Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

How do you progress, let alone hold your position, against these headwinds? You can’t cement victories into your operating system, but you can cement behaviors. There is a time when you cannot change things, they will not get better on their own, and you need to take a sharp right turn to escape your predicament.

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Management Sharpe Drucker Learning-by-Doing 87

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March. We are convinced that markets — to the extent they are allowed to operate — working together with high-speed communications technologies, will significantly reduce the harm that could befall us.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Unlike 3D films made for the cinema or stereoscopic televisions operating with glasses, such 3D displays require proprietary content combining as many as eight discrete images. Another technique uses a unique eye-sensing technology that constantly senses the position of your eyes and delivers a bright, clear 3D image to each one.

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Technology Content Video Globalization 102

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Now to be clear, leaders by default do operate with some form of authority, usually as a result of their position within their organization.

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Influence Leadership Power Sharpe 276

RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He was doing one of the critical things that I think all new managers should do any time they move into a new leadership position – talking to key people and listening to what they have to say before making decisions about direction and focus. Get a notebook and a sharp pencil, and get started. Seek First to Understand.

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Management Covey Learning-by-Doing Sharpe 120

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

When it came time to cut the cookie dough to be placed in the baking pan, her mother got a shocked look as I confidently handed her seven-year old daughter a sharp knife. How do partner-leaders carry out their “in charge” positions without power and authority being the medium of exchange? The sound of confidence was more than obvious.

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Hotels Greenleaf Compliance Guidelines 150

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you advocate a position, whoever is listening is voting in their head. And, you operate in a fishbowl. If you are tired, overworked or rushed, you are making mistakes and the power of your position amplifies the negative impact of those mistakes. They either agree or disagree. Founders tend to be wildly passionate.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 201

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Maintains a positive and professional tone in all communication. Acts as a positive role model for effective communication within the organization. Even if you’re not in a formal leadership position, you can still demonstrate leadership qualities in your work and make a meaningful impact on your team and your organization.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 30, 2015

For example, when an ad agency team enters a client’s conference room to pitch an account, they’ve already honed their presentation, researched the client’s biases, and rehearsed sharp answers to deflect any pushback. They imagine the positive emotional temperature in the room when they’re finished—and then design their pitch to create it.

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Environment Succession How To Video 70

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate. Michael Fraccaro is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Helps leaders understand their Personal Identity to facilitate positive change in leadership behavior. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Mark Brouker.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. ruble volatility) and policy (e.g.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

We define success in a straightforward way: satisfaction with your job, respect for your expertise, and a senior-level position. It’s impossible to prove through data analysis whether these strategies got these women ahead, or whether achieving a more successful position allowed them to flourish in these ways.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing? Bebchuk, Alon Brav, and Wei Jiang, shows that in contrast to prevailing beliefs, the long-term effects of activist hedge funds are positive rather than negative. Daly, OP ; Sting ; Trudie Styler ; and myself.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

As Priya Anant, global head of vendor operations at Google, explains, “Sometimes team members see a dead end when it’s really just a sharp turn in the road.” By providing more positive feedback, you can help the team to envision their success and elevate their performance.

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Team Succession Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. These can evolve into group-level behaviors.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you dig-in your heels and prepare to defend your position to the death, all the while not really caring about how many casualties are incurred in the process? Most importantly, do you genuinely engage in pursuit of the truth, or do you just wax eloquent in an attempt to justify your opinion or position?

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Even if business leaders want to abandon the practice, it’s so firmly embedded in their operations that many think it can’t be done. But it requires the adoption of a whole new operating model. Some managers noted a sharp decrease in no-shows because associates could easily get someone to cover their shift.

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Retail Survey Operations Sharpe 8

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

She was playful, positive, hopeful, and carefree. If only we could retain a bit of that perky positivity. thinking that I'm a pretty positive, fun-loving guy; that time with my daughter illustrated to me how far I'm removed from the best of child-like faith and wonder. She was bright, big-eyed, cheery, and alert.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog 124

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Moreover, China itself is experiencing a sharp decline in labor’s share. And although superstar firms may have become dominant through competitive means, they may cement their position using methods that are less benign. Thus it’s unlikely that China is the main cause of the decline in the labor share in the West.

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Both companies today face a wide variety of significant questions about civil legal liability, size of damages/penalties, criminal actions by government, other adverse governmental action (affecting fitness to operate) and governance failures. Of course, the problems at both News Corp and Wal-Mart were deeper.

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CEO Committee Sharpe Report 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. The deal is the company would pay your tuition and commit to a position (with a promotion) upon completion of the degree. From: Sameer Hopskin.

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Reason for failing: You forget it’s all about the challenge.

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Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. That led others to want to join them, which in turn led to even greater success and more support, resulting in a positive feedback loop. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. There are now 1,800 positions, and they hire 12 to 20 more people each month.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Marketing strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow.

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Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

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Objective Safe Harbor Policies Analysis 12

Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The power of positivity and determination is immeasurable.”. By the grace of God and connecting with generous people, Ellen got to the chairman of Merck Sharp & Dohme, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. ” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. What an incredible story.

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Books Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Similarly, as Byron Sharp argues in How Brands Grow , the only way to build a successful brand is to reach new customers. Great brands operate the same way. You have changed me. Now I understand.” ” Movements gain traction when they attract new members.

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Brand Marketing Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

And with every hard hitting question, the team finds itself in a better position to make the right decision faster. The folks who are willing to ask and answer the tough questions are the ones who keep you sharp, keep you moving forward, and keep you honest. The future is far out, until it isn’t.

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Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. The results were amazing. That’s the power of shrinking to grow.

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