Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

We need to be “urgently” reflective because too often by the time we find out it’s broken, it’s been broken for a very long time. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. (To Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. That will kill your company over the long term.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? And what are your strategic goals?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). The goal of this stage was to help care providers effectively enact the new protocol.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Taking a long view doesn't mean companies should go radio-silent.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

When he had asked why she had done this for so long, she replied, “It’s a gift I’ve been given. If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. I must give it away to others”. How could I have forgotten the gift of presence?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

cities that have initiated climate change planning in some fashion, focusing on the 51 cities that have adopted a plan that dedicates at least a chapter to climate change adaptation. More specifically, we sought to identify if there are any benefits to beginning with the narrower approach. We identified over 200 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Habits like winning too much (the need to win every workplace disagreement, even when it doesn’t matter), adding too much value (adding your two cents to every discussion), and goal obsession (becoming so wrapped up in achieving short-term goals that you forget the larger mission). Happy faces appear more neutral.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. The debate is far from settled and will likely go on for a long time. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? As a hard-working employee, you will be measured by and rewarded for the long hours you put in at the office and the gym. Bunge launched a new strategy, aiming to reinvent Björn Borg as a notable premium brand in sports fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals. It’s the realm of fashion houses that know to make fewer chokers and invest in more crop tops. We call it slow innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

In the wake of any natural disaster, including the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , urgent response eventually gives way to long-term recovery. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Here are a few thoughts on how you can more effectively address these issues and reach your goals in an authentic and enduring way. This is a long-term growth company. It will give you great long-term returns, because we perform very well.'" These are pragmatic business issues that all leaders encounter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Benchmarking seems to assure leaders that as long as their organization’s performance is 50% of the national average or better, things are okay. Once you know that zero is the goal, you will realize that achieving it is unlikely in your current system. Define the goal. Any model cell should address a business problem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. To achieve better care, employers need to work with providers to determine the conditions that are generating the greatest direct and indirect costs and to develop measurable quality goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If this discussion leads to the conclusion that constant availability is required to meet the goals of the organization, that’s a corporate issue that needs to be addressed. This may be an acceptable short-term situation, but it’s not sustainable long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

For many, identity is too abstract a concept to link to measurable objectives; for others, it is too long-term an ideal to translate into current goals. One of Barça’s ideals is that soccer must be played skillfully and in an artistic fashion rather than relying on sheer strength and size.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. The CEO joked with the men, complimented them on their work, and treated them as long-term team members. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Does he ever mean what he says?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Amazon represents the state-of-the-art in deploying an integrated strategy machine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. The student presenter acknowledged the risks and simply stated, "Well, we won''t know any of that for a long time. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that most people will go to great lengths to help someone who has been of assistance to them. Publish quality content that adds value – what you produce in terms of content will be become synonymous with your online reputation. So long, [link] mikemyatt Hi Justino: Thanks for your comment. Long road ahead.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Of course, finding the “sweet spot” for the timing tolerance of each audience takes a little experimenting, observation and an understanding of the industry in which they operate. Understanding the “pulse” of an industry and the standards by which they operate is a great starting point to determine a suitable frequency and timing of emails.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Some are short-term, others stretch into an imagined future. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. A focus on solutions might mean they figure out how to help you reach your goal weight. The project would have a clear goal (finish the marathon) and a clear start and end date.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Over the course of a year, we built strong case studies in fashion, design, and technology. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

That said, the respondents might be right in the larger sense that companies are unprepared for systemic and longer-term challenges. In my experience, most companies are risk-averse and like to fashion themselves as great “fast followers.” Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

In the end, the company often fails the ideas long before the ideas can fail the company. It was quite popular to established research laboratories and skunkworks operations that would allow employees to focus on technologies and offerings intended to grow the business. Companies often have problems launching these concepts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The two major players didn’t share priorities: CMS prioritized the October 1 st deadline above operability. Following old-fashioned buck-stops-here logic, post-failure investigations hoisted mangers like Kathleen Sebelius onto the chopping block, (unsurprisingly) failing to reveal any solutions for Healthcare.gov’s problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The goal is to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself. Q: How long does this process generally take? At best, they are able to respond in a somewhat coordinated fashion when customers come to them. Q: Could you give an example?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

With that goal in mind, the greeting card and media company equipped members of its long-established online consumer communities of women advisers with a simple ethnography app, which they used to conduct a variety of projects. “And what we learned was sobering. “And what we learned was sobering.

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