Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Thus, the new behavior on social networks is to develop, as one venture capitalist quipped , "a precious journal of moments to look at in the future.". Psychologists have long understood the power of psychological hoarding. Said one Instagram addict about cataloging the highlights of her day, "I don't have a problem or anything.I

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the process, they helped close the gap between who we were and who we were capable of becoming. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. Transform yourself first There is no more powerful way to inspire others to change than to change yourself first.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Unique tools, data, or process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. The AI technologies of today are astoundingly powerful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

While most of us will not undertake negotiations of this complexity, Koh’s approach offers powerful lessons for all negotiations. Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. Acted as Chief Negotiator for Singapore in talks leading to the U.S.-Singapore Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Master your brief.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“This is the first time I’ve been through this process myself.” Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. They certainly didn’t have time for infighting like this.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Because innovation requires it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Strategy and business development executive with substantial experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. It should match what they’re looking for. And be sure to avoid clichés.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This feels awful,” and let that admission sit in your awareness without fighting it or using it to berate yourself, it loses its power to derail you. I encourage my clients to check in with how their work process feels at different points throughout the day and make adjustments to improve the quality of their work experience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This feels awful,” and let that admission sit in your awareness without fighting it or using it to berate yourself, it loses its power to derail you. I encourage my clients to check in with how their work process feels at different points throughout the day and make adjustments to improve the quality of their work experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It is said that when only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Consultant was trying to nail the problems with the only hammer he had – the best practices. The boss continued, “Context is a powerful thing. You can endlessly talk about your knowledge, but unless mapped to a context, it has no meaning.”.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously. There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting. The leader needs to manage both content and process. Are we on topic?

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