Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

I recently met with a group of HR professionals and line managers to debrief employee termination situations. Emotional instability – Part of being a mature adult is being able to manage your emotions and it’s critically important in a professional workplace.

Follow-up 52

Follow-up Maturity Guidelines Document 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They break under stress. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer "anti-fragile" — that is, they get stronger when stressed? Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

With wage inflation already eroding China's ability to compete on labor costs, I don't see much evidence that Chinese entrepreneurs are capable of generating profits through core competencies , as companies in mature economies do. In other words, everyone thinks his or her country and situation is unique — but that's not true.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Core Competence Stress Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Surveying thousands of people across countries and industries to explore the relationship between self-awareness and several key attitudes and behaviors, like job satisfaction, empathy, happiness, and stress. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images.

Self-aware 20

Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. Nearly every market today has matured to the point where there is very little difference between the features, functions, and specifications of the competitive products. No Decision. The real enemy of salespeople today isn't their archrivals; it's no decision.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications Price CRM Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Should managers on meds oversee delicate or complex operations? But as someone who has suffered, sometimes silently, from a mental illness for more than 30 years, I can speak personally about how it can be managed on the job. Like many people with a mental illness, I don’t handle stress well. Am I happier now?

Insurance 8

Insurance Stress Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. It is something of a boot camp for scientific entrepreneurs like Etosha.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We surveyed more than 2,500 managers, from 1,000 companies, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies and 70 organizations ranked at the top of Universum’s “World’s Most Attractive Employers” list (a ranking of company preferences among university students in the top 12 economies).

Globalization 8

Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. Nearly every market today has matured to the point where there is very little difference between the features, functions, and specifications of the competitive products. No Decision. The real enemy of salespeople today isn't their archrivals; it's no decision.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Price CRM Long-term 9

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I loved my job so it made the long hours manageable, but it was also stressful. I don’t operate that way. It may sound crazy, but I just feel like I have matured and the person I am becoming is actually someone I am much more proud of. Your job becomes your priority, and everything else takes a back seat.

Training 70

Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.” Market maturity: Salespeople in mature markets focus on protecting business with existing customers, while salespeople in growing markets tend to focus on new customer acquisition.

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8