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. This week, his other company, SpaceX, became the first commercial company in history to put a spacecraft in orbit and bring it back to earth. 

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Company executives were split on the matter. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Leadership and Change It was a planned change. Leave a comment and share your ideas. Nothing like changes that occur.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation. Suppressing Innovation. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? and this is in addition to reading a variety of industry publications and periodicals.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Most consultants are vendors who sell packages of products and services, displaced executives, computer vendors or people in transition. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Thereafter, tools of the trade (including technology) may be applied. Transportation is a status symbol to some people.

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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. The world is getting smaller.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ceasing CD production will harm an already ailing music industry, where technology is not the answer: Analyzing the music industry and changing technologies. Focusing only on the technology, not on the creative output. In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the phonograph record, for the purpose of transporting music to consumers.

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Download Industry Trends Technology 55

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. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

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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. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Our research showed that it is possible for business executives to assess how susceptible their industry is to disruption and why, and to do the same at a more granular level for their company. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It won't be global middle class level with incomes of over $70,000, but still above subsistence living, buying health care, food, education, transportation, and entertainment. C ommitting to systematic execution: Turning ideas into action and executing relentlessly.

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McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Amazon, for example, has learned that same-day delivery could increase revenues significantly, and it is also aware that new insurgent start-ups such as Instacart and WunWun are focusing on the instant delivery of certain products, so it has invested in its own delivery fleet, drone technology and more. “It is big.”

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

World demand for oil is expected to grow on an annual basis by at least one million barrels per day, driven by the developing economies of the world and growth in transportation, which is forecast to increase from one billion cars today to two billion in 2050. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers.

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Policies Energy Transportation Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology. Toward a New Leadership Agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

But we at The Boston Consulting Group believe that the current dip in China’s growth will not endure and that, under Xi’s leadership, China’s economy is destined to continue growing at a rapid clip. Detailed plans for reform and accelerated growth will be set, and then promptly executed, in geographies across China.

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Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. First is staying power.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Just two World Cups ago, matches were won — and lost — by opportunistic passes and breakaway attacks that resulted in thundering goals; today, smart attacks consist of a multitude of passes, executed so quickly and by so many players that they take defenses apart.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. ” At most Fortune 1000 firms, executives who’d “walk out the door and come back in” fully recognize their status quo is both inadequate and unsustainable.

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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. A fundamental problem at many American car companies is a legacy of reacting slowly, protecting executives from bad news, and focusing on cutting costs.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Just two World Cups ago, matches were won — and lost — by opportunistic passes and breakaway attacks that resulted in thundering goals; today, smart attacks consist of a multitude of passes, executed so quickly and by so many players that they take defenses apart.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Just ask the executives at Uber, Twitter, Fitbit, and Snapchat.) Sponsored by DXC Technology. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Recent comments from their leadership suggest that they may have: Jim Albaugh, the company's commercial aviation chief, noted that "in hindsight, we spent a lot more money in trying to recover than we ever would have spent if we tried to keep many of the key technologies closer to Boeing. The pendulum swung too far."

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Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2023

This change is what organizations are looking for, and it can only happen when women are given the chance to hold major executive and non-executive positions. The benefits of remote working are obvious—less commuting, fewer transport emissions, better quality of life with more time with family and friends.

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