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. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Get a notebook and a sharp pencil, and get started. Ask him about things like what his vision is, and how you and your team fit into that vision. Most teams will have a few people who seem to swing a bigger bat than the others – they have been around the longest, have a specialized skill set, or maybe they are the best connected.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

1 priority for the highest achievers today is to lead a personal and professional transformation for themselves and their teams. But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic. Here are four principles applied by some of the most successful (and most disruptive) leaders of the new world.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. 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. Often, they are quietly discussed among team members. How does this work?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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. What can you do to build your team? Propose a novel idea to your colleagues or the team members you lead.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet, once we acknowledge its power over us, we realize that forecasting the environment is necessary if we are going to achieve our goals. It’s not a Cloak & Dagger Operation! The good news is that the environment is not conducting a cloak-and-dagger operation. Let’s take a closer look at how to forecast our environment.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

.” My coaching clients seem to intuitively understand how this mindset has helped them get past bumps in the road and achieve their goals. They want the same results for their team members and often ask, “How do I get them to think this way, too?” Reframe the team’s narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky. These attributes are among the most important predictors of team success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank.

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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 25, 2018

You and Your Team Series. When cross-departmental rivalries get heated and conflicts arise, I’ve frequently seen companies turn to team-building events or motivational speakers who talk about trust. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap. Why We Fight at Work. Annie McKee.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. The goal: Help patients clarify and document their care preferences, communicate those preferences to providers, and then oversee their preferred mix of medical and nonmedical care, ensuring they receive no more and no less than they want.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I grew with the team, and played a big role in many of our successes … and failures. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. ruble volatility) and policy (e.g.

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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.". And from the CSG sales team, we can imagine the feelings, "We are trying to do the best for HP and for customers. The alternative looks enticing.

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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

On January 3, Kahn Academy announced that Vi Hart would be moving to Mountain View and joining its team. Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. I think his real goal is to work more closely with you at headquarters? If he works hard for a few more years I can see him on my team.

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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

He had led a team that created several prototypes for Apex. 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. With Lin's approval, Wang had gone as far as to lead a team in building one specifically for Blue Sky.

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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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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. She knew speed was critical.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The authors, an American team consisting of a legal academic and a communications professional who have long urged nationalization of U.S. Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. Availability.

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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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