Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. According to a regulatory filing for 2011 in the State of Delaware, where Mars is incorporated, there are six members, all grandchildren or great-grandchildren of Frank Mars.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. They introduced many new value-added and innovative new products.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. In 2011, Phillip Carter wrote an article in the Washington Post , entitled “For Veterans, is ‘Thank You for Your Service’ Enough?” I drew my standard-issue Gerber?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The team building & leadership method that created success for this group was the Solutions Future Focused Process , here are some of the outcomes created in our time together; Had Fun Learned about strengths and services offered by entire LawNY agency and other offices. Developing Clear & Distinct goals and actions for 2013.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In order for you to see the communication processes as successful and competent where would you have to be on that same scale? In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. All rights reserved.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Innovators think and do things differently in order to achieve extraordinary success. Our research indicates that whether they are CEOs, senior executives, sports team owners, or film directors, game changers who stand head and shoulders above the rest share a common set of qualities that we call the innovation mindset.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Below are seven key success areas to help you begin to think about a marketing plan for your small business: 1. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Personal Appearance.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

in 2013, compared to 2.5% It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. The new products, new technology, new startups. ” Variable outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. What successful companies are doing right. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, in 2013 Starbucks made $146MM on interest investing the float, or 8% of total profit. business ended 2014 with 39.1 Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. He highlights the consequences of the well-intentioned but damaging approaches we sometimes take to prepare our kids for success in life. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. What successful companies are doing right. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. A clear one is that there are many factors, such as the economy or the desirability of your products, that can affect a company’s success as much or more than its digital capabilities. Yagi Studios/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? Much more successful apps are those that can offer a more seamless experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Those earlier experiences are an important study in building teams, breaking ground on behalf of mission success, and successfully integrating new groups into the established order. Quite simply, desperation was the mother of innovation. What made this change possible? First, a sense of urgency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Getting Started.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Will badges require successful course completion? innovative alternatives. But is it enough?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now. Like to read?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime. Companies who rely on innovative product design to separate themselves from their competitors must effectively manage these risks.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. Even though I had been working with entrepreneurs since 2005, and I had created my own Company in 2011, I was still afraid of being totally free to work on my dream. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. …If failure is the prerequisite of success, businesses can no longer afford not to encourage risk taking. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. LinkedIn has surged over 100%. That’s great for them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation. Employee incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. I had been a member of the board since 2011 and loved the brand and everything it stood for. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013. I did not want the company to liquidate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. But the latest innovations in imaging and diagnostic testing can lower costs by improving the odds of a correct diagnosis. Cutting costs Health Innovation' In medicine, timing is everything.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. By 2011, its PlayStation had become the best-selling game console of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Utility, customization, and segmentation are key to the success of mobile marketing to women in the developing world. The Mobile Shopping Life Cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

There''s no question that Amazon''s innovation went right for the jugular of any volume- and price-focused retailer selling commodity goods like consumer electronics and household wares. But innovative retailers are responding to this threat by turning "showrooming" to their own advantage. The strategy is a striking success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the cure to the pathologies of past-sickness does not lie in the equally romanticized vision of modernization and innovation we have been offered for the last 40 years — something that might be called future nostalgia , or modernization-sickness. As for the people who actually provide those affordable consumer goods and services?

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