The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2021

When weak ties existed between colleagues, whether along goal or personal orientated lines, there was shown to be no significant impact upon the performance of their team. This has implications for the organization of teams of scientists, engineers, and a host of others tackling today’s most complex problems.

Creativity 76

Creativity Teamwork Efficiency Innovation 76

RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 1, 2017

His first goal was to see how hard it would be to make them dislike each other. The days were filled with hotly contested sports, tug-of-war, and other contests. After some great acting by the cook, the truck engine coughed to life. Turned out it wasn’t too difficult. Let the Games Begin! Losers got nothing.

Sherif 142

Sherif Cooper Team Resources 142

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

However, you are only going to be able to achieve your goals if you get a lot of traffic to your blog. If you were to run a sports blog, for example, linking to a blog about unicorns wouldn’t help you to climb up the search engine rankings. You can also monetise your blog. Make the most of social media. There is no relevance.

Blog 72

Blog Content Media Quality 72

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Somebody’s motivation must be genuine, their goals must be realistic, and the timeline must be manageable. Google prides itself on the purity of its powerful search engine but is also not seeking to have anyone misrepresented. What are some of the hallmarks of an authentic personal brand? Where do you start?

Reputation 121

Reputation Brand How To Media 121

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

My parents taught me this concept at a young age, and it was reinforced through sports. What leadership skills did you learn while playing sports in high school and college do you use today in the workplace? I love hiring athletes because high-level sports teach two core leadership skills: professional will and curiosity.

CEO 50

CEO Books Insurance BHAG 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

How To 106

How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 106

Building Personal Strength

MAY 16, 2011

He wasn’t inclined to participate in sports. in chemical engineering. He and Janice lived a goal-driven life, deferring family until they were financially secure. Jackson believed that to achieve the independence he desired as a teenager, he needed to be the opposite of his father. After his Air Force stint, he used the G.I.

Chemicals 84

Chemicals Sports Banking Construction 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. You have annual quotas, quarterly goals, and increasing competition. How will your unit’s monthly, quarterly, and annual goals change as a result? Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales. I see this analogy in sports all the time. Hire to train.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s an issue that’s been weighing on mind over the past few months in light of the growing number of stories of women encountering sexual harassment and outright misogynistic attitudes on university campuses, as well as in many growing, high-demand sectors like the gaming industry and software engineering.

Leadership 100

Leadership Diversity Learning-by-Doing CEO 100

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Now, here’s the list of the top leadership experts to follow in 2015: Name Category About Follower Ratio (1:x) Twitter Followers Twitter Following Facebook Followers Amy Jo Martin Digital Media, Sports NY Times Best Selling Author & Founder of @DigitalRoyalty. Get hands-on serious about achieving your goals. ~ iStock photog.

Leadership 100

Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Realize that it does belong in your everyday interactions at work, and that you must give it away in order to model the compassion you want expressed at work. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

Blog 206

Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. I had the car for 20 days before I hit a truck head on and totaled it. I escaped with minor scrapes and stitches, miraculously.

Ethics 184

Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. You also have latitude to decide if a request is appropriate to organizational goals. Life – and work – are always about making choices.

Learning-by-Doing 185

Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product.

Influence 174

Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Chris Brady

APRIL 18, 2010

Posted by: Yitz Weiss | April 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM After many years of research and countless hours of investigation, traffic engineers proudly announced today their new, bold plan for dealing with large trees in the path of planned highways -- go around them!! Even da Brooklyn accountants know der's only TWO of 'em - not TREE.

Engineering 81

Engineering Blog Letter Meyer 81

Rapid BI

OCTOBER 11, 2012

I started out as an engineer and ‘fell ‘into people development almost by accident some 20 years ago, and has never looked back since. I checked and rechecked Jerry’s goals from different perspectives. . At this point I believed that Jerry wants to achieve the stated goals, is prepared to invest time and effort.

Case Study 46

Case Study Short-term Proposal Goal 46

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.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. I am a strong believer that everything or every process can be improved and we have to change our self to accommodate the improvement.

Resistance 193

Resistance Class Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 193

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.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

My goal was to measure their five main personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and negative emotionality) to better understand the characteristics that separate them their peers. They are fixated on achieving goals and continuously measure their performance in comparison to their goals.

Sports 20

Sports Politics Comparison Workshop 20

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.

Team 150

Team Sports Self-aware Strategy 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. But implicit in daring to disrupt the status quo is daring to fail.

Ries 22

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Fantasy Sports Competition. As Moneyball and the rise of quants in professional sports worldwide attest, the ability to relentlessly improve the quality and specificity of performance analytics is key to success. This class requires small teams of students to compete against each other in at least two data-rich team sports.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

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.

Sports 13

Sports Cost Incentives Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. But implicit in daring to disrupt the status quo is daring to fail.

Ries 19

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 19

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.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Most people lack sharply measured goals. But when the project succeeds — and there is a new jet engine or a new drug — very few of those people will enjoy the exhilaration of a personal win. These must-do situations all have some common elements that evoke the remarkable performance: A sharply focused, urgent goal.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Project System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For example, engineers tend to be far more attracted to companies that emphasize innovation, while those in more commercial roles tend to be far more attracted by leadership opportunities. ” This emphasis on the collective distances Adidas from Nike’s more archetypal sports obsession with individual winners.

Globalization 8

Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

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%

Diversity 8

Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

That's true whether we're talking about families, sports, projects, management, or research. Without it, they narrowly focus on specific measurable goals or task completion without context or meaning. To illustrate, let's look at the world of sports. For instance: 1.) Teams need a shared sense of purpose or shared vision.

Team 14

Team Sports Pharmaceuticals PR 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Whether in business competitions or sports matches, those that sustain success over the long term are not flawless. And on the other side of that partnership, NSN also counted on a team of talented, energetic young engineers to hustle to produce LTE for Verizon at record speed. They make mistakes. They fumble.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

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.” If they start to wander, try these questions: What is the fundamental goal? What’s an achievable win toward this goal? Who is your most important customer?

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve ROI Film Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

He argued that while the goal of closing the achievement gap between students of different ethnicities and income levels is a laudatory one, the levers and incentives that the program has in place are not working. The best engineers, scientists and managers are all highly creative. But how do you test for creativity?

Creativity 14

Creativity Education Sports Innovation 14

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. Make sales a team sport.

CEO 15

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

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.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products How To Long-term 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

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. Done well, however, a marketing blueprint details how marketing will deliver against the company’s business goals. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8