Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

By Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Lacking sufficient levels of connection is associated with poorer cognitive performance , impaired executive control and self-regulation , lower levels of self-rated physical health , substance abuse , depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. We’ve come to expect it. A Heavy Load.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own. It’s all good stuff to discuss.

CFO 58

CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from serving on boards? increased by over $300,000.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up. ” Ya gotta love it!

Airlines 53

Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). That's one reason that job rotation is more common than ever as a development tool.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. In the consumer products company I mentioned above, one interviewee told us, “People would get to meetings 30 minutes early to make sure they sat near the executive they wanted to be seen with.”

P&L 12

P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more.

Management 14

Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. As part of this effort, they discovered that the majority of employees who were advising Janssen on emerging markets had never set foot in those countries. Have you actually seen this done?”.

Innovation 11

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Should you take a more targeted approach, with a short-term executive education program? As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Start by looking at the job you’re aiming for. Learning.

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Decide: What are the key products, markets, and capabilities? Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

Process 70

Process P&L CEO Execution 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. Market share expanded, cost controls tightened, safety improved, operational efficiency peaked, and so did profits. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.].

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

Company 72

Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 72

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J.

CEO 8

CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Who has P&L authority? Insight center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. ” he asked.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

Based on many years as a business founder, executive, and advisor, I would argue that getting the deal closed requires an appreciation for one key principle about decision makers that many of us get wrong. Next, I went through a more detailed examination of the motivations of two of those stakeholders, the champion and the blocker.

P&L 8

P&L Due Diligence CIO COO 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. ” Robert P. ” Roy L. They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. Management remains isolated or unrealistic, possessing limited leadership development and people skills. Business Development. Body of Knowledge.

Strategy 61

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 61

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done.

P&L 15

P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. But our data shows a completely different picture. In contrast, only 24% had elite MBAs.). Make a Big Leap.

CEO 8

CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

As Tommy Bamford and Jane Oldenburg drove into the visitor section of Westmid Builders' car park, Jane pointed out the man they had come to see: Steve Houghton, Westmid's purchasing executive. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? What do executives look for in new employers? To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010. Platform and track record. What is its reputation?

Reputation 12

Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. The source for that must have been Ana Montoya, the company's chief marketing officer. Beatriz, you know how Alegre works.

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Take newspapers.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8