Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to Change, part 1 of 2 explores the three different types of resistance frequently encountered when implementing a business change, how to recognize each type, and the actions change leaders can take to overcome each of these objections. Please consider voting for us on Podcast Alley by clicking here.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Why boards succeed or fail and how to make them better are critical questions for corporate governance. We conducted a study , recently published in the Academy of Management Journal , to learn more about a neglected dimension of board composition: the proportion of domain experts.

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Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Poly9 in Canada, and C3 Technologies in Sweden that are bringing in new skills.

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Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In an era where business keeps moving faster, it is no small wonder that resilience has become the new must-have executive skill. Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Have you noticed the rising chorus in the management literature proclaiming that work must have meaning? On this very site, for example, several authors have published research-based blog posts on how managers can create the conditions that support meaningful work. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness Work life balance'

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Call Center Telecommunications Stress Film 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). His work has shown how firms can use "frames" (the way in which prices are presented) to soften competition. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

More on: Managing yourself , Morale , Work life balance Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Next How to Turn Garbage into Gold Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. He wasnt a process manager. How can a company avoid Citigroups misstep and establish beforehand whether the CEO has the aptitude to lead process improvement? He wasnt a process manager. The company was too big for that."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning. Service companies might have a handful of clients that agree to be guinea pigs for new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s a question all top managers should ask: How can I make my sales force, which is one of the biggest and most important investments my company makes, perform more effectively?". Managing a sales force requires many difficult decisions. Improving sales force management is a huge opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. All businesses seek to control costs; they don’t need an economist to tell them why it’s important or how to do it. Economics and logistics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Talent Management. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Ken Powell of U.S.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Are you good at resolving conflicts with people, or are you willing to work really hard to learn this skill? But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. How many moments of your life are you willing to trade for money? * * *.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Leaders need to focus on how to create meaningful targets that use the best of each approach. Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. A desire to develop by acquiring new skills and mastering new situations is a fundamental element of learning agility. Ask for feedback.

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Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Divani (not her real name) is a senior analyst at a large telecommunications firm. And they are by no means confined to management roles. Do you spend time behind the scenes, managing politics and influencing decisions so others are protected? His manager was a star with a great track record. Mark Chussil.

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Stress Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Many senior managers desire — and are qualified — to join a board. So how can you, a promising potential new director, realize your aspiration? What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Ask their advice on how to improve your profile. Earning trust.

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Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. So heres how to craft your own reflection items. On the odd occasion most boardrooms reflect, reflection often starts with "how." If thats what to reflect on, here are a few tips for how to reflect better. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Management has its finger on the pulse of the company, aware of every crisis-induced quickening. It was a disappointing outcome and they wanted to know how to fix it, or if they should maybe just toss it out and invest in a new platform. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Insight Center.

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Technology Tools Telecommunications CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc.

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