Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus : October 23, 2010 at 7:20 am Raj, respect and belief are two qualities that are important to cultivate. Honestly – I can’t take credit because my writing isn’t my own. They are amazing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. The challenge of leadership is growing. Employee Engagement Leadership' Partnering with managers.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

As part of my new book, The Future Leader , I interviewed more than 140 CEOs around the world and asked them each to define leadership. My role in terms of leadership is to set the vision and to share it. Hans believes leadership is: “Ensuring that people have everything they need to achieve the missions of an organization.

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Definition Telecommunications CEO Motivation 365

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

While there were lessons to be learned about executing business disaster recovery plans and the positioning of Data Centres and telecommunications systems, Mr. Greenberg’s primary observations were less about that and more about the people, their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on. What about you?

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors. of Japanese C-suite executives were women.

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Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. Yet another would end a grueling day of work listening to jazz on a professional quality sound system installed in the basement.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. What qualities of culture and individual leadership allow some companies to endure where others crumble under the pressure? To answer this question, I turned to the history books and extracted 4 lessons from those who have succeeded and failed.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. While the hard infrastructure (reliable electricity, transportation and telecommunication) in small Chinese towns is usually fine, their soft infrastructure is often a big problem.

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Real Estate Telecommunications Collins Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Use this list of common qualities of the inner critic’s voice to help your people identify their critics. In doing this, you are introducing a powerful new idea: that readiness for advancement and leadership does not depend on an innate quality of confidence, but rather, on building the skill of managing one’s own self-doubts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Heres a simple but compelling example.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

For example, early cell phones were woefully unreliable, and their voice quality paled in comparison with land lines. Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have. We all have.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

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. Our conversation took place at the Institute of Coaching (a Harvard Medical School affiliate) Leadership Forum, held in October at IESE Business School.

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Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City gets a player of much higher quality than they could hire, and Tottenham Hotspur gets Caroll having the first team action so critical to his development. Of course, people are not the same as financial assets, but can you afford to ignore the potential value in cross-boundary leadership development, simply because it is rare?

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The latter group, or “meaning” group, spent more time on each image, earning 10% less, on average, than the “discard” group — but the quality of their work was higher. You’re distracted, and you might not even care about the work itself or the quality of the outcome.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well. It could never have happened unless leadership had the courage and competence to go to the source. Is this micromanagement?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

One of us (Fred) was invited to join one important board seat (Time Warner) in large part because his expertise in the highly regulated realm of health care could be applied to the increasingly regulated world of global telecommunications. So inventory those moments when your leadership success has been proven by your questions.

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Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. There is a culture of safety and quality, and patients are involved in their own care. So what can we do?

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. dollars).

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