The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Indeed, the World Bank predict that we’re facing up to the worst global recession since the 2nd World War. The findings came from an analysis of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey that was undertaken by the UK government either side of the 2008 recession.

Short-term 114

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 114

Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Disclaimer – I am a Global Council Member and “Top Contributor&# to the site). TopSalesWorld.com , dubbed The Global Sales Community, is exactly that. You can access articles, blogs, and profiles of the experts.

Workshop 146

Workshop Resources Construction Open-book 146

Coaching Tip

JULY 2, 2014

Source: Alan Trefler: Build for Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement through Continuous Digital Innovation. . Bottom line: You are either great and loved raptly or really untrustworthy, uncool, and hence, demonized. The power and importance of these kinds of connections is backed up by research. Today, that is not selling so well.

Advertising 103

Advertising Self-aware Bottom-up Loyalty 103

Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. . Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Armstrong 108

Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

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.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The global economy is in a pretty tight spot. We focused on three areas of questioning: Their confidence in the global economy this year and in the next decade, whether or not they were confident their companies would hit their revenue targets this year and next, and whether they anticipated increasing their hiring in the next fiscal year.

Survey 12

Survey Planning Globalization Maturity 12

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 18, 2011

o Find your own market niche In the same way that successful entrepreneurs provide innovative solutions to market opportunities, you can work to develop a special competency that differentiates you from everyone else. Marshall Every two years there is a global survey to determine the world’s top 50 business thinkers.

Ulrich 134

Ulrich Hersey Prahalad Mission Statement 134

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

We’re in the middle of an employee survey to better understand what went right and wrong in 2009 and figure out what our priorities should be in 2010. Yeah, we’re a survey company and so this is technically shameless self-promotion, but believe me when I say we find surveys to be very useful for our own planning.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Over the past few years, we've all become much more aware of the forces that will powerfully shape global society over the next decade. From these explorations, a consistent theme has emerged: today's global business leaders have needed to adopt a different perspective on their role and purpose. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. This finding was fairly typical across the firms we surveyed.

Innovation 15

Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

Blog 333

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. ” There were other limitations. .

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 shows that out of the 100 CEOs represented in the survey, 92 were Caucasian males. Women make up approximately 18% of director positions within the S&P 100, and only 8.4% For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here. Source U.S.

Diversity 50

Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why Google created its Founders Awards to provide stock worth up to several million dollars as an incentive to innovation. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations. is far from settled, even after years of research.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incentives Comparison Power 8

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

And some additional thoughts… Regardless of gender, I believe strongly that the 11 blogs nominated are both outstanding and contribute signifiantly and meaningfully to the global conversation about leadership. Are they they only ones for whom that can be said? Of course not!

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing McCarthy 218

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, when a generation found its voice on the streets of Tunis and Cairo. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a rapidly diversifying, entrepreneurial, and globally connected business region. And this healthy growth is despite the uncertainty following the Arab Spring.

Class 15

Class Globalization Survey Cooper 15

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

.&# When speaking with employees who have never been asked for their opinion before at work (33% of bosses rarely or never ask for their subordinate advise based on a national survey we conducted) they say they will never work for another company in which they did not get to participate in the strategic planning process.

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Until the turn of the century, population growth powered more than half of global consumption. For example, people aged over 50 bought nearly two-thirds of the new cars sold in the United States in 2011. In those 15 years, they will generate more than one-third of global consumption growth. By 2011, this share was more than 45%.

Marketing 8

Marketing McKinsey Globalization Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In The Brand Bubble , John Gerzema and Edward Lebar highlight the fact that in the 1950s, about 30% of firm value was intangible (at the high end); today it is closer to 62% globally. There is another reason that trust is so critical to the innovation process. Let's look at some of the components of intangible value.

Brand 15

Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. The response came back resoundingly: It's simply good for business.

Company 16

Company Heskett Ryan Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. Though profitable again, the company needed to transform itself into a global renewable materials company. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

However, this is better than the 20% in 2011. To determine these ratios, the survey tracks companies along six phases of the gender journey: Asleep – Some companies haven’t even started the journey; we put them in our ‘Asleep’ category. Gender Global business' None have a female CEO.

Execution 11

Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." Since then BCG, Accenture and other consultancies have confirmed the global skill shift. CEOs say that creativity is a crucial leadership skill, but few apparently have it. And no wonder.

Creativity 8

Creativity How To Efficiency Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Engagement surveys are good for a whole host of reasons, but in a distributed company, I would argue they are invaluable. For example, we run quarterly surveys that provide us deep insight on multiple levels, including by team and region. Stay plugged into their feedback on a consistent basis.

Content 8

Content Survey CEO Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

If you pay attention to workplace surveys, the news sounds pretty bad. But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story. And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities.

P&L 13

P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

We've heard from countless managers like him who have seized on what they believe to be a game-changing innovation that they cannot get senior leaders to pay attention to. In the September 2011 issue of HBR, we published " Finding Great Ideas in Emerging Markets " to share our findings about this conundrum.

Marketing 14

Marketing Wilde Innovation Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. When we at the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed a group of academic and industry leaders about the current state of higher education, they agreed.

Education 8

Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

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. A survey of the job and business gains in the U.S. In the U.S.,

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Much has been written over the last decade about how the Internet, by enabling online commerce, social networks, and easy access to information and entertainment, has transformed the global economy. A Texas A&M study forecasts that by 2020 Americans will spend 45 hours per year tied up in traffic (compared to 38 hours in 2011).

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

However, in our survey of 1,060 global executives , only 30% of executives work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media. Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Unfortunately, both questions frame the debate as if America’s jobs and income will automatically rebound, regardless of our interdependence on a global economy and the increasingly fast pace of technological change. The answer, sadly, is largely no. And who creates more value than entrepreneurs? This must change.

Education 8

Education Long-term Learning-by-Doing Mentor 8