Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. You can count on opposition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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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.

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