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 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Strong support from company leadership drove membership to over 1,000 by the end of 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. Litter was still all over the street.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? Insight Center.

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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. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.". Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. First is staying power.

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