Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Owning and improving land necessitated getting to that land, and so a booming real estate enterprise led to America’s transportation industry. business history can be interpreted as suppliers to the transportation industry. More people meant more buyers. The mammoth steel, coal, and petroleum industries that tower over U.S.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   As reported in Wired magazine a few months ago, Musk bought the former NUMMI manufacturing plant valued at $1 billion from Toyota for $42 million.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Embedded in the signal are engineering plans for a huge, complex device to transport a human from Earth to Vega via a wormhole system. And if wormholes proved to be real, they wouldnt work for transportation. The math says that a theoretical wormhole would be unpredictable and unstable. Not in the least.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. The company sponsored a school program for National Engineering Week and a tunnel exhibit for the neighboring Miami Children’s Museum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. Bulk up on emerging market knowledge and expertise: Paliwal now transports his entire leadership team to China for a month every year. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The bike must be impeccably maintained — oil, gas, gears, engine — and the rider must know it intimately, down to the depth of the tire treads to the millimeter. But in Africa (or, for that matter, anywhere else), if reliable transportation is not part of the health-care delivery system, people die. Barry should know.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. So, how did GE do it?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. If these two diverge too much, then management loses legitimacy and trust.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Changes at the surface create small, local differences.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In an industry that involves selling machines that transport humans at fast speeds, the notion that employees wouldn’t be encouraged to discuss safety seems odd. In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. And if so, how?

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Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, put simply, the more elements of the design that are under your control, the more effectively you're able to radically change the design of a product — you give your engineers more degrees of freedom. But, in this instance, it wasn't so much the outsourcing, as it was the decision to modularize a complicated problem too soon.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Mattresses do not fold up to be neatly transported in the back seat of a car. With prior agreement from the furniture store, I mailed a check for the amount I was told to pay–$267.50–so my friend could pick up and transport the new mattress to my lake house thirty minutes away. I called the store manager.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. Consider GE.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right?

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. More people are becoming skeptical about choosing certain careers, while employers in some sectors are getting more assurance of not having to push so hard on talent management in the future. million ounces of gold. Automation in Maritime Industry.

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Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. But technical background isn’t an absolute requirement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” When leaders include vivid images in their communications, they’re transporting employees to the future by telling snippets of a compelling story — a story that captures events that have yet to unfold. Along these lines, visions with image-based words are more consistent with the literal meaning of the word “vision.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Innovation Strategy Transportation' But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. Science and engineering have become devalued amongst American students and policy-makers. Universities must also strengthen their role in boosting Technik in America.

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