Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Previously I’ve written about how relational disconnection between NASA engineers and senior managers contributed to the fatal accidents of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. Connection makes us smarter, happier, more productive, and more resilient to cope with stress. As humans, we’re hardwired to connect.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a coexistent relationship that allows for considerable data to be generated that supporters believe drives productivity and allows organizations to find the optimum configuration of their facilities. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Experiences in VR may be a poor proxy for real life.”. Worth paying attention to?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. billion euro.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

In 2003, Jeffrey Dyer and Wujin Chu studied buyer-supplier relationships among eight major automakers in Japan, Korea and the U.S. The research also found the companies in the study that trusted each other were more likely to share valuable knowledge such as new product designs. Money, governance, curriculum, etc.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. It comes from hiring innovators focused on the big picture who can orient themselves within a problem and solve it without having their hand held the whole time. And that was Hastings strength.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. This was nothing short of an innovation blackout — it reminded me of the 2003 blackout that shut down business throughout the Northeast for a couple days and then had everyone scrambling to make up for lost time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Why we need Help to Hire One of the priorities of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is increasing productivity by boosting skills and getting the economically inactive, particularly the over-50s, back into work. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". How about new product introductions?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

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. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. Dr. Muhummad Yunus: Put poverty in a museum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

“Not all smart people work for you,” begins Henry Chesbrough’s classic 2003 HBR article on the merits of open innovation. Firms must find a way to tap into external knowledge and ideas to innovate. It suggests that to attract the most productive contributors, companies may have to give up more control over their project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. My prediction is that in the next five years, we’ll see a focus on people management catch on with the same enthusiasm that product management has in Silicon Valley and beyond. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify. Rule 3: Embrace constraints.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. In 1973, he was honored for his achievements as a coach. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

While the products might bring in steady revenues, the lack of any compelling market-creating offering has left Microsoft with a red-ocean heavy product portfolio—for which the company has paid a steep price. Strategy Competition Innovation' The truth is too many companies are paying a similarly steep price.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

There were also fairly rigid dress code requirements; for instance, if women wore skirts, we expected to wear pantyhose (and this was in 2003). I think because I found so many examples of innovative workplaces in the startup world, when I transitioned to working with startups I expected that to be the norm.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Collaborating horizontally to create customer value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. A major effort launched in 2003 will provide health insurance to everyone before the end of this year. Health systems are at a crossroads.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

These inventions, products, and businesses all started with an idea. Great ideas come in many shapes and sizes – whether it’s something as small as a new logo for your business or something as big as rolling out a brand new product. Soon his brand began to get mentioned in the national media, and his product began to sell out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. Some China specialists I interviewed in the country estimated that 330,000 new products are introduced every year in China. and around the world, just as we saw with non-digital products in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers. per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

She mentions ROWE (for results-only work environment), the management philosophy developed by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson in 2003 to reduce workplace stress and work-life conflict, and to spur creativity and innovation at Best Buy, while also maximizing productivity and growth. Did the employee hit promised targets?)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Virtually everything the company makes, and is thinking about making, is highly influenced by this huge team of footwear, product, fashion, store, graphic, interaction, and brand designers. Further, Nike was ranked the #7 most innovative company by Fast Company in 2014 , and the 13 th most admired company by Forbes magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Cuba has been mired in stagnation for nearly two decades , with the regime unable to generate higher productivity. Cuba currently requires billions of dollars in investment in communication infrastructure, an update to its dilapidated transportation network, and significant capital inflows into key productive sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. The introduction of iTunes in 2003 was disruptive relative to the big four music-recording labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Group, and Warner Music Group. But this time that’s not the case.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For agri-food and beverage businesses, fresh water is an essential ingredient in their production process. The Coca-Cola Company has a deep interest in creating sustainable sources of fresh water, as it takes over two liters of water to make one liter of product. Governments are often the stewards of water and regulate its use.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

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