Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Mid-February brings the beautifully presented, coffee-table-styled book, Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt , written for senior executives who are frustrated by the slow pace and limited return on investment (ROI) of their digital transformation, and are unsure what’s holding them back. He is based in Paris.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Identify and communicate criteria for successful leadership.

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

However, this is something that we also strive to inspire amidst our own team. Virtual programs with a major telecommunications firm in Malaysia. Rather than using a standard story and leadership framework, we specifically addressed their setbacks to ensure their current and future success.

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

By building a high-performing team , your business will be far more likely to weather industry storms and succeed long-term. They can also translate that vision to their team and show them how they can contribute. This is a great option for new employees or a team or department with shared goals. Who Should Coach? Guest Post.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

We are thrilled to have Ruth join our StrategyDriven team," says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven President and CEO. For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services.

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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. What if you really do need to get the other team on board?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While these advantages are easy to see from the vantage point of the CEO, they can be difficult to execute. The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

I’ve been struck over the years watching executives opine in public about the need for “accountability” and “high performance,” then complain helplessly in private about one or two middling members of their own team. Chronic mediocrity is a symptom of ineffective leadership, not anemic personnel.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Whether you are a project manager, senior manager, team member, consultant, trainer or student, you will be able to use this book to improve the way in which you manage projects. Juliano Howard T.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

With more than 4500 Team Members worldwide, we serve more than 175,000 clients in every major industry sector. Keith has over 10 years experience in telecommunications and data networking. As a business owner or IT manager, you need tips and tactics on striking the right balance. To learn more about Black Box, click here.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. And more than half of executives (56%) say that their biggest challenge is ensuring that their daily decisions about strategy and resource allocation are in alignment with their companies’ strategies.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. This was a top priority in my first year as P&G’s chief executive, after setting goals but ahead of strategy.” They must “make team members feel like they have equity in what they are doing.” billion to $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

When senior leaders disappear after a big change announcement, and leave lower-level managers to execute it, they are missing in action. The CEO of a large telecommunications firm announced an enterprise-wide cost-reduction and simplification effort as a way of responding to rapidly changing technologies and new competitive threats.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their employees, but the reality for senior executives? What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. There isn't any.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Do you have the personality type that can create a plan, execute that plan, and get things done? Perhaps we would lose a key team member, or a recession would pinch sales. Are you good at supervising others, and do you enjoy that?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And in business life, CEOs incentivize and promote those senior executives who can get new ideas to market more quickly than competitors. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. But many senior executives lose touch with the humble customer as they get closer to the C-Suite.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. 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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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. He talked openly about his challenges and fears, inviting feedback from four executive coaches whom he’d just met.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

At frog, we hear the same things from executives in financial services, healthcare, and infrastructure. We even hear it from our clients in the international market, such as regional telecommunications companies, who see a "unified user experience strategy" like Apple's as a sign of status. But that was a foreign idea not so long ago.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. The job of Swisscom’s Silicon Valley team is to find the very best ideas from the giant marketplace of mobile innovations and introduce them to headquarters in Bern, Switzerland.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You want to give a member of your team a stretch assignment, but she tells you she’s just “not ready yet” — she’d like to get more experience before taking it on. If someone on your team is hampered by a harsh inner critic, they’re likely to talk themselves out of sharing their ideas and insights.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). taxes or trade).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

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. Support the sales force in executing the plays. That means aligning sales coverage with opportunity and creating straightforward sales "plays" for each type of opportunity.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. You can measure your ToMo or your team’s ToMo using a survey on our site. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. What is culture worth? Creating a business case for culture isn’t impossible.

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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. Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Fact 4: Organizations with a greater percentage of women in leadership roles perform better financially.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

I recently spoke with the leadership team of a top Silicon Valley technology firm that had installed an internal enterprise collaboration platform for its employee engagement and collaboration efforts. Our research shows that leadership participation is crucial for collaboration. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. Next, candidly evaluate how you compare with other executives, based on your proven track record. Is she translating strategy into excellent execution? Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. Failure Government Leading teams' Playing the blame game.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S.

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