Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Whether a business sells autos, groceries, clothing, computers, bicycles, or raw materials to a manufacturer of industrial products, it wants to be the preferred provider of those products. These leaders never micro-manage. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 114

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Hewitt found that these organizations tend to more actively manage their talent. CEO Kent Kresa inherited a company that had a poor reputation for integrity, a battered stock price, and an unfortunate reputation as one of the least-admired companies in its industry. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots.

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Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Over the summer, controversy engulfed Ashley Madison, the social network for married people seeking other partners, as hackers managed to extract a huge amount of private data from the company’s servers. This story keeps coming back, because the industry treats it as a technological problem requiring a technological solution.

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Ethics Software Engineering Technology 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

IMD Business School’s Mark Greeven and Imperial College London’s George Yip suggest that the engine of this growth is in what they refer to as China’s hidden champions. billion raised by the wealth management platform Lufax. billion raised by Baidu spinoff Du Xiaoman Financial and the $1.3

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Utilization of industry consultants or technical specialists. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The experience of Esquel Group proves that a stakeholder-based strategy is feasible in even the toughest of industries. It's a myth that the garment industry's growth must be tied with the overuse of labor and that competition must be based on low wages. The garment industry must transform itself to remain relevant.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are not yet in a position to manage your website to do this type of preparatory work for you, consider using social networking tools to expand and complement your marketing efforts. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, or Ning community to share your information.

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Press Release Discount PR Blog 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Adapt ideas from other industries. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The unrestricted use of ChatGPT at work, however, can bring about a lot of ethical and safety concerns along with unexpected legal concerns for the company. Regardless of industry, ChatGPT is finding room for itself in many a career. This was found to be only a little higher than millennials at 63 percent and Gen X at 57 percent.

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Tools Content Early Adopters Software 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. James Wilson debunks the widespread misconception that AI systems will replace humans in one industry after another.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Tens of billions of connected sensors are being embedded in everything ranging from industrial robots and safety systems to self-driving cars and refrigerators. But insurers can use data collected on losses across industries to advise companies and governments on how best to quantify their potential exposure to a worst-case scenario.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Globalization Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. But moving forward, U.S.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Others stressed financial acumen and “industry-specific content knowledge.” Change-management. Virtually unacknowledged and underappreciated until quite recently, change-management skills are in growing demand. One said that hiring companies want “unquestioned ethics.”

Skills 10

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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Company Diversity ROI Mentor 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking. Coincidentally, the site where they go to work is itself of historical importance to management — because of a fight that is still alive today. It's a familiar story with management ideas.

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Taylorism Taylor Committee Engineering 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. An HBR Management Puzzle.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2019

Search Engine Rankings. We all put a lot of trust in the algorithms that determine search engine rankings, even if we don’t necessarily realize it. More importantly, good content demonstrates that you’re a leading expert in your industry, which means that they will trust in your products as well.

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Review Content Marketing Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

He’s a slacker; he works 50 hours a week,” commented a Silicon Valley engineer. A recent study reported that male managers in such marriages found organizations with egalitarian gender attitudes less appealing and were more likely to give women low job evaluations. Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth.

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Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Its purpose was to enhance people’s lives through great engineering that offered everyone an accessible, high-quality car. Soichiro Honda and his business partner Takeo Fujisawa founded their company to restore Japanese pride in engineering rather than military achievement. Nestlé was founded to save the life of a baby.

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Short-term Morale Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius. Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain: Revving the Engine of Sustained Global Prosperity and Social Value. DIRTT: A Story of DIRTTBags Revolutionizing the Building Industry. It's Time for a New Metaphor Beyond "Ethics" and "Responsibility". Hack by Chris Allen. Story by Greg Koch.

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McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. If you want to open a bakery, it helps if you have a passion for baking.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

One of America's most sophisticated design and engineering critics observed that: "I have repeatedly heard articulate people say that their family's latest automobile purchase hinged on which cup holders worked best for them.". Somehow, Jobs managed to overcome the Silicon Valley snobs. Auto interior designers loathed them.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

You should be spending at least 1,000 hours a year--that's about six hours a week; about an hour a day — preparing for a new career (Just in case that your industry goes the way of publishing, pay phones, photo finishing and the like and either disappears or radically changes to the point where there is no room for you.).

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Project PR Career Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It should now be dawning on us that they also reflect a new reality when it comes to keeping legitimate business secrets, requiring a new mindset and strategies from those leading all kinds of enterprises, especially in knowledge-intensive industries. The primary driver of this new reality is not technical, but economic.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A privacy-industrial complex has sprung up from this — technology, services, and policies all aimed at trying to protect data while allowing it to flow freely enough to keep the modern electronic bazaar thriving. ” He was right. De Montjoye and colleagues examined three months of credit card transactions for 1.1

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Proposal Policies Information Technology Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Minutes or days later, a colleague or manager misrepresents your point as their own, restates it identically, and is praised and credited for making it. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. Katie didn’t skip a beat.

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EVA How To Hotels Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). It may end up someplace where laws, regulations, and ethics are highly questionable.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

From our perspective as a retailer, we are able to predict the demand of the 50,000 different products we sell, detect fraud, and keep our customers safe, as well as manage the real-time control and health of the robot swarms and optimize the thousands of delivery routes that we drive each day. AI for Good.

Skills 1

Skills Content Chief Technology Officer Retail 1

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. The average person and organization changes 71% per year.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 82