The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. There are risks of course, not least in the potential for significant income inequality if some sections of society are working more traditional hours and some are working heavily reduced hours.

Osborne 67

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I’m sure you also know some. Inflate budgets.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Mitchell carefully mapped out her career as a rising executive. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Well, she worked, of course! Find Your Role in the Pack. Enjoy the Ride.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Mitchell carefully mapped out her career as a rising executive. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Well, she worked, of course! Find Your Role in the Pack. Enjoy the Ride.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

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.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. There aren’t many courses about how to ask questions, but great questions can help you become a great boss. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog offers Seven Steps to Success in Your New Management Job. Leadership. Jennifer V.

Leadership Development 167

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. And how do we develop their skills and careers? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the U.S., What kind of alliances will we need to make? All rights reserved.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. VCs barely invest in their own funds.

Venture Capitalist 18

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In fact, no other company function is allowed to second guess the design team’s direction when it comes to the emotional and functional benefits for consumers, the interpretation of market trends, and, of course, aesthetics. Of course, design also has a huge impact on the representation of Nike’s brand across the globe.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ’” Here’s a sample mid-career resume that does this well (source: John Lees, Knockout CV ). See below for exactly what to include. Make it readable.

How To 15

How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

“That partner simply couldn’t remember that it was my leadership, my work — aided of course by the team and that one guy (we’ll call him Jim) — and that I’d been instrumental in hiring Jim and promoting him while I was leading it,” she says. He did such a great job with that cost reduction project.’”

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2013 an activist investor criticized the board at ConMed for a “ culture of nepotism, patronage, and dystopian corporate governance.” Of course, these findings do not directly prove that directors quit because of the negative attention or that they perceive negative attention as a threat to their reputation.

Reputation 8

Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs."

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

In a marketing pitch, you’re telling the story about your idea. Sandberg’s plan had been to give a talk “chock full of data and no personal stories” but she agreed to change course. At TED 2013, U2 front man Bono delivered a presentation on global efforts to reduce childhood mortality.

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Audience COO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In the course of our research, we have found that some human capital-intensive industries are more inherently receptive to social innovation than others. Accounting and consulting firms are often highly responsive to the social demands of their employees.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Of course, the journey isn’t over.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Your company probably has a hierarchical process for deciding the proper course of action, and that process probably doesn''t put you at the center of the matter. Unless, of course, the observers have higher status than she does, in which case those mixed feelings go away. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Earlier this month the Rolling Stones kicked off a brief 2013 tour celebrating their 50th anniversary. This could be true or, of course, an excuse to make available more discounted tickets. Marketing' The Stones have always been aggressive in setting ticket prices, and it appears they''ve pushed too hard this time.

Price 8

Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? ” It’s a question only you can answer, of course. ” Further Reading.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

“One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. What the Experts Say.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done.

P&L 15

P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. Searching the web or email will decline; already, the top five search engines saw traffic declines of up to 31% in a study done over the period December 2013 – May 2014. Find new growth markets – fast.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8