Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Look how much money we’re going to make if we follow our plan (ER: Greed and excitement). If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. Our users love our games. (ER: ER: Nodding).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. The glasses were already mounted on display cases custom designed to take advantage of some unused space the vendor had ferreted out from a typical Walmart floor plan. There is no substitute for grass roots research. Don''t figure it out.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Telecom and financial services are poised to lead the way, with respondents in these sectors planning to increase their AI tech spend by more than 15% a year — seven percentage points higher than the cross-industry average — in the next three years. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American leadership in the clean-energy sector extends beyond solar and wind to natural gas, which is much cleaner than other carbon-based fuels and is abundant in the United States. But with other countries working hard to develop their own clean technologies, the U.S. Declining energy prices would also help raise U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

To us, the key about intentionality is that it must focus on a business model, a business plan upfront, with both economic and social impact. What we study in the classroom about economics and about business doesn’t always play out the way that we plan or hope in the real world. We don’t want to go there.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Companies all over the country have implemented Ann Rhoades’ methods, developed when she was an executive at JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and others and perfected at her consulting company, People Ink. You can’t force culture. You can only create environment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Succession Planning That Works. Unfortunately, most succession plans don’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Effective leaders encourage ideas to be presented without the labels of “Bill’s idea” or “Mary’s plan.” When planning is not done, then work moves along much slower. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2015

Does the new role fit that trajectory in terms of responsibilities, scope, subject matter, leadership opportunities, exposure or any other number of criteria? If not, do the new responsibilities actually enhance your original plans? Develop an approach for discussing your objectives. Think about your career trajectory.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. In what I hope is a case of hyperbole, Nayar put it thus: business today is "coming from a seven-year planning cycle to a seven-minute planning cycle."

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