Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

The real problem is the managers who lack either the courage or the discipline required to deliver effective feedback. Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. The people that we coach (in agreement with their managers, if they are not the CEO) work with us to determine desired leadership behavior. 3) Collect feedback.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? Flap strategy #1: Talk. Sincerely, Lisa. Turn the key and go for a ride. ?.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? Flap strategy #1: Talk. Sincerely, Lisa. Turn the key and go for a ride. ?.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. One of the most notorious examples of a post-M&A culture misfit is the 2005 merger of Kansas-based Sprint and Nextel. A Nextel managers’ meeting illustrated the dynamic perfectly: The Nextel CEO wore khakis and shouted “Stick it to Verizon!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. By 2005 Sodexho was widely recognized as a diversity champion. Managing identities of growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Here are five strategies to keep in mind. That was my strategy as well. How do you know what to focus on? How do you assess your expertise? And what are the first steps you should take once you think you’ve found the right idea? Don’t fall in love with your first idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This strategy has helped the company both flat-line health care costs and book record profits. Employees get to choose which.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Dean went on David Letterman and subjected himself to a scream-related "Top 10" list of campaign turnaround strategy suggestions. But his career since highlights the most important tenet when it comes to recovering from a screw-up: don't forget your base. Next — if appropriate — try to laugh at yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

What's more, an innovation that disappoints in development — or worse, in the marketplace — can be a career path setback. The large, established business units within a firm usually control or have a heavy influence over budgets and strategies. It's difficult to make assumptions about the unfamiliar.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

In fall 2021, HPU ’ s freshman class was larger than the entire student body was in 2005 and will have access to 62 majors and 64 minors. . Qubein, an alumnus of High Point University, became the seventh president of this 94-year-old institution in 2005. But the longer answer is hard work informed by visionary strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. When I started recruiting talent for my new company, before candidates asked about our strategy, they asked how much money we had. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. Most often, what led to their success was a strategy of growing the number of stores in an existing fashion chain. However, only about 28% of pharma CEOs have such a background.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Leading vs. Managing – This is the big one- the ultimate battle. The easiest way to make the distinction is just open a dictionary and read the definitions of “manage&# and “lead&#. SURESHKUMAR.S

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

And Jim stuck with fencing for years, eventually fencing in the 1956 Olympics and becoming President of the World Bank, a position he held from 1995 to 2005. What does Jim's fencing experience have to do with his esteemed business and political career? Failure is an essential part of his strategy. Everything.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. Nearly one million Networking Academy students have since acquired the critical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in 21st century digital age careers.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. This is where awareness of the benefits leadership skills provide comes in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

by 80% between 2005 and 2012. It’s critically important not just for your career, but for your psychological well-being,” he says. When Catherine Campbell launched her own branding and strategy business in Asheville, North Carolina, earlier this year, she already had some experience working from home. Celebrate your wins.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For over two years, I’ve been doing qualitative research on Uber and Lyft drivers, first examining how Uber uses automated mechanisms to manage drivers with my coauthor Luke Stark. ” With the advent of Uber, he’s become anxious about the stability of his income as a professional driver and is looking to change careers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. 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.

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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. It’s unreasonable to expect the architects of the strategies and practices that led to your downfall to see the error of their ways, or the right path forward. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

It was 23 years ago, and I was just starting my leadership career. These days I’m the one trying to banish the nattering nabobs from my circle (probably using a little different language to do it), and it’s an extremely effective strategy for living a life full of dreams, hope, and possibilities – and action. It’s useless.

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