Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. 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.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Then make notes about past accomplishments that clearly demonstrate your successes in those areas. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Unflappable during crises.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. But, that didn’t stop two successful Division I women’s basketball coaches from venturing into the bedsheet business, hoping to disrupt the industry with their innovative idea for “high performance” sheets.

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Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Burwell, the U.S.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. 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.” and compete successfully.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. Across all four, however, we’re assuming that the purpose itself is viable and has the potential to be successful.). How does your company score?

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. These success stories cannot remain the exception. Currently 1.2

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Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. billion in 2013 revenues is more than five times larger than LinkedIn’s $1.52 What’s more, professional networking is a natural extension of Facebook’s original operating model, sussing out and serving the needs of the relatively homogeneous community of college students.

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Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

And likening activists to those “playing fantasy football” as opposed to “actually playing the field,” Irene Rosenfeld, former CEO of snack-food giant Mondelez, noted in 2015 that “ advising others to act in a certain way doesn’t seem hard for people who don’t have to do it themselves.”

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CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Indeed, employees at every turn faced personal and professional risks in defying the law; two European executives were indicted and arrested for operating without required permits. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Only four years later, in 2015, Zynga backtracked on the decision and started hosting its games on Amazon Web Services again.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

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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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Overcoming a lack of market data.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Algorithms will harness personal data in order to assess an employee’s predicted success at work: for example, how likely she is to bounce around jobs. Drone lanes.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

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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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes. A 2013 HBR article by Christine Riordan likewise reported the many ways that workplace friendship increases job satisfaction and engagement.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. For your sanity and future success, it’s critical to maintain outside interests and contacts of your own.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Nordstrom has increased its sales by 50 percent from 2010 to 2015 through both online and offline sales. Building Empathy.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, a program that proponents hoped could rein in health care costs by “bundling” payment for the full gamut of services that comprise an episode of care. Hero Images/Getty Images. The Future of Health Care.

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Health Care Cost Incentives Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car.

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Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Big corporations seem to have it especially hard: according to an Accenture survey , only 15% of college students who graduated in 2015 said they would prefer to work for a large company. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Boredom seems inevitable.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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. Failure to engage developers.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? They carefully select the most successful ones to scale up and exploit. When and how should you implement it?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: MineMe Inc.

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How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. That is some group of people.

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