Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. The focus was on learning and adaptation — not on hitting performance goals.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

all of these things I experienced and developed to one degree or another through sports. And when the discussion is about team sports, coaching, leadership, chemistry, relationships, role players, and all-stars become a natural part of the conversation. the skills I call on every day.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

“ Employer branding ” is no longer simply a concern for recruitment marketing; it is also a key component of effective organizational leadership. These persona-oriented profiles make it easier to market content to specific target groups, and help you find the right talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. But while managers love to engineer reorganizations, most managers (and their people) hate to be reorganized.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

It's not enough to set budgets and set goals. The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets. Make sales a team sport.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Even as a female CEO, stating this goal publicly felt like a jarring contrast to all pretty pink ribbons and lacy cupcakes at the party. But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

At Coursera, we use machine learning to help learners find the best content to reach their learning goals, and to ensure they have the support — automated and human — that they need to succeed. Data products are a team sport. Stage 1: Identify the opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

” Paul Azinger, ESPN sports analyst, claimed that Woods had become mechanical and “over-engineered himself out of being great.” They can miss important shifts in the market simply because the telltale signs don’t fit nicely within their models. What’s an achievable win toward this goal?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Goal Inspiring. Going downtown to do all of your shopping. Drive-in movies. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Goal Inspiring. Going downtown to do all of your shopping. Drive-in movies. About the Author.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The main reason is that the problems we have to solve — whether deciding company strategy or bringing an innovative offering to market — are more complex than they have ever been. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. Mix up disciplines.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we''re like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Not performing because the engine is off.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we're like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Not performing because the engine is off.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Perhaps we say “can’t&# , not because we feel we legitimately can’t do it, but we’re scared that we won’t actually achieve our goals, and we’ll fail. Just remember the little engine that could and did. Aschwin Wesselius May 20, 2010 at 8:54 am It’s not the goal, it’s the way to it. Kimball, that Nike uses.

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