Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. She backed up these general statements with a specific example of “resolving unexpected issues in a timely manner.”

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Everyone can improve their coaching, exactly what form "improve coaching" takes could vary for every individual: be more encouraging, be more challenging, focus on building an understanding of the organization as a system, spend more time coaching - less time reading and writing reports, etc.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. We are ensuring that our systems, practices, controls, technology and, above all, culture meet the highest standards…Eventually most of these new processes will be embedded permanently in how we conduct our business.” Boards Ethics Risk management'

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

At Cisco, we are learning to answer these questions through three initiatives designed to broaden our knowledge base by bringing multiple perspectives together: embracing diversity within our walls; reaching out across industries; and building partnerships with former (and current) competitors. Internal diversity.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. The reasons are rooted partly in the pernicious nature of complexity, and partly in the way that human beings psychologically respond to risk.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Earlier this year an alarming story hit the news: Hackers had taken over the electronic key system at a luxury hotel in Austria, locking guests out of their rooms until the hotel paid a ransom. For example, many IoT devices share default user names and passwords that are well known and can be found with a quick Google search.

Hotels 10

Hotels Company Technology Software 10