The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class. Interestingly, the answer seems to be yes, as when political misalignment occurred between 2004 and 2019, cost overruns were around 8% higher than when the procurement officers were aligned politically with the president. “In

Politics 91

Politics Analysis Bureaucracy Influence 91

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Today, Mr. Ortenzio heads his church’s ministry, Celebrate Recovery , to help addicts.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. TXRH, at the time I’m writing this, has enjoyed 32 consecutive quarters of positive comparable restaurant sales growth. The Managing Partner at each Texas Roadhouse has an ownership interest in their restaurant.

Taylorism 71

Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 71

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The self employed are widely viewed as being in a precarious position in a number of ways. But work just shifted and IT positions grew because we needed more support for our computers and networking.”. Now, a new study from the University of Buffalo also suggests that the self employed are more at risk of their work being automated.

Report 86

Report Project Learning-by-Doing Skills 86

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

But psychologists have found that positive emotions and negative emotions instead fit into two separate buckets and can move up and down independently. But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court.

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The good news is that most of the people who get to top management positions are smart enough. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. There is no shortage of bright people.

Agility 120

Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Participants in our Approach to Leadership Excellence training course frequently tell us that management today has a tendency to focus on finding what’s wrong and repairing it, or even punishing it, instead of finding what’s right and rewarding it. Photo Credit: Disney Institute. Great Leaders Show Genuine Care for Their Teams.

Positioning 8

Positioning Content Commitment Learning-by-Doing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

Leadership 133

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. ” Positive relationships. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan. David Kopans.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

Team 15

Team Leadership COO Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

When we started our first restaurant in 2004, our goal was to create a place where people wanted to not just eat but also to work. One is designed to pin point any distracting thoughts or emotions (for example, “What’s bothering you today?”), the other to bring people into the positive “present” (for example,“What are you grateful for?”).

Airlines 8

Airlines Bond Morale Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. In short, it is their primary management system.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

He assumed leadership of Coca-Cola''s large South Africa operation eight years later, before taking on leadership positions worldwide and the CEO job in in 2004. It''s a reasonable position, but one that compels hard discussions. In 2008 he was named by Beverage Industr y magazine as the sector''s CEO of the year.

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

In 2004, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of the modern classic 4' 33" by John Cage , a composition famous for its counterintuitive focus on the sounds of music not being played. I sometimes ask the executives and managers I coach to do something similarly counterintuitive. Looking for an edge over your competition ?

Public Relations 16

Public Relations Execution System Marketing 16

HR Digest

JANUARY 2, 2020

This threshold has been raised from the previous limit of $455 per week of 40 hours, which was set in 2004. There will be no changes in overtime protection for police officers, paramedics, nurses and laborers, including those in non-management production line work. It is estimated that 1.3

Safe Harbor 84

Safe Harbor Proposal Long-term Comparison 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Gifts from the private sector can help these organizations grow, undertake projects they would otherwise be unlikely to afford, offer more job security to their employees or more incentives to their volunteers, improve their operations, and ultimately thrive.

Reputation 8

Reputation Project Comparison Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

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. Turnarounds operate on several time frames. Change management Leadership' Their game is baseball, my game is change. Think small as well as big.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

In October, 2004, Harvard Business Review published an article entitled "Presenteeism: At Work — But Out of It." Much has been made — and rightfully so — about drowsy truckers and rail operators causing fatalities, but the life-or-death implications extend far beyond these kinds of incidents.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Absenteeism ROI Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Its financial position meant that Swansea City had two choices: Buy a lesser player and incur the transfer cost that one club must pay another to acquire one of its players; or borrow the much more skillful Caroll and merely pick up the cost of his salary for one season. Talent management Leadership Developing employees'

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Creating a new leadership position focused on safety is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it shows seriousness of purpose.

Report 8

Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

But more than two-thirds of 1990 industry leaders no longer existed by 2004. Clearly, this mental architecture was responsible for the execution ability of the most effective executives operating under pressure. What's more, these attributes were almost totally absent among the bottom-performing quartile.

CEO 16

CEO Self-aware Bottom-up Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. Top management must be very careful about how they downsize the organization. Crisis management Cutting costs Small/medium business'

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw. Sure enough, serendipity often is the story. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Managers are well aware that Moore’s Law, the idea that the number of transistors on a practical-sized chip doubles every 18 months, has brought us a bounty of cheap computing power, leading to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, cloud-based services like Facebook and Uber, and on and on.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. She then connected me to her research and medical network, and in particular to an entrepreneurial professor in medical management," she says. There is a lot of chaos in the world of work," says Kathy E.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Definitely the scale.

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Survey Politics Information Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. Corning spent a net $3.2

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

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. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8