Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

A vision statement is a road map of the company’s goals and the way that it will achieve them. That is not to say that the management is going to implement every suggestion they hear, but there needs to be an acknowledgement of the idea if you want them to keep coming. Co-Operation. Boost Morale With Activities. Ask Questions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. It could contribute to climate change goals or at least stop acting as a green boogeyman. It could contribute to climate change goals or at least stop acting as a green boogeyman. The goal is to reduce the emissions by at least 3.4

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties? If so, analyze and align with those situations, rather than with the fruitless ones. Analyze them by category, to see patterns.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency). This asset is, of course, alignment. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had achieved my goal of getting them to the door with their teeth brushed in record time. We all know how important it is to have goals, right? And not just any goals, but stretch goals. And not just any goals, but stretch goals. It's not that goals, by their nature, are bad. Compelling, right?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner. I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? What is wild thinking? Lidell, Buchanan. Absolutely.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

He elaborated (and I paraphrase), calling it just corporate jargon so senior management can tell people a bunch of feel-good stuff that they don’t believe. While competitive dominance and service excellence are nice goals for senior managers, they do not motivate frontline employees. A cause gets them out of bed in the morning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” The mattress store sales rep told me he did not have any information about that mattress because after the acquisition, they threw out the old customer relationship management (CRM) data.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

No matter what the strategic plan says, many of us are more attracted to something new that’s glittering on the horizon than we are to the goals that have languished on our to-do list for months. Will I still need to deliver on all my other goals too? nico piotto/Getty Images. Stay in close touch with your leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

And when you fall short of your goals, you need to know why. By handing operations over to the nonconscious mind — including high-level, complex operations like pursuing goals — we make productivity possible. This should be no problem; after all, who knows you better than you do?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Mine your backyard.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. What is that!?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

As Bill Gates once famously said , “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” Train managers. Identify who you can’t live without.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. Everything operated as its own unit. There was no sense of a larger purpose or united goal. What President Qubein does isn ’ t just basic MBWA (Management By Wandering Around, as coined by Tom Peters).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes. You must learn to live with — not avoid — polygamy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Efficient, uniform operations are table stakes in the modern business environment. Having perfectly designed and executed operations is an impossible goal, but it is one we must continue to strive for. It’s hard enough to keep operations efficient inside a company, but new regulations can present special challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.” Instead of allowing competing priorities, focus people on a few common goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Any HR manager using such a system needs to be aware of its limitations and have a plan for dealing with them… Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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