Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 24, 2016

Your time is better spent on your areas of passion and skill. Gerber Many of us go into entrpreneurship as a great technician, thinking that we can run our own business and easily reap the profits our boss does but often don't realize what the different skill set that it takes to run the operations of a business. ​ 13.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Sharing talents and skills. Helping others. Fostering respect.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. Running different “businesses” would impart different skills and knowledge. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p. Parents were patrons.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 10, 2011

Instead we had Anne-Marie Renaud (VP Operations for Pepsico Foods Canada); Simon Jennings (President, Olive Media) and Jerome Dwight (former President & CEO of BNY Trust Company of Canada, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon). The real skills that get you promoted?… Always keep learning and growing. it’s all about strategy, baby.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

For a full discussion of the historical grounding of their positions, I encourage you to read this column by Simon Schama in the Financial Times and this one by former George W. "  Whether they’re stated or not, most organizations have operating principles.  Bush speechwriter, Michael Gerson in the Washington Post.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2016

Things like: Being people first, compassionate, operating with empathy, or integrity. Some of the best leaders tend to operate best under duress. Leadership has always been a soft skill that people feel like it isn’t measurable. Simon Sinek – Leaders Eat Last. Simon Sinek – Start With Why.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The research used the Wardley mapping framework, developed by the LEF’s Simon Wardley, and applied it to the evolution of the IT organization. The Wardley mapping process enables organizations to better understand the competitive landscape they are operating in, and to see where to attack and where to defend.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At SERC, we very much focus on delivering excellence in terms of leadership skills and behaviours, which of course shapes the organisations that we can help and builds our economy. Highly commended: Dr Godwin Simon CMgr FCMI, whose approach to healthcare is saving thousands of lives. Read more here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

But research suggests that people with low EQ, as emotional intelligence is often called, may not realize what important skills they lack. Yes, some people lack soft skills, but being hard on them is not the solution. Conversely, if you react in a negative way they will perceive you as a psychological threat and source of stress.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Identify the skills needed and create job positions or profiles. Filter individuals based on skills, experience, function, geography, reputation. Insight Center.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." We haven’t examined the broader theories that underpin our economy and that informed all of those ineffective fixes after the last crash. THE STORY BEGINS. Like us on Facebook.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Encouraged by evangelists like Simon Sinek , myriad firms like Nike, Adidas, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola are devoting real time and attention to explaining why they do. Storytelling is a skill that leaders can — and should — hone. The idea of “purpose” has swept the corporate world. Only narrative can do that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Many of you reading are likely familiar with Simon Sinek’s Start with Why. Of course, this approach first requires leaders to equip employees with the tools and skills to solve for the how. Great leaders give little input on the how. They must invest heavily in training to ensure employees are prepared to think through the processes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” It is a hard skill that should be required from the board-room to the shop floor.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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