The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Entrepreneurship is something we traditionally associate with large cities. Cities and hubs benefit from the concentration of talent and resources in one place. Things aren’t quite that straightforward, however, with research highlighting how entrepreneurship can flourish in small towns as well as big ones.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Innovation Transportation Policies 93

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

Of course, as much as we might be eager to set our sights ahead into 2017 and envision all the possibilities and goals we might achieve, it’s worth taking the time to look back on the year that was and what we learned along the way. But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership?

Leadership 260

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Long-term Blog 260

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 26, 2012

Whenever we think about our experiences serving on a team, our perceptions of whether it was a positive or negative experience is often gauged in terms of the people we serve with; of whether we found those team interactions collaborative or antagonistic.

Team 240

Team Development Committee Report 240

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. How you and your team are seated is important: The best way of encouraging dialog is to sit in a circle or to be seated at a round or oval table.

Environment 176

Environment Team Greenleaf Maslow 176

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 10, 2017

Leaders can get in trouble when we begin to judge by appearances. How people perceive you, much like a leader may make a snap judgment based on appearances, impacts your effectiveness in leadership. How people perceive you, much like a leader may make a snap judgment based on appearances, impacts your effectiveness in leadership.

Leadership 171

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Training Power 171

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they don’t know how to get there. ” The problem is that, when hiring, evaluating, or promoting employees, we often measure people against our implicit assumptions of what talent looks like — our hidden “template of success.” PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. When I looked over the list of seven, I asked myself “How do you leverage those?”, How do you envision readers applying what they learn from your book? and skill 8 was born.

Skills 181

Skills Books Blog Mentor 181

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. It is much too rare that we stop to enjoy what has gone well. Jake Nady : November 15, 2010 at 8:34 pm How about “not ignoring&# or “trusting&# ?

Leadership 257

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 257

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But what is most fascinating is how badly overlooked he was by both old school talent scouts as well as nouveau 'moneyball' experts. All big firms have hidden $100 million opportunities —a business, brand, market or leader that is overlooked and under-resourced with untapped upside. Do you remember Tang?

Brand 13

Brand Metrics ROI Self-aware 13

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Follow through and let those who helped you know what you did and how successful it was. Inadvertanly, we have become a team helping each other out when needed. Set them up.

Delegation 154

Delegation Learning-by-Doing Blog Mentor 154

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are turning to an overlooked pool of entry-level talent: the 5.5 Sourcing eager talent is just part of the new equation. Across the U.S., Sourcing for Commitment. Screening In for Aptitude.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

The new owners sent their US team to participate in a strategy session, a discussion of where this Chinese subsidiary believes its market is heading and how it must respond to new and mounting competitive threats. In essence, perhaps without recognizing it, the Americans slighted them without even knowing how or why.

Globalization 15

Globalization Participative Marketing Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies. Here’s how: Managing the Network’s Center.

Agility 15

Agility Team How To Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The best way to train employees to defend against hackers is to teach them how to think like one. They think in digital terms and have the curiosity and drive to figure out how technology works. When there’s an incident, they should debrief a broader group on what happened and how they responded. Insight Center.

Training 8

Training Software Groupthink Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” They start with a group of people they seek to employ, then work on finding a sustainable business model that leverages their talent and experience. Friedman wasn’t changing how the product was made (e.g.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

But there will be a limit to how far computers can replace human capabilities, at least in the near long term. What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. How does the consumer feel?

Company 8

Company Creativity Outsourcing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What project gets the top talent? Both sides have a reasonable point of view, but if they can’t engage in respectful conversations about how to balance this tension, it can metastasize. Here are some that we’ve found useful: First ask: What are the core strategic imperatives that should govern this decision?

Project 11

Project Consensus Learning-by-Doing Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Many women have worked hard to take gender out of the equation — to simply be recognized for their skills and talents. We find that when women recognize the subtle and pervasive effects of second-generation bias, they feel empowered, not victimized, because they can take action to counter those effects.

Education 9

Education P&L Constraint Participative 9

Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

It took him about an hour to learn how to ride it without tumbling into the shallow surf, but he soon had mastered it and was doing twists and tricks by the end of the afternoon. His simple reply was, “we were just playing together, dad!”. And it alarmed me to consider how much his behavior emulated my own. My son didn’t know.

Skills 203

Skills Leadership Learning-by-Doing Bond 203

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

For any one of us, the "reality" of a situation is just what we choose to pay attention to. None of that is necessarily wrong, mind you, but if the recipe worked, one would think that after some 30 years of trying to replicate Silicon Valley elsewhere, we would see many thriving clones. We can tinker, re-design, and play with them.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? How many still believe they can make a difference? Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck.

Zero Based Budgeting 14

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

One of the cruelest aspects of how our labor market currently works is that one’s past hard work and successes can become the very thing that keeps one from finding a new job. From a policy perspective, this means that we need more than mantras about “more education is needed” to solve the ongoing crisis of long-term unemployment.

Long-term 10

Long-term Education Crisis Skills 10