Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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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. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Great short-term gains but long-term prospects that are far less compelling. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Short-term adaptability and rapid response strengthen long-term planning. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. Working software over comprehensive documentation.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. Although Millennials long to connect, they are becoming increasingly frustrated in meeting that desire, in part because of addictions to smartphones and other media.

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Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work."

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The prevailing executive mind-set was "We take care of our people for life, as long as they show up every day and don't cause trouble.". So while the plan for change challenged long-held assumptions (among other things, it would require the elimination of 5,000 jobs, with more cuts likely to come), it was embraced by employees.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. The Future of Operations. million, were the largest in U.S. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. The sustainability and operating execs at LVMH talk openly about some of the challenges they face. ”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. In Morten T.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term. Latin America.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? As a hard-working employee, you will be measured by and rewarded for the long hours you put in at the office and the gym. There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym. Here, all are equal before the law of the squat rack.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., we have a responsibility to lead.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Given the number of unicorn firms in Silicon Valley, it might be tempting to think that tech companies are the ones running ahead in terms of productivity, while firms in more traditional sectors are left behind. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? corporation between 2001 and 2007. Certainly there were employees who performed poorly over time, and they tended to get fired.

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Performance Review Review Long-term Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Thus the further out the fruits of R&D, the less likely operating divisions are to conduct it. What’s behind the disconnect?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. The best companies see strategy less as a plan and more as a direction and agenda of decisions.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Q: How long does this process generally take? One of JLL’s main clients, Bank of America [BofA], told JLL in 2001 that it no longer wanted to deal with each of JLL’s business units independently.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. Sound familiar? One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. How is it going?".

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Executives never stayed long. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Accounting.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Not long after, you took aim at the coffee bean itself, ruling out the seeds that didn’t quite fit your strict flavour and aroma standards. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella.

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Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In terms of the capability to listen to, watch and keep tabs on what its citizens are doing, the East German government could not possibly have dreamed of achieving what the United States government has managed to put in place today. And yet, here we are. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It includes full-fledged exits by corporations like Clorox , one of the first corporations to cease its operations in the market in 2014 (to later be seized by the Venezuelan government), and companies like Bridgestone and General Mills , which sold their Venezuela businesses to local industrial groups and private investors, respectively, in 2016.

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Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8