Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. Where it replaces darkness, it creates four more productive hours per day. Children can get better grades; parents can start cottage industries. The lamp becomes a ladder out of poverty. 3,409,610 school-aged children reached with solar lighting. The Brownie Strategy.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

According to Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace report, “engagement makes a difference to the bottom line,” which can have an impact on productivity, profitability, customer service, turnover, and absenteeism. David Jones currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CardLab, a pioneer in the prepaid industry.

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Motivation Incentives Chief Executive Officer Absenteeism 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The most effective way to build a culture of transparency begins with those in leadership positions. It is the responsibility of the leadership team to develop an atmosphere in which there is balanced accountability and continuous improvement and this is everyone’s shared duty. Leaders must lead by example.

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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Neuroscience of Engagement Neuro Leadership Journal, 2009.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? He sells it door-to-door to surf shops. It’s a hit. It’s also a hit.

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Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Change management Leadership'

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The vital—though not-soon-to-be answered—question is whether Mr. Nadella brings the right leadership talents not only to run the show but also to grow the enterprise at the center of one of most turbulent and competitive frays on earth. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. Should your leadership development systems at least consider cross-boundary experience as an option?

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Honda quickly followed up by announcing a new release for 2013, a year ahead of the original plan. In 2004, Leidich, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The origination of the failed concept — his or not — did not matter. All that mattered was claiming ownership of the issue and charting a path forward.

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Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. It is currently at less than o.5%

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Unicorns are: Small in size. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. When the pseudonymous Robert Galbraith published A Cuckoo’s Calling in 2013, the novel sold about 1,500 copies in the first month.

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