Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

The Extreme Leadership Summit puts attendees in front of leadership experts who are in the trenches everyday, walking the talk. The Extreme Leadership Summit puts attendees in front of leadership experts who are in the trenches everyday, walking the talk. Jay Jay French of Twister Sister to deliver a keynote address at Summit.

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Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits? But this post isn’t all about me and only my advice.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

The average BMI for companies with more than 5,000 employees was 75. Of the respondents who reported a BMI of less than 40, three-fourths worked in organizations with fewer than 100 employees. Of the respondents who reported a BMI of less than 40, three-fourths worked in organizations with fewer than 100 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

The consequence is what we call “complicatedness,” which spells trouble for a company’s productivity and leads employees to feel frustrated and to disengage. Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment.

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Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry. It has put customers, not companies, in charge. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

Outside vendors hawk the power of black-box models to crunch through unstructured data in search of cause and effect relationships. Some of those pioneers achieved impressive results, and before long a wide range of organizations were harnessing the then-new planning tools and frameworks. The answer, simply put, is to develop a plan.

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Planning Strategic Planning CIO Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Leading through dominance means influencing others by being assertive and leveraging one’s power and formal authority. In the case of dominance, employees usually have little choice but to follow the leader; when it comes to prestige, deference to the leader is more negotiable.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

“This gives them the ability to influence change on this issue in a unique and powerful way.” “This gives them the ability to influence change on this issue in a unique and powerful way.” For the first time in the history of Davos, LGBT rights made the official agenda at the World Economic Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. As companies introduce software bots and digital self-service, and as they transform assembly lines, they must bring along their key employees, leaders, and customers as they redefine jobs, career paths, workforce management, and social contracts.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Companies such as IBM, Apple, Toyota, and Fidelity have demonstrated an interest and appetite for deep research and innovation by introducing AI platforms and solutions for customers, partners, and employees. During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leaders know that culture is often the key to their organization’s success whether they’re trying to enhance employee satisfaction, boost productivity, or launch a new initiative. But all too often, they assume it will take care of itself. Culture is a process of collective learning and adaptation. It’s dynamic and always on the move.

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Succession Environment Learning-by-Doing Innovation 133

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Robots entered our workplace a long time ago: as co-workers on manufacturing assembly lines or as robotic workers in hazardous situations, such as the Mars rover. Courtesy of Norbert Guthier. We also wanted to see, of course, whether a robot could hitchhike across the country, relying only on the goodwill and help of strangers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Trends like the pervasiveness of mobile, the near-infinite storage and computer power of the cloud, and new methods of analyzing masses of data are not just important in themselves. Mobile applications keep track of our response times. Companies learn which buttons we like to press and which we don’t. Consider entertainment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In an upcoming book and in a recent article in Harvard Business Review , my coauthor Christopher Zook and I identify the qualities of “the founder’s mentality” and show how all organizations, even those whose founders have long retired, can harness its vitalizing effects. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

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