Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Film Human Resources Technology Maturity 150

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Understanding that each team member has a role in the company and their personalities need to match these roles can mean the difference between failure and success. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. Chief Financial Officer. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. A few of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Your title makes you a manager.

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Open-book Leadership Bond Executive Coaching 50

Tim Milburn

MAY 7, 2012

Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed. A team charter paves the way for collaborative success by providing clarity that builds trust and accountability. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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Team Construction Audience Follow-up 155

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Debbie Laskey has 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree. She developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Marketing options are greater than ever before. Question 2.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

in computer science and twenty years of management experience in tech companies; most recently, he had been the CEO of Novell. By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords.

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Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Share your biases and tell war stories of how your successes and failures shaped these biases. But are your resources truly applied as optimally as possible to your market opportunities in a way that best serves the total business?

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

While there are certain patterns important to all leaders – such as, a high people interest, specific leadership roles may require different motivational patterns to be successful. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., All behavior is motivated.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

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Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. By using another innovation management best practice, they analyzed their system and found that the opticians themselves were the most expensive piece. For more than half of India's citizens, seeing was a problem.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The speech resonated with me, so while serving as his lead researcher in 2001 and 2002, I returned to his classroom to hear it again. My own view is that there are three secrets to Christensen's success: 1. Like all professors, Christensen used his final class lecture to share broader observations and reflections.

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Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

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 success you achieve with analytics may even transform your industry, as we've seen in professional baseball.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. If they do, they need to enter the 21st century and understand that the communications specialty is just one aspect of an overall marketing plan.

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Marketing CPA Leadership Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. Many managers assume that they don’t need to tend to freelancers as much as they do regular employees—and there’s some truth to that, says Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and Drive.

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Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This means using direct observation, conducting practical experiments, and engaging directly with evidence, rather than relying on opinion, whim, and analysis alone (and, as a prior management consultant, I would include pure market analysis void of testing in this category). Markets down? Market hype? Competition severe?

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

People who study successful corporations — I'm thinking of Jim Collins , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Michael Beer , and many others — keep reporting that one important trait that most of them share is that they don't emphasize the maximization of shareholder value. They're a metric, not a goal.

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

We've seen the challenges of serving as lead integrator, project manager and IT operations manager for the Olympics grow over the last decade (our relationship with the IOC has been in place since 2002), and Atos has grown with them. Our success depends on our strengths in partnering and building on prior work.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. I''m not joining in.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. In one account alone, the improvements have driven $3.5

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Every successful comic has developed this way. In 2002, Google AdWords (a program that puts ads on Google's search results page and content sites across the web) changed everything. In 2009 Vitruvian's Joel McDonald was hired to manage a $1000/month AdWords account for a division of Mars, Incorporated. I own no Google stock.

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Advertising How To Media Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend. Moreover, engaged investors are in short supply.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. So we've found that the most successful open innovation partnerships are built when ideas are framed as "options." Know the risks and the costs.

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Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. Riding network economies to success requires not only getting big fast but also sustaining that size advantage over time.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Over the past several years, PARC — spun off as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002 — has reinvented itself as a font of innovation for Xerox and a variety of other organizations worldwide. As a result, collaboration is frequent, satisfying, and generally successful.

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Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. increased by over $300,000. and later that of MBIA Inc.

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