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. Think about the power of this maxim. Would you briefly share that because it is incredibly powerful? Yes… of course!

Leadership 132

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. While learning the Ford organization, he could also learn how powerful competitors operated and develop his own skills free from the bubble of Detroit’s automotive society.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. Many have grown up under conditions of hardship. This is their only purpose.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Motorola is finally attempting a comeback with handsets using Google's Android operating system, but is now only a minor player.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When three hurricanes struck Central Florida in the same month in 2004, the Disney parks assigned multiple ride-out crews to stay on our properties in order to take care of guests and fellow Cast Members, assess operations, and resume normal functions as quickly as possible. About Disney Institute.

Positioning 8

Positioning Content Commitment Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. Yet many executives don''t make culture a priority.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

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. Compassion for the people they serve powers the resilience of many UN employees. She faced her greatest challenge during her posting in Jakarta.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

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

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. Many have grown up under conditions of hardship. This is their only purpose.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. Consider, for example, how we convert and control electrical power. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. Insight Center.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Companies that appreciate the power of sacrifice also appreciate that ‘do less better’ is a winning strategy at both the corporate and functional level. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. billion and record earnings.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

They tap the power of the ingrained thinking and behavior that already exists below the surface in their company, using culture, not structure, to drive change. That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A food company, for example, outfits vehicles with entire kitchens to demonstrate the most effective and creative ways to use its specialty food ingredients in food service operations. Many products can be complicated to operate or dangerous if used incorrectly, and a van can save a customer from traveling to a training center.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

And I witnessed its truth firsthand as the CEO of Merck in 2004, when our earnings were going to fall short of analysts' expectations. Purpose, meaning, and recognition are more powerful motivators than economic self-interest, and large external rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

While most of us will not undertake negotiations of this complexity, Koh’s approach offers powerful lessons for all negotiations. Singapore Free Trade agreement was successfully signed in 2004. Acted as Chief Negotiator for Singapore in talks leading to the U.S.-Singapore Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Master your brief.

Advice 8

Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns. The report instead elevates inferences of monopoly power based on market shares.

Wireless 12

Wireless Report Price Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

During the heyday of American power after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the U.S. With widespread operations in emerging markets — and the understanding that arises from that focus — such U.S. Governments negotiate these matters and smart businesses make sure that their governments know their needs.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. He didn’t know whether we made nuclear power plants or French fries. But it’s pretty clear that it’s been a good way to make money. It’s not about the customers. He didn’t care.”

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

By examining dozens of variables, we found the levers that explain more than 80% of the up-drift and down-drift on what we have dubbed the “power curve” of corporate performance. In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. Milliken for the Academy of Management Review and Stern Business pegged fear — and the resulting silence when employees operate within a culture of fear — as the biggest roadblock to innovation. We must trust their inherent powers and strengths.

Innovation 9

Innovation Survey Policies Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL).

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

In exclusive business relationships, one or the other partner will typically feel constrained and seek ways out of the deal or to create additional options that give them bargaining power with their mate. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Recent examples abound.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? 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.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. 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.”.

Report 8

Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Magical, really. It may be one of the most fascinating companies I know. This is a company that took $4 million of invested capital to build a company now worth over $4 billion.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

From the way that it deployed advanced digital media to the way that it incorporated rank-and-file supporters into its messaging apparatus, the Obama for America operation in 2008 demonstrated the power of conducting a campaign as though it were a conversation. Effective organization conversation, we argue in our book Talk, Inc.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% from 2004 to 2007. If employees don't want to change, they have power. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

But while field organizing is essential in this closely contested race, the groundwork has been laid over many months by the campaigns' digital operations. Just as Nancy Lublin suggested in her book Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business , corporations have a lot to learn from underfunded nonprofits, and the same is true of political campaigns.

Media 8

Media Marketing Politics Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. The power comes from bringing formal learning and on-the-job learning together in a deliberate manner. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8