capital Class 8

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.

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Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. She was enrolled in my MBA course when she received some bad news. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. One way, of course, is to fake it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Of course, not everything is different. There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. The last decade, of course, was the era of big data. But we’re here to talk about technology.

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Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. The right combination of tactics, of course, depends on a company’s sector, strategy, and proposition to customers.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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.

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. Sure, Africa has promising startups, but those are in extreme niche areas like agriculture tech and waste management tech, where there is no direct competition with the global tech giants.

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Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s a question all top managers should ask: How can I make my sales force, which is one of the biggest and most important investments my company makes, perform more effectively?". Managing a sales force requires many difficult decisions. Improving sales force management is a huge opportunity. Sales forces are expensive.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

The most active hiring will be in the materials and IT & telecommunications sectors. Herman Trend Alerts are written by Joyce Gioia, a Strategic Business Futurist, Certified Management Consultant, author, and professional speaker. Archived editions are posted at [link]. © Copyright 1998-2013 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc.,

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Skills White Paper Case Study Telecommunications 159

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Judgment of course is what is required when all the facts that can be assembled dont make a decision obvious. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

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. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S. What’s the larger point to be made here?

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Can you comfortably make course corrections when your decisions don’t work out? But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. Actor Cary Grant said it this way: “A thousand details add up to one impression.”. How adaptable are you as a person?

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

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. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. Do it fast.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. He wasnt a process manager. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application. Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

A leader with significant experience in negotiating international energy agreements moved from Petronas, the national oil company, to Telekom Malaysia where she acquired skills in operating an integrated telecommunications network. Talent management Leadership Developing employees'

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In India, loosened business regulations and restrictions on foreign investment and imports, along with reductions in bureaucracy spurred a boom in economic activity, including a major expansion of the telecommunications industry and space program and the birth of the software and information technology sector.

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Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

The FCC staff consists of some of the finest telecommunications economists on the planet, who obviously know that the report's mode of competitive analysis is woefully behind the current state of the art. wireless market was "effectively competitive.". He promises action on releasing more spectrum "soon."

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Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

They will now be a “one product company” focused on Basecamp, its popular project management software. Despite all of this advice, the kind of radical focus exhibited by 37signals (now Basecamp) is difficult for managers who often act like kids in a candy store. “Refocusing” might be an understatement.

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Strategy Telecommunications Pharmaceuticals Software 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

A telecommunications revolution, towards fourth generation (4G) mobile services, will transform the consumer landscape over the next 5-10 years. Digital rights and viewing habits are much easier to manage on mobile networks and revenues are likely to start expanding as more people view their entertainment on mobile devices.

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Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

These arent, of course, the only questions worth reflecting on — nor perhaps even the best ones. These arent, of course, the only questions worth reflecting on — nor perhaps even the best ones. You can ask yourself who, when, and where questions, too — to name just a few.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. For complex initiatives, of course, this is simply not the case.

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