Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. Jason Westland introduces us to a Method123 Project Management Methodology (MPMM TM ), which defines the best practice phases, activities and tasks required to complete a project on time and within budget.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. Partnering with managers. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Simply click on the link above to download your copy of this remarkable ebook on effective change management. About the Author Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance , is a renowned change management expert, speaker, and bestselling author. Please consider voting for us on Podcast Alley by clicking here.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

As part of my new book, The Future Leader , I interviewed more than 140 CEOs around the world and asked them each to define leadership. My role in terms of leadership is to set the vision and to share it. Hans believes leadership is: “Ensuring that people have everything they need to achieve the missions of an organization.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. Be mission-driven Social entrepreneurship is facing a serious problem of ego.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Fitting Employee Personality Into Your Leadership Puzzle?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. When executed well, the results are astonishing.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers, even at the most senior levels, don’t fully appreciate the difference between announcing a major change initiative and actually making it happen. When senior leaders disappear after a big change announcement, and leave lower-level managers to execute it, they are missing in action. Consider this example.

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Delegation Management Telecommunications Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The term comes from Arnold van Gennep, the Belgian anthropologist who first outlined the common patterns in how cultures mark transitions from one human state to another (for example, from adolescence to adulthood). Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Lawrence A.

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. It is a social function.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

But our recent research found that this style of leadership works best in motivating certain types of performance and certain types of employees. But we found that when empowering leadership is also about mentoring and supporting employee development, this can create a trusting relationship.

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Delegation Analysis Creativity Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity. You have no moral authority to ask other managers to hold people accountable if you’re not doing so yourself. Chronic mediocrity is a symptom of ineffective leadership, not anemic personnel.

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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. For example, if your partner isn’t on board, many people might choose to avoid conflicts between “your-wife-or-your-life” or “your-man-or-your-plan.” For example, my brother John and I both had appropriate experience in the car business.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 257

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? We now see they are also struggling to do a good job managing their own talent responsibilities.

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. However, it is not just a matter of getting women to the very top ranks of management. While successful female leaders have made headlines in recent years — Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Indra Nooyi all come to mind — they remain the exception to the rule.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Frequently, stressed and harried managers look up the organization hierarchy and assume that they'll have greater control of their time when they advance to the C-suite. The "flat spots" of our personality — for example, arrogance, inflexibility, aversion to risk or a tendency toward negativity — become evident.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. They might draw from CRM systems to evaluate the lifetime value of a customer, for example, or optimize pricing based on supply chain systems about available inventory.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps. There are other gaps, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, Tom Caroll was loaned from Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League to Swansea City. For example, in the Premier League, players on loan are not permitted to play against the team loaning them. Admittedly, these cutting edge examples of talent lending are still rare. Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

These include such superstars on Fortune’s 2014 list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in global business as Chandra Kochbar of India’s ICICI Bank, Chua Sock Koong of Singapore Telecommunications, and Zhang Xin of SOHO China. for example, 35% of women and 39% of men passed our literacy assessment. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

For example, early cell phones were woefully unreliable, and their voice quality paled in comparison with land lines. Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. Globally, these asset owners manage significant sums, exceeding $50 trillion at the end of 2009.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Big data managed this way may well improve your retention numbers but not transform your company. On the management side, there is increasing evidence that co-creative processes involving consumers and other stakeholders can have a transformative effect on key processes such as new product development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Talent Management. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Talent-related issues were the top concern, mentioned by 16 of the CEOs. They had a range of concerns, beginning with finding the right talent.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Heres a simple but compelling example.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. Our conversation took place at the Institute of Coaching (a Harvard Medical School affiliate) Leadership Forum, held in October at IESE Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. What qualities of culture and individual leadership allow some companies to endure where others crumble under the pressure? Good product managers are in continuous conversation with their customers. Take Southwest Airlines as an example.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, as a New England Patriots fan I am quite aware that Tom Brady will be working on Thanksgiving. For example, as a New England Patriots fan I am quite aware that Tom Brady will be working on Thanksgiving. I have a few suggestions, especially if you are someone who has to work on Thanksgiving and doesnt relish the prospect.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. He wasnt a process manager. They are viewed from the top as solid, reliable, good soldiers but not "leadership material." He ran the place by people and personalities. The company was too big for that."

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. For example, a teacher driven by purpose values or identifies with the goal of educating and empowering children. Take, for example, an experiment conducted by Teresa Amabile at Harvard. Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. For example, consumers are going to Amazon for a price check at the point of purchase, or getting coupons based on their location. For example, they recently introduced voice-activated commands ( Apple’s “Siri Eyes Free”) into certain Honda and Acura vehicles.

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