Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

Reinforce a “team-first” mindset – Seek opportunities to pair employees up on project or decisions. Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018. Free employees to do their jobs and to make decisions.

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Open-book Leadership Bond Executive Coaching 50

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I was going to quit to move to Ohio and marry my husband, who had left Basic Research at Bell Labs to teach Physics at Oberlin College, he pulled strings with HR and his counterpart at AT&T for our project (and my next boss) so I wouldn’t quit. This was from 3Q1996 to when I quit in 2001. The benefits last decades.

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Management How To Mentor Politics 91

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Bryant for The New York Times (March 12, 2001) in which he focuses on a plan that Google code-named Project Oxygen in early 2009. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Laszlo Bock of Google says its study found [.].

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Reinforce a “team-first” mindset – Seek opportunities to pair employees up on project or decisions. Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018. Free employees to do their jobs and to make decisions.

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Bond Open-book Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 65

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 11, 2013

He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as Research Director for Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2001, he launched the Allophilia [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2015

I had worked with the founder Robert Green on a project and I thought it would be fun to join him and his wife Annabelle in their new company (Robelle = Robert + Annabelle). It was 2001 and the whole tech sector was melting down with the end of the dot com era. No one told me that startups were risky. A Life Adventure.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Here are just three examples: In his original 1997 letter Bezos states, “We will share our strategic thought processes with you when we make bold choices (to the extent competitive pressures allow), so that you may evaluate for yourselves whether we are making rational long-term leadership investments.” Jeff Bezos. It remains Day 1.”.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

In 2001, when I had actually decided to retire from “corporate life”, my company asked me to consider a change in direction, rather than a departure, by taking the role of Global Head of HR. I am delighted and honored that he accepted my offer and that I am able to share his wisdom with you here. Guest Post by Les Hayman. About Les Hayman.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2010

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. That’s why we’re so committed to releasing all of our projects as open-source.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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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. Spanish flu).

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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. Spanish flu).

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. Unfortunately, the son had no fire in the belly. I attributed this to growing up in a family where everything was given to him. He had never had to strive.

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Strategic Planning Real Estate Video Blog 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Why aren’t Asian Americans advancing into leadership positions? Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 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. By way of context, in 2001 we delivered $1.6 Leadership' How was Ciena doing when you became its CEO?

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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.

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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. On the other hand, analysts were skeptical of the pipeline, and some were calling for new leadership of the company. billion in revenues.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

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. They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Heck, Siri actually came first.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. Given that group membership is such a deeply rooted part of human nature and organizational success, a central element of leadership is the management of group identities. In short, great leaders are “ e ntrepreneurs of identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

Are there any projects where all three elements above exist and you're not collaborating? How does collaboration work in your organization? Thomas is the executive director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance and professor at Brandeis University International Business School.

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Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. My teaching focuses instead on "performance," "results," and "leadership." The time has come.

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Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

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.

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Commitment CEO Report Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

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.)

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Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

As Michael Roberto, the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University, said in his 2001 HBR article " What You Don't Know About Making Decisions ", "all too often [decision-makers] rush to a conclusion or else dither endlessly and decide too late." Bryan knew they had to get out or radically change the way the project was going.

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How To Self-aware Case Study Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

We move into negative emotions — what we call the "Survival Zone" in our work at The Energy Project — when we feel a sense of threat or danger. When Conant took over as Campbell's CEO in 2001, the company's employee engagement scores were among the worst of any Fortune 500 company Gallup had ever polled.

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CEO Bottom-up Energy Stress 15

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. 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. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year.

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Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The research firm IDC and trade association CompTIA project the worldwide information technology sector to reach $3.8 Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. That was in 2001. trillion this year. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.). billion in 2019.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2005, Chavez supported an oil pipeline project that would link Venezuela's oil to Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders. Chavez lent Argentina enough capital to pay off these loans.

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Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate.

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

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.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Paula encouraged me to talk with Paul because he “is the real thing when it comes to global business leadership.” The company had been without a CEO for nine months, the earnings and stock price were in the tank, good people were running for the exits, and multiple projects in recent years had failed. And in 2001, profits jumped to $2.2

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