Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. The roots of crowdsourcing can be traced as far back as the early 18th century, when the British government sought help from members of the public to develop the best way to measure a ship’s longitudinal position.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, long-term, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Note to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41. Ben : Right.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41. Ben : Right.

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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. Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. We looked to see what we could do to create a work-related development opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. which led to the development of its current Watson business. However, DePinho points out that, over the long haul, grand challenges tend to make good economic sense.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This migratory trend is symptomatic of the long-term challenges facing Guangdong, which has become China's export-manufacturing hub over the last 25 years. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. And it's a shame.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. In terms of sheer quantity of work hours, organizations will see more work time put in by employees who find greater meaning in that work. Current compensation levels show only a marginal relationship with job satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before. Learning Swarm Intelligence from Tiki-Taka Soccer .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

I wanted to see if there was a method to that magic, since it’s so critical for organizations to keep innovating and reinventing if they want to survive over the long term. You describe your vision vividly and compellingly so that your fellow travelers long to see it become reality.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The succession process is a crossroads in a country's development trajectory. As a result, succession planning techniques developed in the private sector are often applicable to public sector institutions. In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both the Ruler and Crown Prince are in their 70s and 80s. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” “Ask: What is best for us in the long-term?” ” Consider your development. ” “What’s the opportunity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Unlike traditional forms of business risk, social and environmental risks manifest themselves over a longer term, often affect the business on many dimensions, and are largely outside the organization’s control.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. The practice of mindful leadership gives you tools to measure and manage your life as you're living it. That is much easier said than done.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry. Change management Getting buy-in Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

It also takes a long time for returns on R&D investments to be realized—longer than the average five-to-seven-year period before the portfolio company is sold off. At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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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 is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. Well-being has to be woven into the very fabric of the company.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In today’s competitive world, top executives increasingly understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders throughout the organization. Leaders need to develop other leaders. I had no idea this process would take so long. I tried it out–it didn’t seem to do that much good.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Large, well-established companies in need of long-term growth often turn to M&A. But some manage to keep or regain it—they rejuvenate. In 2005, Disney was lagging in creative output and commercial traction. .” Still, Iger did not abandon shorter-term financial rewards. What needs to change?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A detailed roadmap should outline how it will become autonomous in terms of revenues and/or access to central services.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

If economic forces were left to themselves, economic forces would victimize the peripheral nations, while the developed nations at the "center" would gain all the benefits of trade and development. For Venezuela, autarky had long meant creating economic ties with other Latin American nations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before. Learning Swarm Intelligence from Tiki-Taka Soccer .

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. For more on a real-time corporate Innovator's Dilemma, see Horace Dediu's HP's Decades-Long Departure.

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