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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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

For me, this includes eating “cleaner” – more whole foods, less processed, etc. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! I try to take a few minutes every day to be alone with my thoughts and to process what is going on around me. What is that!?” Focus, Always.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration and requires minimum experience of 1,500 hours of flight time, 500 hours of cross-country flight time, 100 hours of night flight time, and 75 hours of instrument operations time. The second question to ask, then, is how important it is to capture user data in the wild.

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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. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

That’s a lot of data — too much for most companies to process. And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” The company used to focus on aggressive sales goals — specifically, generating 200,000 new credit card customers per month.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

And when you fall short of your goals, you need to know why. I've often made the analogy that if our nonconscious mind's processing power is like that of a NASA super-computer, then by comparison, our conscious mind can handle roughly the contents of a Post-it note. Why would our brains work this way?

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In what broader culture and environment are you operating and what are some of the overarching challenges and opportunities? Meetings are often put on the calendar without a particular goal in mind — simply to hold the time — and, as a result, the cart often drives the horse; people meet simply because they feel they must.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

But what if the company’s goal was never to unleash the disrupter itself so much as to encourage incumbent broadband providers to do so, helping Google’s expansion in adjacent markets such as video and emerging markets including smart homes? Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

services such as Kickstarter (and others including Indiegogo and Rockethub ) have operated on a donation model. If the project goal is reached, Kickstarter collects the pledges from backers, taking a 5% cut before turning over the proceeds to the organizers. And that process has only begun. Up until now, at least in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Facebook has grown over the years, which means the process of identifying and communicating with members of the security team can be challenging. We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center. Recognize and reward engagement.

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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.” His goal today? “To

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Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

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. Processes and tools for understanding root causes. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. Is your data set sufficient to reduce statistical variation?

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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

JANUARY 23, 2018

Passive AI/ML , by contrast, means the algorithms largely determine people’s parameters and processes for getting the job done. It fits too well with existing data sets and in turn becomes wildly inaccurate and/or unreliable when processing new data. The humans are in charge; they tell the machines what to do. People rule.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In reality, though, each step is fraught with psychological difficulties and organizational complications, making the process as much an exercise in rooting out unspoken assumptions as a mathematical exercise. Or by making process improvements? Setting the growth target. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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., for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” And it’s true – asking consumers to install a smart phone app to chronicle and interpret their own processes and rituals falls outside the realm of normal behavior. “And what we learned was sobering.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

By approaching the process with a realistic attitude, positive outcomes of future efforts will pay better dividends. These are often the worst violators of the process. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Categories of Networking Professional Networkers. Spot them and avoid them.

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