HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license.

Strategic Planning 81

Strategic Planning Real Estate Video Blog 81

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. They had lots of these projects.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. We had important new drugs and vaccines that we expected to bring to market over the next few years. billion in revenues.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. He now writes and speaks without waiting for the results of his pilot project.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 17

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

KW: I lost my job in the 2001 dot.com bust and decided to start my own consulting company. There is no reason women should not be participating especially when you note the research that companies make more profit and contribute more toward philanthropy when women are in leadership. We kept going. It is tell it like it is.

Project 240

Project Participative Workshop Commitment 240

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It may well be why so many (incompetent) men rise ahead of women to leadership positions, as Chamorro-Premuzic argued in a recent HBR post. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. And in leadership, perception is reality.)

Development 10

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Since we are often being moved along in a perpetual parade of tasks, projects, and problems, emails, texts, and crises, we often lose sight of the people whom we lead. Whatever your leadership role in your company, you can begin to close the respect gap by infusing more respectful behaviors into your work profile. Set Expectations.

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Report Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

This position also meant that governments were continually intervening in markets with price-setting and regulations, as well as with government ownership. One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. There were a lot of things we changed, from the leadership team to package design — you've read about those. Perhaps you've heard the story.

Company 15

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock. It turned out that we had won considerable market share during this period because all our projects stayed on track.

Senge 9

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. The research firm IDC and trade association CompTIA project the worldwide information technology sector to reach $3.8 That was in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001. They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8