Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Throw a travel budget into the mix (average of $1,200) 2 and double your expenses for gas, and there you’ve got it, your discretionary budget is going, then gone to pay your new tax obligations. But, if you have unlimited, pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical expenses, anything over $2,500 will be taxed starting in 2013.

Budgeting 56

Budgeting Health Care Insurance Human Resources 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2014

The week between Christmas and the New Year is the biggest opportunity of your career. For me, it’s traveling to The Great Wall of China. List grateful acts of 2013. And your New Year’s Eve plans are in the way of next year’s success. It amazes me how much “prep time” goes into “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?”.

Customer Loyalty 50

Customer Loyalty Document Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. For example, if an employee is constantly travelling, you might consider assigning them to a desk job until life stabilizes. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Efficiency 50

Efficiency Short-term Long-term Stress 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

She’ll work a modified schedule and avoid work-related travel, but she’s opted against taking a long sabbatical; by returning to work, according to reports, she’s hoping to provide a sense of normalcy to her children, ages 10 and 8. It’s a transition Sophie Vandebroek knows all too well.

Chief Technology Officer 8

Chief Technology Officer Travel Chief Operating Officer Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. The Thiel Foundation president points out that “the safe career track is totally broken.” This is true.

Development 8

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Her HBR book was named a best business book of 2012 by Fast Company, she gave an acclaimed TED talk, and she was given the Thinkers50 “Future Thinker” award in 2013. I asked her how she decided to blow up her life mid-career — again — and make the leap. Mid-Career Crisis. And then… Paris.

Advice 8

Advice Learning-by-Doing Travel Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

These skills are augmented by the help of Dr. Tim Butler's CareerLeader , which helps students understand and plan for a fulfilling career, not just a one-off job. Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013."

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. Establish channels between possible partners.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

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.)

Policies 8

Policies Creativity Report Fashion 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 "). I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden.

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Before I left Partners to join the Commonwealth Fund in 2013, we had chosen the EHR and begun the rollout of the new IT infrastructure.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8