The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The researchers analyzed the strategic focus of publicly listed firms from 1980 to 2013 and found a number of factors that contribute towards this shift in mentality, including the types of investments made by the firm, the compensation paid to the CEO, the patience levels of investors, and the external pressures faced by the firm.

Short-term 72

Short-term Discount Long-term Analysis 72

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/20/12 – Team Building & Leadership Photos. 12/27/12 – Team Building & Leadership activities (simulations). 12/28/12 – Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2012. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team SWOT Leadership 137

Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Albert likens the structure of timing analysis to the structure of a musical score. As of May 2013, nobody has. When provides a more insightful way to look at events and the seven essential steps in a timing analysis. There is a horizontal and a vertical dimension to it. Management'

Incentives 280

Incentives Reference Analysis Long-term 280

Chartered Management Institute

JULY 19, 2013

It was Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) who first defined the terms ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership to describe managers who are strong on individual and group motivation and those who prefer to focus on goals, tasks and processes. Thus a preference for transformational styles is a predictor for leadership effectiveness.

Leadership Styles 72

Leadership Styles Leadership Analysis Motivation 72

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

Human Resources 153

Human Resources Talent Management Motivation Analysis 153

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

T his post originally published Friday, November 1, 2013 at www.greatleadersserve.org. Learn from the past – Have you ever done an analysis of your decision-making? Guest Posts Leadership better decisions decision making Mark Miller The Secret' Each week, I respond to a question I’ve received from another leader.

Rogers 230

Rogers Consensus Learning-by-Doing Delegation 230

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 21, 2014

I’ve reviewed hundreds of custom-designed leadership profiles. Typically, these documents describe leadership behaviors the organization desires, and include such important items as “helps people develop”, “values different opinion”, and “avoids playing favorites”. This is the definition of playing favorites. Life is good.

Video 115

Video Executive Coaching Follow-up Document 115

Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. Jon Acuff’s Facebook Posts regarding the decision he and his wife, Jenny, made to leave the Dave Ramsey team: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM.

Team 222

Team Morale Stress Content 222

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Harvey Schachter reviewed dozens and dozens of business, leadership, and management books for The Globe & Mail last year. As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter we spent an extremely busy summer getting up to speed on ZF’s powerful and very revolutionary strengths-based leadership approaches.

Leadership Development 45

Leadership Development Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence 45

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine?

How To 78

How To Analysis Decentralization Mentor 78

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. They are transforming each and every business model.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Any of these questions can go wrong.

Power 95

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. An analysis of full-time workers 10 years out of college, for instance, found a 12 percent difference in earnings that was entirely unexplained by choice of profession.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

what professionals should do to ‘get to know themselves again’ importance of performing a personal SWOT analysis for each position being applied for. A member of the Society of Human Resource Management, she received a leadership award in 2002 from the Midwest College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

SWOT 58

SWOT Human Resources Letter Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

d.light’s deeply holistic analysis of the problems faced by people in poverty led to developing inexpensive, durable solar-powered LED lanterns (sold on time payments) to replace kerosene, open fires—or darkness. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. Two examples: Let There Be Light.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. He has advised two U.S. Presidents and spoke at five Economic Summits. All rights reserved.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Tactics Competitive Advantage Budgeting 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. He has advised two U.S. Presidents and spoke at five Economic Summits. All rights reserved.

Strategic Planning 50

Strategic Planning Tactics Competitive Advantage Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Develop a speech (you can potentially leverage your thought leadership writing, discussed above) and begin by speaking at small, local or regional seminars; then, build up to speak at industry conferences or larger venues. He is a sought-after speaker and a recognized thought leader in Win Loss Analysis. Consider leaving a comment!

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. We evaluated the leadership practices and effectiveness of 60,000 managers and executives in 140+ countries and 26 industries. I would say yes – and that it’s the most important thing you can do as a leader.

Organization 14

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi). Global business Leadership Microsoft'

CEO 13

CEO Altman Globalization GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Their rate of psychopathology is five times that of 75 years ago, according to one meta-analysis. A 2013 survey of more than 123,000 students at 153 colleges showed that more than half experience overwhelming anxiety, and about a third feel intense depression during the school year.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Development Cost-Benefit Analysis Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

A Harvard Business Review data analysis showed that the average age of founders of unicorns (private companies with more than $1 billion in valuation) is 31, and the average age of their CEOs is 41 (as compared with the average age of an S&P 500 company CEO, which is 52). We’re living longer, but power is moving younger.

Emotional Intelligence 12

Emotional Intelligence Diversity Class CEO 12

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. LARRY: It was never enough.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails. Arianna Huffington counsels more sleep.

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors. The quota policy has its critics.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. Allow time and persevere.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. Here, a good example might be early training in data analysis and visualization. Lay the groundwork for future contributions.

Training 10

Training Attrition ROI Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

An analysis that we conducted of disclosures made by 50 American financial services companies revealed that women occupy only 20% of executive committee roles and 22% of board positions. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. financial firms are women.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

For one thing, at GEGRC, internal analysis predicted a potential tsunami of retirements hitting the two top technical levels between 2008 and 2013. So what was wrong with this picture? That meant a costly practice could get prohibitively expensive. That can be devastating to competitive advantage.

Consultative 8

Consultative Competitive Advantage Long-term Incentives 8

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 analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

A recent analysis by my firm, Weber Shandwick, found that 80% of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest 50 companies are engaged online and on social media. For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Much of the Anglo-Saxon debate about "women in leadership" is framed as an issue of women's "choices." The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. Men are increasingly sharing in this guilt.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

But the most detached observers do not make the best managers; the wise ones know that after all the analysis is done, they still have to throw themselves back into the mix. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

Management 8

Management Drucker Maturity Participative 8

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. Therefore the most important aim for digital companies is to achieve market leadership, create network effects , and command a “winner-take-all” profit structure.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8