Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” New forms of stimulus and incentives should be created to appeal to these technologically savvy, bright and environmentally conscious young minds. And that would be a good thing. * * *. Eich , Ph.D. General Business'

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

Jennifer is recognized world-wide as the “go-to” expert on the power of introverts following the success of her first book The Introverted Leader. Dim the lights, turn off the radio and reduce distractions from technology to get inside your head. Who gets their voice heard in the office? Tip: Prepare on two levels.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films. If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Author Bill McBean has spent nearly 40 years as a successful business owner.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m privileged to have met a few of these people in my career – in fact, five “someones” recently at a warm, welcoming, generous visit to Enterasys’s headquarters in Andover, MA. Technology can make being a social business easier, but it can’t make it happen.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines. Have you tried to communicate with your peers in other organizations lately? Have fun! *.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. It’s a fascinating study, one that echoes my constant inquiry of the difference between success and failure. You are teaching what separates successful innovators from those who struggle. Innovation Capital. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Promote Yourself : The New Rules for Career Success. Promote Yourself by Dan Schawbel provides tangible advice for gaining the visibility necessary for career advancement without appearing to be overtly self-serving. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Dan Schawbel. About the Book.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2014

Holy frijoles, 2013 is over! What was your 2013 resolve? Once you read it, and a few of the details, you will at once see where your achievement opportunities are, how they may fit into your life, and how you can use this formula to make this coming year a raging success. Technology shifts. How did you do? I hope you do.

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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. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. This means that students are less likely to graduate with a mountain of debt, giving them more financial flexibility as they start their careers.

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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. Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. You and Your Team Series. Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Starting young, we can shape this muscle so that it becomes part of us, creating a new digital-savvy individual—a global problem solver who recognizes the power of technology, social awareness, and creativity to create an inclusive and sustainable future. Why have we chosen to focus on youth?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. Well, it depends.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. In 2013, when she was being considered for promotion to partner, the fact that prominent professionals were following her on Twitter bolstered her case in a major way. Good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level.

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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

JULY 8, 2013

ended the company''s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. When Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!''s

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.) ” You and Your Team.

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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. Everyone is familiar with Glass Door, Monster.com, and LinkedIn.

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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

JULY 24, 2017

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We Change management can be a test for any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In fact, for women, the technology gender gap seems to be getting bigger, not smaller. In 1984, 37% of these degrees went to women vs. just 18% in 2013. No such line of sight exists between taking algebra, calculus, or computer science and a job as a successful, well-paid data scientist, software developer, or chief technologist.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. Self-coaching guides for Career Women: Women and Time (ebook for $.99 When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback $13.41 . Tosi on April 1, 2013.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It is one of most successful companies in the world. Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. Coding for success. “We know from experience how hard it is to find senior software developers.

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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. Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” Herminia Ibarra.

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