Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Best Leadership Books of 2014. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? Turbulence. So did we succeed?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2014

Holy frijoles, 2013 is over! What was your 2013 resolve? For your 2014 (and all years to come) I have created an easy-to-understand, ‘achievement opportunity’ formula. What are you seeking to accomplish in 2014 and what is your real resolve to make it happen? Technology shifts. How did you do?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. The Port of Houston, 100th in 2014. The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, 200th in 2014. Hear the success stories. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Technology is but one tool of the trade.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Geography can also factor in startup success and failure rates. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. Successful government organizations use both offline and online touchpoints to build a digital audience.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 28, 2013

I wrote this post last year in contemplation of the beginning of 2013. I’m posting it again because well, I think it continues to be relevant in 2014. However, if you have something that would make the workplace of 2014 much better, attitude-wise, I encourage you to share it. Thank you. ==.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. So in early 2014, Jonathan Glick coined the ungainly word “ platisher ” to describe hybrids of digital media platforms and publishers. For an example, look at Medium , a platisher that raised $25 million in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

While these enablers make the IoT possible, its long-term success depends on the use cases that help realize the economic potential of connecting billions of devices, either to improve quality of life or save money. Information & technology Internet' Samsung expects the bulk of this opportunity to be driven by the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

At the end of 2013, we randomly allocated the captains to three treatment groups and one control group, and in January 2014, all captains were told that their flight and fuel behavior would be monitored for the next eight months.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Technological challenges. Technological problems have, in many cases, strained the customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. Over the first half of 2013, I struggled through a deep depressive episode – my third as an adult. Feld, who recently wrote about this decision in Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. They also proudly tell me that cumulative sales of ecomagination products have reached $200 billion, accounting for 30% of industrial revenues in 2014, or more than $30 billion. billion people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While successful female leaders have made headlines in recent years — Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Indra Nooyi all come to mind — they remain the exception to the rule. Success is also correlated with the relative absence of discriminatory attitudes toward female executives. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. People are usually still expected to be available.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

.” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. Getting Started.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Dupont did not give in to Nelson Pelz’s demands, but it did make big changes in its board.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Measure success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Sales doubled in 2013. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills. Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

A newer generation of app developers – the so-called “middle class” of independent app creators and companies – is finding success by better catering to customers’ demand for choice and variety, even as they bump up against challenges like app discovery and advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. If you’re still using focus groups, you’re using 30-year-old technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. Patch weak spots. ” It’s a question only you can answer, of course.

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