Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

1. Get Organized. Before you begin down the path of execution, spend some time getting yourself organized by creating processes and checklists to help you stay on track. From a simple checklist, a spreadsheet, mind-mapping software, project management software, or software designed for goal tracking. About Todd Nielsen.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Succession is critical. What are the chances that the typical current CEO, most likely a baby boomer, is well positioned to identify all the characteristics of the organizations’ future leaders? The truth is that companies that only choose wise, experienced people for this task of succession are mired in myopia. Think about it.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In spite of some people’s best efforts to avoid it, conversations play a large part in a leader’s success. Do your people understand how what they do contributes to the success of the organization? Recent research indicates that between 70-95% of people do not know how what they do contributes to their organization’s success.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2021

Telecommunications scams have been increasing in numbers over the years, costing businesses over $32.7 Also, online VoIP service providers protect data using information security technologies, such as encryption and identity management. Consider the following reasons. Increased Data Security. billion annually. The Bottom Line.

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

Creating a coaching culture – where managers intentionally grow and develop employees – isn’t necessarily about providing a warm and fuzzy place to work. An International Coach Federation study found that organizations with a strong coaching culture: Score significantly higher on employee engagement scores.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

S uccessful organizations have leaders who exhibit the characteristics of both genders." Melissa Greenwell "You are leaving money on the table and forfeiting your strategic advantage if you don't have women well represented on your boards and seniors management teams," argues Greenwell. Establish a succession plan.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Traditional “bonds” between employees and organizations have changed. Employees no longer expect that their organizations will provide them with job security. Successful leaders will share people, capital, and ideas to break down boundaries.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. Dickens Jr.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. Calling these people ‘beneficiaries’ instead of users or customers sums it up.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

Greenberg’s primary observations were not about executing business disaster recovery plans or repositioning Data Centres and telecommunications systems but about the people in his organization; their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on. It is a business imperative. That’s what I think anyway.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Their definitions were all over the board and included things like leaders being able to drive business success and reach goals to human skills like connecting with people and being humble. One of the main themes was that people believe a successful leader is someone who makes money and grows a business. All else is footnotes.”.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

"Organizations will pay significant consequences if they don't work openly, honestly and proactively with government and society. The authors want to put these at the center of business -- both because it's right and because success in business is inextricably linked to sustainability. The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Simply click on the link above to download your copy of this remarkable ebook on effective change management. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Those who benefit from collaborations, rather than become the victim of them, will log the biggest successes in business years ahead. Non-profit organizations banning resources for programs or fund-raising.

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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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For the first time after China's economic reforms began, CEO succession is threatening to become a major problem, particularly for globally competitive companies such as Haier, Huawei, and Lenovo. 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 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools. For most organizations, the question shouldn't be "What's the most innovative thing we can do?" Cisco is an easy company to admire. Smartphones were becoming smarter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Norwegian telecommunication firm, Telenor, has been in the news recently as it tries to sell its Indian joint venture with property developer, Unitech Ltd. Clearly, India is an attractive telecommunications market for international players. This level of engagement placed too many stresses on the Uninor partners.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networked” organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

While this graying of the Boomer generation certainly has implications for health care and social policy (and for me personally, as one of those eventual retirees), it may have even more significance for the nature of the workforce and the job of the manager. First, there will be a shortage of workers for key jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. Cloud-based analytics made it possible for organizations to acquire massive amounts of computing power for short periods at low cost. Of course, not everything is different.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. The board can also continue to ensure the success of leapfrog leaders after their ascension to the CEO role.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

What role does he or she play in the organization? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager.

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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. Deliver a microcosm — not a “phase one.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

But what if speed is the wrong measure for success? Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. If we rethink corporate success as survival in the face of rapid, globally competitive change, then here’s the question: what does it take to sustain competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

We interviewed 24 CEOs and asked them to name the biggest challenges facing their organizations. Given that CEOs set the tone and priorities for their organizations, it is important to understand what they interpret as the major challenges and opportunities. Talent Management. What keeps them awake at night?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But as the tech wave has continued to sweep the globe, the environment for all organizations, including non-tech ones, has shifted from stability and predictability to rapid, unpredictable change. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

We even hear it from our clients in the international market, such as regional telecommunications companies, who see a "unified user experience strategy" like Apple's as a sign of status. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

One problem that constantly recurs in changing organizations is what we might call the last mile dilemma. The term comes from the telecommunications industry, which struggled for many years with how to efficiently extend their networks the "last mile," or into individual homes.

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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?". The sales force is perhaps the most highly empowered organization within most companies. Managing a sales force requires many difficult decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. Is the balance right in your organization?

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