Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

By Geoff Colvin Geoff Colvin, the senior editor-at-large at Fortune wrote one of my favorite books of 2008 – Talent is Overrated. Now he’s written what will clearly be one of my favorites of 2015. This book took me on more of an emotional roller coaster ride than any great novel or whodunit. The first […].

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JANUARY 8, 2016

I’m posting this just before our January 8 First Friday Book Synopsis, which featured our synopses of Good Profit (Good Profit is #7 on the December New York Times Business Books Best-Sellers List) and The Big Short, Michael Lewis’ classic narrative about the 2008 financial crisis.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Schools Our Children Deserve Alfie Kohn’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference (11,000 – 4 years). Deming 101 – An Introduction to Dr. Deming’s Teachings the full presentation by Peter Scholtes at our 2008 conference in Madison, Wisconsin (8,100 – 6 years). ??

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

This does have merit, for a 2015 study found that Google images are often highly unrepresentative when people search for particular careers. A paper from the University of Bocconi highlights that manufacturing’s share of employment in the United State fell from 29.7% in 1968 to just 12.7% Correcting the picture.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 14, 2020

The researchers looked at over 130,000 adults who had provided data to the National Health Interview Survey between 2008 and 2015. The research set out to garner some hard and fast evidence on the impact raising the minimum wage had on recipients, especially in terms of their health outcomes. ” Minimum gains.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

A 2015 Gallup survey indicated that engagement is stagnant in the US with 32 percent of employees being engaged. And, the improving economy is seeing American employees voluntarily quit their jobs at a higher rate since the start of the global recession in 2008. The research on employee engagement isn’t pretty.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 26, 2015

In celebration of this anniversary I’m reprising the most “immutable” of the 5 lessons revealed in the book, Trust the Facts, as I originally wrote about it in April of 2008. Thanks again, read on, and lead well!

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Price (2008) argues how rule-breaking behavior should meet a higher standard, meaning the ends are morally better than what exists. Common Good: Dignity and Ethics. Change leadership and common good create an interesting intersection. Often, change leadership is viewed as disrupting the status quo or rule-breaking. Rogers, E.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

They focused their attention on Denmark, and looked at data from the Danish Working Environment Authority (WEA) covering over 70,000 Danish firms between 2008 and 2015. They examine the impact living close to the office has not only on the work environment but also on performance and profitability.

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HR Digest

JULY 1, 2021

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Most companies make the mistake of instituting a hiring freeze in economic downturns.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

2008) How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. Galinsky (2015). Sources: Beard, A. 2014) Leading with Humor, Harvard Business Review, May, Available at: [link] [Accessed: 18 October 2017] Catmul, E. Harvard Business Review, September, Vol. 86 Issue 9, p64?72. Huang, Li, F. Gino, and Adam D.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2016

Power & Associates and was most recently ranked 6 th in the 2015 Fortune magazine “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. During the 2008-2009 recession when most Wall Street firms made dramatic cuts in personnel, Edward Jones instead chose to freeze salaries and other expenses so that no one was laid off.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

As "great" as it was, the Great Recession of 2008-2009 was just a prelude. Editor''s note: This article was adapted, with permission, from the February issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a publication of Elliott Wave International, the world''s largest market forecasting firm. All data is as of Jan.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. In the first quarter of 2015, the Millennial Generation became the largest percentage of workers in the U.S. Many organizations are growing, and so is their need for talent.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 1, 2018

The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,900 views (2 years – 5,500). Deming 101 – An Introduction to Dr. Deming’s Teachings by Peter Scholtes (this shows Peter’s full presentation at our 2008 conference in Madison, Wisconsin): 1,900 views (4 years – 6,300).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Takeaways From the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Retrieved from [link] protection/cyber-security/takeaways-from-the-2015-verizon-data-breach-investigations-report/. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Cyber insurance, security and data integrity. Retrieved from [link]. SC Magazine.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,650 views (1 year ago). Deming 101 – An Introduction to Dr. Deming’s Teachings by Peter Scholtes (this shows Peter’s full presentation at our 2008 conference in Madison, Wisconsin): 5,482 views (3 years ago).

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 15, 2019

They utilized natural language processing and machine learning to group the 500,000 or so comments left by current and former employees at 492 firms between 2008 and 2015 into a few hundred topics surrounding corporate culture. These were then used to train an algorithm to identify clear patterns in words.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2015

Crude oil has followed its Elliott wave script since 1998, including the all-time high near $150 in 2008 and the more recent secondary peak -- one from which oil fell to $40 a barrel this week. Both the DJIA and the S&P 500 are now in the red for 2015. The top in T-bonds came right around the same time.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

Håkan Forss , King (interactive entertainment games), presentation at the GOTO Copenhagen 2015 conference. Related: Toyota Kata Song – The Times They Are Changing (2011) – Agile Software Development and Deming Management Ideas – Webcast on the Toyota Development Process – Future Directions for Agile Management (2008).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. President to visit India twice.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The bad news: the days of monetizing a blog simply by plastering it with ads were well over by about 2008. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I’m here to tell you, you can make money on a blog. But not if you are exclusively focused on dollars. Back then, you could get $40 per CPM, where today, it’s about $2.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Benoît Gruber joined Sage in 2008 and is the Vice President of Corporate Communication for Sage Enterprise Market and Sage X3. Prior to working at Sage, Benoît worked at SAP (from 2000-2008), where he held a variety of marketing and product management positions before becoming Sr. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

The global economic turmoil that began in 2008 has taught numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. When they refuse to make decisions or show a pattern of making bad ones, nothing else matters. She can be reached in St.

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Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

is ridiculously out of line with performance – Warren Buffett (2006 – it is even worse today) – No Excessive Senior Executive Pay at Toyota (2007) – Honda’s 36 board members, included the CEO, were paid $13 million in 2008. Executive PayWatch 2015: CEO Pay Continues to Skyrocket.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. In the University of California’s sprawling network, the number of managers and administrators doubled between 2000 and 2015, while student enrollment increased by just 38%. Notice how rapidly the thicket of bureaucracy grew back after being pruned in the wake of the 2008 recession.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. By December 16, 2008, interest rates were close to 0% in the U.S. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

By 2015, luxury goods sales will touch $27 billion — around 20% of global sales — making China the world's largest luxury market. Better quality is the reason to buy luxury goods, said 50% of the consumers we surveyed — up from 36% in 2008. The importance of service has shot up from 17% in 2008 to 30% in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

Most of my articles had appeared around the year 2008, but 2012 was the year I got the most citations from other academic papers. Scientists upload their research to ResearchGate, the social network my co-founders and I founded in 2008, which provides us with a large dataset on how scientific process plays out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

To start, consider the figure below, “Performance since 2008,” a quarter-by-quarter time-series plot of results on a variable of interest (for example, it could be sales of a particular item, estimated resources to complete a certain project, etc). We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers. Why risk it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

took a newly aggressive stance with the publication on February 24th of a Parliamentary report advocating that FTSE 100 boards should aim for a minimum of 25 percent female representation by 2015 and threatening more draconian action if no significant change is manifested within the next two years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

During a six-month period from December 2015 to May 2016 , Disney has cleaned the clock with a 25% market share in box office with Star Wars sequel, the Jungle Book , and Captain America: Civil War. WB’s revenue dropped 13% in fourth quarter 2015. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. A 2015 study published in the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal discovered that female students perceive themselves to be more politically skilled than male students.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. By 2015, AP’s AI system was writing 3,700 quarterly earnings stories – 12 times the number written by its business reporters.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

At Yahoo, for example, activist shareholders were quite vocal in 2008, asking the firm to accept an acquisition bid from Microsoft , though it was not consistent with the CEO’s strategy for the firm at the time. ” Much of the activism discussed in the media involves a large investor telling the CEO what to do.

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