RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They made you a new manager. Whatever you did to become a new manager is probably not enough to help you be successful there. In this post I’ll give you six things to focus on in your first week as a new manager so you can get started on the right foot. Get a notebook and a sharp pencil, and get started.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. It involves assessing an employee’s strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and providing feedback on their performance. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic. You can see the article here: [link]. BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure. You talk about the agile mindset and the CEO.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Provide examples on how you attract top talent and manage teams to achieve results.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Mark Brouker.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. By starting slow and building scale, Otpor could show, to their own members and the country at large, that they not only had clear goals, but that they were making progress against them. Otpor, on the other hand, created a movement that cascaded through the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

As McKinsey put it in a recent report: “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).” Or even using common sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Your goal is success. This won’t be a “Chief Customer Officer” or a “Customer Success Manager.” Management scale: As your team grows from a few to a few dozen, you’ll need to scale management. What to do. What not to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

The goal was to give each business unit greater control of its sales process, and in former CEO Mark Hurd's words, to "perform better — for our customers and partners.". But they often see only the benefits of the structure that they are not operating in. HP's dilemma illustrates one of many two-edged swords of sales management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

In other words, many of us operate on autopilot. ” In the attention economy, the ability to maintain focus and concentration is every bit as important as technical or management skills. Understand that mindfulness is not just a sedentary practice; mindfulness is about developing a sharp, clear mind.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The goal was to optimize decision-making all along the value chain and boost earnings by tens of millions of dollars. In many companies, teams seem to come together out of nowhere, grabbing any available resource, operating without adequate planning, and then fail to gel. The manufacturing company is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. Defining politics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. It also manages to explain complex arguments without oversimplifying them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He still talks about one senior manager—a man he’d spent years teaching the business to—who left a while back after taking an executive education program and being wooed away by one of our competitors. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Everything operated as its own unit. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Third, to be blunt, Blue Sky's engineers didn't seem all that sharp when it came to systems engineering. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. Yes, the Blue Sky managers said. One person wasn't smiling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

IT Manager, Long Island Board of Realtors. By the grace of God and connecting with generous people, Ellen got to the chairman of Merck Sharp & Dohme, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. ” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. Some think that the path to their goal should be easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Feeling cooped up in the executive offices and oppressed by the presence of the media, MacDonagle had gone outside to breathe some air — actually, some tobacco smoke — and had invited the sharp young program manager Samantha Van Sant to join him. Rapid ramp-up was a laudable goal," he said. This gave her a start.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

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