CO2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. “Yes, I can do that for you over the phone right now.” “Yes, Yes, I can add that to your order.” The result? Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my top blog picks for the week June 7th - 13th, 2010.  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 16, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! John Hunter, Curious Cat Management : Interruptions Can Severely Damage Performance - John calls attention to a common and serious threat to employee performance that is often overlooked or unrecognized: interruptions throughout the workday.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The successful entrepreneur knows how to manage those fears, and understands that failure can just be another step on the road to success. You Have Trouble Managing Stress Running your own business, especially in the early days, is hard. This added overhead can be worthwhile if you manage to raise enough, but it's still worth noting.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Lina Echeverría spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies, that provided the world with everything from the optical fiber that enabled the Internet to the tough glass used for iPhones.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

For example, wild herds of horses share the leadership role of the herd, and different horses step into the leadership role depending on the situation the herd finds themselves in. Review priorities of each C-suite member and determine how they can have a broader impact on the organisation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As a group, we saw the need to fully embrace technology in a way that would easily allow skilled volunteers to transfer their knowledge to our partners in Africa. Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems.

Technology 8

Technology Class Engineering Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I've offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman ; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. A simple tip for a manager is to stand while you're at your desk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Information & technology IT management Risk management' Like many people, I felt horribly vulnerable when I read about the Russian hackers who had stolen 1.2 billion user name and password combinations from companies big and small.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

That’s bad news and worse management. In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. For the most part, local managers followed the yield management rules.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Just as it’s hard to remember what life was like before the iPhone, it can be hard to remember business before there was CRM software — back when you still had to explain that it stood for “customer relationship management.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. The worry," according to the Tech Review, "is that automated bots could be designed to significantly influence opinion" about such things as politics and products. Wishful thinking.)

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! &# To know what you need, determine your strengths and strategize to supplement your weaknesses. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Managers must learn to trust models that they don’t fully understand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

.” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all. fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

But when the two of us began compiling HBR's Insight Center on Customer Intelligence , and thought about what managers find scary about customer intelligence, we came up with a much broader range of concerns. Larry Downes ( Unleashing the Killer App ) offers his view on how that might play out, and how it should.

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Stephenson Customer Loyalty Wilde Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience. That’s not a great customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. Is CDO the next step for the aspiring CIO-Plus?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

I don’t mean a few quarters of sluggish growth or a one-time product flop, but a radical shift in its market, a major technology disruption, or a disastrous strategic bet that threatened the company’s very existence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

At a recent conference, Dell founder Michael Dell spoke of the billions of patients who received better health care and the billions of students worldwide who had access to better education as a result of Dell’s information technologies. Reward inspirational leadership as much as effective task management. Managing people Motivation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning. Indeed, measurement is much more difficult than most managers appreciate. Managers must protect themselves by understanding weaknesses in measurements and taking these weaknesses into account as they use them. It should be trustworthy, right?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Technology is changing every facet of work, including how companies profile and select their employees. As with many other innovations in the space of HR technologies, evaluating claims about the accuracy of this method is difficult until independent academic research has been conducted. That is not enough. Not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

We don''t even need to predict which one of these new technologies will capture the public''s imagination. Our editorial processes and content management tools encourage us to treat web pages just like the familiar model of a print document. Communication Internet Technology' Some will fail, but certainly some will succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. It could create increased autonomy through self-knowledge, and revolutionize, again, management, and the way they live and work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed. In the early 1970s it became clear that the most effective way to find a job through networking was to be in touch with as many weak ties as possible.

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Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models. This is the second post in a three-part series.

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