Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). 94% Belongs to the System (2013). PDSA Improvement cycle graphic from my book – Management Matters.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto FT Press/Pearson (2013) One of the most important attributes of a great leader This is the second edition of a book first published in 2005.

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Consensus Review Books Blog 89

Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2021

In 2005, he founded the company Fusion Systems, which created, among others high frequency trading systems for brokers. In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies.

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Armstrong Decentralization Finance Licensing 131

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in January 2005, he realized the enormous potential of this academy of higher learning. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. Every detail is managed to ensure the campus is decorated in the color of “extraordinary.”. Caring is never taken for granted.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 8, 2016

I have written about the importance and value of prediction on my Curious Cat blog several times, including: Management is Prediction (2005) , Write it Down (2007) , Predicting Improves Learning (2007).

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. Leadership Small/medium business'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. Companies that changed their values between 2005 and 2008 had higher return on assets than those that did not.

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Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk. The future looked bright.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In 2005, Amazon introduced its Prime service, which provides members with unlimited “free” two-day delivery (as well as discounted overnight delivery) on eligible products for $79 a year. Amazon claims it has at least 20 million Prime members, having signed up 1 million new subscribers in the third week of December 2013 alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management destroy value at J.C. And what about private-equity partners and sovereign-wealth managers who come on boards of large publicly-traded firms—not as activists but in the wake of taking a stake? Even Microsoft is soon to have a hedge-fund activist, ValueAct Capital Management’s president G.

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Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In July 2013, I wrote a piece and launched an assessment on HBR.org meant to help readers take a clear view of what they want from — and can contribute to — each domain of their lives. Here’s how: Lower risk by scaling the intended new action down so it’s manageable, and less frightening. You and Your Team.

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Metrics Learning-by-Doing Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 billion on buybacks, representing 67% of net income, and $22.1 billion on dividends, equivalent to 51% of net income.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Managers must make it clear that they understand that excellent performance does not mean not making mistakes — it means learning quickly from mistakes and sharing the lessons widely.

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

On August 9, 2013 — a time of disappointing quarterly results — he held an all-hands conference call with 1,000 Patch (AOL’s hyper-local news division) employees. Managers berate subordinates in meetings. Consider the case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. Karen Dillon. Add to Cart. But no workplace is perfect.

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Fashion Armstrong Emotional Intelligence CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The Justice Department charges of gross negligence were filed before the judge considering whether to approve this private party settlement in order to ensure the issues were preserved for the BP-Department of Justice (DoJ) trial scheduled for January, 2013. No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

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Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

It''s a bubble when the price you pay for share of stock cannot conceivably be recouped from the earnings of the company (this was Cisco in 2000 ) or the price you pay for house cannot conceivably be recouped from rental earnings (this was Phoenix in 2005 ). By contrast, bitcoins have been skyrocketing in value.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Lead on Purpose

JULY 13, 2013

In 2005, Prof. Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders (Riley & Blackwell, 2013). . —. Green was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Be the hero to the people you work with.

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Ethics Politics Morale Books 155

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There is, for example, no federal nondiscrimination protection on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. A natural question, then, is: have the shifts in approval of LGBTQ individuals corresponded to equivalent improvements in their paychecks?

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Education Document Survey Sample 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 Decades ago W. was developed at a U.S.

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Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump’s former campaign manager declared that it was once again safe to say “Merry Christmas,” reflecting Trump’s campaign promise that, if he won, every store would say “Merry Christmas,” and “Happy Holidays” would be out.

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