General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

If that is not impressive enough, they also created the first comprehensive atlas of China and eagerly shared the findings of their global travels with all who were interested. However, like the Jesuits each of us wants to use our time, talent and energy to help make the world better than we first found it.

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Commitment Mentor Examples Compliance 419

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. With the reconnaissance behind me, my team and I started to actively brainstorm about our values list, while at the same time continuing to tinker with our operations machine.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2011

She'd had the whole room rapt by her energy. Before you jump into a change of direction, make a strategic plan with steps, goals, deadlines, and financial projections. Break goals into small tasks with deadlines. After the meeting I told my friend how impressed I was with this woman. What a dynamo! Everyone's eyes were on her.

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Succession Brainstorming Committee Self-aware 171

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. — 10 Comments. What Can We Learn From Dale Carnegie? The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry : Pray.

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Leadership Open-book Influence Training 213

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.” For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. He prefers to get see things first hand. “I

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

Management Craft

JUNE 27, 2011

I regret that the timing of this diagnosis and operation is bad for several of my clients. I was just about to gear up for nearly a month of travel, talks, classes, and consulting. In particular, he told me not to go overseas too soon after the operation in case of any complications. It is important to get it all out.

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Chemicals Bottom-up Operations Agility 71

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Professional societies and associations. Composers and lyricists to write songs.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 1, 2019

Travel to exotic lands? I will be SVP of Operations and increase my salary by 15%" or "I will launch a new line of products and increase my client base by 20%". To do this you need Goals (step 1) and a Roadmap (step 2). Put your goal on a Post-It note and post it on your mirror to see every morning. A promotion/raise?

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Goal Energy 210

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Imagine the countless hours entrepreneurs spend talking, traveling, and socializing with contacts and potential investors. In fact, many of the founders I coach describe networking as draining, saying it sometimes robs them of the energy they need to work on actual business operations. How did you feel at the end of each week?

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How To Long-term Entrepreneur Energy 8

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 6, 2017

Travel to exotic lands? “I will be SVP of Operations and increase my salary by 15%” or “I will launch a new line of products and increase my client base by 20%” Maybe “I will learn the piano and take my family to Hawaii.” To do this you need Goals (step 1) and a Roadmap (step 2).

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Goal Learning-by-Doing Travel Energy 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.” GE is an icon of management best practices.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

An expert in banking regulation or solar energy production — or any other niche, challenging area — will find good opportunities to apply their skills. Is it flexibility and less travel? The university you teach at seems to operate without urgency. Be clear on why. The opportunity to give back?

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Career Succession How To Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox. Energy returned.” He labeled the summit with his ultimate goal, “zero footprint,” and called his transformation effort “Mission Zero.”

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Resistance How To Survey Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Employees who do not adhere to a shared corporate culture dilute it, detracting from the essence that gives your company its identity and helps it achieve aggressive goals. You don't want to hire someone destined to fail, wasting their time and energy (and yours). Be crystal clear about your culture and values.

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Skills Company Teamwork Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

They devised a plan for homeless encampments that would operate more like cooperatives, and would include case managers, vocational schools, showers, wifi, a dining hall, and wellness programming while operating at a profit. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it.

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Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Rather than measuring marketing KPIs or operations KPIs, focus instead on the more customer-oriented journey KPIs, such as lifetime margin.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals. Playing development to win will be the hallmark of great companies operating in emerging markets. They are playing development to win.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. Without this focus, development energy can be expended on the wrong feature rather than optimization of a micro-interaction to drive conversion. Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!),

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Team Management Software Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The second was maximizing the productivity of maintenance crews (for example, ensuring that when a work team traveled to a site, the necessary preparations had been carried out). As these projects achieved their goals, new projects, aimed at more strategic issues, were launched.

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Mission Statement Project Bottom-up Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals. The biggest challenge of all may be inspiring colleagues throughout the company to find the time, amidst their travel and deadlines and calendar appointments, to consider themselves a co-conspirator in slow innovation work. Be rigorous about fostering serendipity.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Conrad was juggling too many other pursuits to take an executive position at the time, but he agreed to help her and serve on the board, and his ideas, energy, and fearlessness contributed to the organization’s success in attracting dedicated people and money. operations. Still, she hadn’t forgotten her roots.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. What’s the overarching goal? The “ big, hairy, and audacious &# goal? “Vi&# is Vision. What are our shared values?

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Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

” Your goal is to get “an objective view” of how much of the firing “was about you and how much of it was about external factors.” “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. ” Keep it short and upbeat.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

QAspire

JULY 18, 2010

It is people who work, co-operate with each other, demonstrate trust, work as a team, share a common goal, exercise their ‘discretionary effort’ and make things happen. Writing them (and then receiving these comments) gives me similar shots of energy! Processes are crucial but not sufficient. Have a GREAT week ahead!

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Succession Team Project Quality 149

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368