Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

It’s important to note that The Exchange was designed by mediators for managers. Managers learn a structure and skills similar to those mediators know and use, but it also takes into account managers’ responsibilities, both to their companies and their employees. Getting to that place starts with an honest discussion.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Construction Project 62

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

It’s one of my favorite chapters from my “More Human” book manuscript, a project that has yet to fully see the light of day (and that’s another blog post in and of itself, but I’ll save it for another time). Finally, I arrived in Kalispell and checked into my hotel. I looked out my window.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. With experience in the field of corporate and intellectual property law, Deborah provides insightful commentary on the benefits, barriers and who should consider incorporation and trademark registration.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments. the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, and has used her project management expertise to lead a job-skills assistance event with a team of volunteers each year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments. the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, and has used her project management expertise to lead a job-skills assistance event with a team of volunteers each year.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. The researchers behind this new study point out that recent work on RBV has focused on managers as the ones generating the revenue from the company’s resources. Sounds logical, right?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In 2003 van Stolk had the idea to create a “Turkey & Gravy”-flavored soda to be released around Thanksgiving. There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. Jones Soda was a small Seattle-based beverage company competing against Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. project to date was instigated by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The future of productivity is coming, and it will rely on Artificial Intelligence.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Having designed and managed innovation programs in a variety of settings, I know that a company’s innovation capacity comes down to its talent pool, and its commitment to building knowledge and competencies one individual at a time. Sometimes, this overconfidence results because managers know they have hired smart people from the start.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals. Even paid outsiders usually have plenty of other projects to work on, so mobilizers can’t just issue demands.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. Cisco managers will no doubt let us know in due course. Massive failures abound in the business world. Over-collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Circular discussions with management on how to increase forecasts ensued. No response. Five days later a second email with the words " gentle nudge " in the subject line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

When a blizzard hit Baltimore in 2003, the roundhouse roof of the B&O Railroad Museum collapsed, damaging the finest collection of historic railway artifacts in the country and breaking hearts in the global community of rail fans. People need to know that you are a human being and that you are hurting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. Lots of recruiters, hiring managers and industry networkers are hanging out on Twitter, swapping job leads and industry updates. Collecting business cards at conferences and mixers is arduous.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

In our project, we examined 4,600 randomly selected employees across 800 workplaces. Most of the statistical sources used by management researchers and labor economists do not record “asking” behavior, and do not record people’s motivations for refraining from asking. ” Older workers do so more often.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

But in 2003 ThedaCare leaders decided to focus on designing processes that consistently work better, reduce waste, and enable staff to better meet the needs of patients. There are typically five of these projects running every week. Leaders engage staff in intensive week-long process improvement efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” ” For 25 years, the jury has been out on whether disease-management programs from national payers can improve quality and achieve real savings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Even after more than 20 years of implementations, a study by Panorama shows that 53% of ERP projects still run over budget, 61% take longer to complete than anticipated, and more than 27% fail to produce the positive ROI expected. IT management' It''s true, in a sense, that enterprise computing is like a utility.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Another study, in 2003 , found that 35% of 911 calls from long-term-care facilities for patients in cardiac arrest were for patients with preexisting do-not-resuscitate orders. For example, prescription drug monitoring programs , which are electronic state-managed databases, track prescriptions for controlled substances on a real-time basis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2003, I went off and founded my own company, The Energy Project , with a broader mandate to help organizations do a better job of energizing, engaging, focusing, and inspiring their employees, not just by better meeting their needs physically, but also emotionally, mentally and spiritually. We agreed to collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this is only possible if the senior executives of our leading institutions are what Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, refers to as "tri-sector athletes" — leaders able to engage and collaborate across all three sectors. Jeff Seabright is a model tri-sector athlete but they come in many forms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 25, 2011

At the University of Michigan, more entering freshmen in 2003 came from families earning at least $200,000 a year than came from the entire bottom half of the income distribution. They include war veterans, single parents and immigrants who have managed to overcome the odds. At some private colleges, the numbers were even more extreme.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

And a former Fama PhD student, hedge fund manager Cliff Asness, argued at the time that even if his professor was right about the dot-coms, there clearly was a bubble in the equity of already established, already profitable tech companies. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' Asness sure seems to have nailed that bubble, huh?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Legal solutions are by their nature blunt instruments for managing uncertainty. Spam e-mails were made illegal by a 2003 federal law, but all that law has done is to provide lifetime employment for lawyers at the Federal Trade Commission. But maybe the company has evolved to the next stage of privacy management.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. The Double-Bind Paradox.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. It does not require the approval of your manager or CEO, and servant-leadership is within us and it’s about who we want to be and how we want to try to relate to other people. What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? Larry's work at Gonzaga Gonzaga 32:08.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. It does not require the approval of your manager or CEO, and servant-leadership is within us and it’s about who we want to be and how we want to try to relate to other people. What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? Larry's work at Gonzaga Gonzaga 32:08.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It has been successfully used in over 20 projects throughout Northern California including two residential projects currently under development. Poverty has fallen from 22 percent of the population to 7 percent between 2003 and 2009. The Use of Available Technology. Let's start with affordable housing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. The protoypical Skunk Works was Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects (ADP) unit , a group characterized by autonomy, secrecy, and an elite identity.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It began its lean journey in 2003 and has made considerable progress. Using evidence-based guidelines linked to the electronic medical record, the nurse manages the patient’s care progression, and the bedside pharmacist contributes to optimizing management of the medication. Follow a methodology. Involve the patient.

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Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. What if there's some orphan project hiding inside Microsoft that, if combined with something I don't even know about that's hiding in one of our research labs, would be good for both companies? HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. More >>.

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