Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They gathered data from performance reviews, past projects they worked on, and looked at the roles and responsibilities they had within the organization. They were those individuals you would find pitching in to help out regardless of the project in order to ensure the company reached its goals. Succession: Are You Ready?

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

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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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

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. On average, those projects generated enough financial savings to pay back the loan in just three years.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Another project, FeedMe , learns what web content a user's friends like to hear about and then helps the user share content with them.

CIO 14

CIO System Project Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Technology will affect them, but the impact will take longer and may be less deep than other areas.

Retail 14

Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 14

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 were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Apple has autonomous car projects and AI-based speakers in the works. Heck, Siri actually came first.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

” Scrum methods enabled him to finish his seemingly impossible project on time, under budget, and with fewer bugs than any previous release. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

And collaboration technologies like shared calendars too often create a chock-a-block schedule of meetings, many-sided conversations, and a tangled skein of emails, IMs, and tweets. Are there any projects where all three elements above exist and you're not collaborating? You can't rush it and it's not free.

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. Question: Where do you see the Deep System at work in your company?

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. The Indian job market was growing significantly because of an influx of positions in the technology sector. Twitter also proved to be very useful.

Enterprise Architecture 11

Enterprise Architecture Information Technology Skills Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

It was interesting, therefore, to run across an analysis of Google's failed projects over time, together with a quote issued by the company regarding each failed venture. Google Catalogs (December 2001 to January 2009). In highly uncertain environments, failures are both useful and unavoidable.

Succession 15

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Sales reps, meanwhile, were freed up to spend more time on larger project sales. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results.

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Team Price B2B Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. 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.".

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. All decision-making is done through self-managing teams of 8-12 people: hiring, pay, which projects to work on, everything. In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail.

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Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Two things happened in the intervening years.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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. But at the heart of most of these models are two things: forming hypotheses (e.g., Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8