Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Many years later I learned the technique for using black light technology. Using this as their premier presentation forum, these executives mapped out in stories and pictures staged changes that would be made over the course of a few years to keep the company solvent, productive, and thriving, not just surviving.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 5, 2013

The goodwill and more passionate relationship generated within the community translates into a far higher demand for our products and services, into more love and loyalty for our brand, and so into major contributions to the bottom line. Managing Productivity and Morale. Dr. Saad Al Barrak has been a pioneer of this Arab renaissance.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2011

The Millennial Generation or "Gen Y" - those born between 1984 and 2002 - are growing up during a confounding time rife with technological advances and unprecedented sharing and collaboration against an omnipresent backdrop of political tension, international conflict and economic uncertainty. .

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Tim Milburn

MAY 7, 2012

He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002). In addition, he has spent countless hours with hundreds of different organizations discussing the impact of collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Many people suggest that rates of new product introduction and adoption are speeding up, but is it really, across the board? The chart below, created by Nicholas Felton of the New York Times , shows how long it took various categories of product, from electricity to the Internet, to achieve different penetration levels in US households.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002). In addition, he has spent countless hours with hundreds of different organizations discussing the impact of collaboration. For more information please visit [link] and Amazon.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." He began work on The Great Stagnation by wondering why growth rates for median wages were failing to keep up with either those for the highest earners or with gross domestic product.

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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. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Productive paranoia : 10Xers maintain hyper-vigilance, staying highly attuned to threats and changes in their environment, even when — especially when — all’s going well. This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. They make their bold, creative moves from a sound empirical base.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. Poor organizational trust is also an indicator of lower cooperation, productivity, and sales (Davis, Mayer, & Schoorman, 1995; Davis et al., Improves productivity by improving morale.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

And since the software experience was standardized and controlled by Microsoft, consumers could have consistent product expectations regardless of the brand of the PC. After purchasing Compaq in 2002, the company drove a commodity strategy by consolidating purchasing power in its supplier network and focusing on retail channel execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. But who's telling it correctly?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The main case for trade, though, was always that it would improve overall welfare by allowing a greater variety of products to be produced more efficiently. But if they squeeze entire industries’ ability to invest or make it easy to rely on cheap labor rather than technology, the result could be less innovation, rather than more.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West. Global business India Innovation Product development' This is a serious mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

What is interesting is Google's philosophy of launching early and quickly, and their perhaps too-quick closure of some products. The product was announced with formidable press and very high expectations amidst the belief that it would revolutionize e-mail and other forms of communication. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

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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. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. based product and services businesses that also tended to manufacture and deliver their products via U.S.-based based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Are we going to have to work really hard to differentiate the product or products that result from the acquisition? Consider the pharma industry'sdeals standard practice of buying products or companies chasing known therapeutic targets. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Productive Paranoia. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. Empirical Creativity.

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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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Though there were empires and kingdoms, the gross world product (GWP) was largely flat. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. And that's a potential blow to advertisers for several important reasons: Shared experience shapes our perception of products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

The ads were effective because they focused on relationships among consumers, not the consumer-product relationship or the product itself. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' The ads were among the first to employ “advertising dramas.” T]his is an issue we will have to deal with eventually.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6%

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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. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Their answer?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

intelligence community has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that can sidetrack productive collaboration. Now that we have powerful electronic technologies for communication and coordination, teams can do their work much more efficiently at a distance. My research in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 In an industry characterized by intense global competition and major technological challenges, GM cannot afford to be held hostage by hedge funds in the name of “maximizing shareholder value.” million vehicles in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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