Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. As an example, Look at Apple! But Apple does not manufacture them.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. However, you shouldn’t let your pride get in the way of the potential success of your business! Some of the most successful businessmen in recent history have developed on the advice of a mentor. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Bill Gates had Buffet , and Mark Zuckerberg had Steve Jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So she reached out to Stephanie Fetchen, head of operations, who plotted monthly errors on a control chart. All met resistance but persisted until they had a real result, such as million-dollar savings, a tenfold decrease in error rate, or a distinct advantage over competitors. That required measurement.

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Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Since you, the disruptive entrepreneur, can count on incumbent resistance (if not necessarily physical attack) down the road once you're successful, the question is: What can you do early on to be prepared for the onslaught? For folks who are looking for operational principles, take these from Lisa Gansky's fabulous book, The Mesh.

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Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Medicine’s promotion tracks are currently structured for success in research, educational and/or clinical skills; promotion is not based on pre-eminence in managerial or leadership skills. Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy.

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Moreover, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they turn to online credit brokers like Fundera or Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing for a one-stop shopping experience. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. The very rarity of such interventions helps make them successful. Boards Competition Finance'

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. An increasing number of mission-driven, innovative professionals are finding they can't resist this opportunity. Some are recent graduates.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. When they voiced concerns about the business and organizational impact of her recommendations, she dismissed them as "old school" and resistant to change. Are joint ventures or strategic alliances critical to the company's success? Think for a minute.

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Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan. To be successful in creating social media influence your efforts need to be centered around others. Thanks for commenting and best wishes to you as well Robbie.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. Whether this really was the main reason for JP Morgan's $3 billion (and growing) trading loss or not, it does at least sound like it could be true.

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Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

However, much of our success is due to our highly unusual compensation strategy that motivates everybody in the business to help the company grow. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. After a short while on this program, we have found the majority of our employees to be highly resistant to going away from this plan.

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Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

But the best CEOs resist the desire to chase the next shiny object. ” At one Brazilian retailer, it’s “To give aspiring lower-class consumers the opportunity to own furniture, ‘white goods’ and consumer electronics by helping them solve their financing needs.” This is poppycock. Here’s the rub.

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CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day. Abraham Lincoln who only had one year of formal education credited his appetite for reading with his success. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Do I have your attention yet?

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Resist the urge to escalate problems to senior management. Matrix teams depend on trust and teamwork.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The differences were dramatic. and historic lows in new capital investment.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Or you could find that your definitions of success for the role are radically different. Resist the temptation to tell your tyrant boss what you think of her on the way out the door. “Do Today, she’s the office manager for a personal finance firm, managing budgets, expenses, and operations. Look for development elsewhere.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In reality, Culture does not Trump Strategy, rather they work together to enhance the success of one another. My point was never to trivialize the importance of culture as it is a major key to creating sustainable success in any organization. Said another way: Great businesses are based on a Culture of Success. What say you?

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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. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8