The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s seen as a measure of our productivity — even our worth. These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. I suppose it depends on whom you ask. Some will say service.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? ronkarr: Ten Things that Make Me More Productive from @wallybock. ohau8622: Tired of Being Middle Management? Look back, zero in on what worked and adjust your focus. Make Quarter 2 look like the best of Quarter 1. by @profkjmoore.

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Mintzberg Porter Micromanagement Middle Management 215

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter.

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Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? You might notice a competitor releases a new product at the same time year in and year out. Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 9, 2016

He is a CEO coach, consultant, keynote speaker, and chief launch officer for today’s critical cross-generational issues, bridging the gap between managers and their millennial workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity and profits.

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Consultative Creativity CEO Productivity 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. When you read a business book or attend a presentation on a particular management practice, it is a good habit to explicitly ask, “What might it not be good for?” With experience, firms increase the efficiency and quality of their production.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain. Scale economics has been one of the last bastions from the competitive storm.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Management writers — and leaders seeking to inspire — regularly reinforce it by using colorful metaphors from warfare and sports. Companies benchmark each other's practices and products. There is no best car.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. In Porter’s view , “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. McKinsey, of course, offers the most uncertain product of all: Strategy advice. Underestimate them at your peril.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. Paul Leinwand is a Partner at Booz & Company based in the firm’s Chicago office. He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

But it replaced one that had played music of the 1930s and ‘40s, prompting those customers who enjoyed classics from the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwins to cancel their subscriptions. If the changes are well received, you can expand and integrate them, and/or spin them out into a separate store, division or product line.

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. In retrospect, it seems inevitable. ” Actively lead operationalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. For a variety of reasons, we are not leading the world in creating innovative products, services, and processes in our businesses and workplaces." It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation.

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Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. It’s hard for employees to feel like they are doing more than managing numbers when they, too, are treated like numbers to be optimized.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees. Porter and Mark R. Some companies probably aren't managing with such issues in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious, yet ill-conceived PDA called the Newton. Wesson Wang. Value reporters time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

First off, our most popular podcast this year was Justin Fox's interview with Bob Pozen, " Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man." Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Wish You Worked Here: Beautiful, Productive Office Spaces. Audio podcast.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age. So what are we to do?

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community. All profits are not equal.

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Brand Porter Objective Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Letting go takes courage and is not a natural act for most humans, or management teams.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Monitor & Co., The very issues he had consultants gathering facts on.).

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

billion in agricultural production alone. The first corporate water footprint was jointly published by SABMiller and WWF in 2009, and since then Coca-Cola, Nestle, and UPM-Kymmene, and others have published footprints for key product lines. The economic cost of the drought has been incredible; Texas lost $5.2

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. This is an experiment that Harvard Business School’s Leslie Perlow and Jessica Porter repeated over a century later with knowledge workers.

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Company Stress Porter Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. Before mass production, no organization had achieved or could achieve the kind of scale the industrial revolution enabled.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

A second, more radical solution is to create budgets and authority for a service line or integrated practice unit (IPU) that manages a patient’s entire treatment for a high-volume medical condition. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. These are companies like Hooven-Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio which provides labels for Tide and Mr. Clean products. from offshore. from offshore.

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