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AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) I will, of course, continue with my Charity and Arts connections. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. I have an open mind as to the field of endeavour of the organisations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles. Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery. This of course directly correlated to our proposal win-rate of only about 40% of the bids in our facilities related departments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Recommend Resources: While it may be tempting to give personal advice and to take charge of the problem, this is seldom an effective course of action. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Branches in the US accounted for roughly three-quarters of primary new account openings in 2013. Of course, banking customers do want all the convenience of digital, such as electronic bill payments and instant deposits via smartphone. Finance Internet Retail'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This of course begs the question: is this self-inflicted inter-domain complexity a problem? Ironically, we are crummy at dealing with it because of the predominance of narrow knowledge siloes – which are of course the self-same knowledge siloes that created the inter-domain complexity in the first place. Should we be worried about it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

You move out of your comfort zone, away from the known, and at every step you have to stop, reevaluate, and recalibrate your course. Vision” implies you have a view of exactly where you want to go and you chart a course accordingly, like plotting a journey on a map, a straightforward road with no distractions, roadblocks or alternate routes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

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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. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Fisher is of course infamous for declaring in 1929 that stock prices were not in a bubble but atop a “permanently high plateau.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the UN informs us that over the course of the 21 st century, Africa’s share of the world’s population will nearly double, from 13.1 So what can the rest of us do to spur the development of better finance, and take investment and corporate involvement to the next level? Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

One troublesome executive out of 41 or even 15 is not likely to be fatal – unless, of course, he is the CEO. The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. But when it’s a team of six? It’s a different story. Consider the case of a $30 million manufacturer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Of course, we all want to make good decisions, and it makes for an appealing can-do story to identify the job you want and land it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

This, of course, raises an obvious question: Why are so few CEOs skilled at capital allocation? As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy. The results are shown in exhibit 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. Of course, Atos didn’t ban electronic communication outright. percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery. Employees don't need to track all that activity by hand, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. Instead of marching into the marble halls of finance or consulting, some might consider leaping out to the frontiers of business. But it also sets you apart when thinking about markets at home.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Of course, traditional consultants and other providers of corporate advice are unlikely to disappear.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. And of course some of these fail spectacularly and end up hurting more than helping. And this was a slow year. But acquisitions can be risky business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). That’s something, but the bulk of the loss was of course borne by shareholders. Compensation Ethics Finance' million from $23 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. With more than two centuries of making everything from gunpowder to nylon and Tyvek, Dupont Co.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. As long as he gets the last laugh, of course. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. Icahn won that playground tussle. In 2012 it was $1.9

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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. On the first point, of course, running two business models in parallel implies duplication of resources and can lead to the growth of the SaaS model being hindered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations. "It finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy. ” Inspiring Creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

” It’s a question only you can answer, of course. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. Today he is the CEO of Medalogix, the Nashville-based health IT company, that has raised just under $7 million in financing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Help your employees be more data-savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

of course). But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

They were carefully chosen, of course. So most companies in traditionally male-dominated sectors (IT, finance, law, most heavy industry) are unwittingly speaking and selling “male” while they profess to want balance. .” He was horrified, and I hadn’t said a word. So far, so good.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Failure to engage developers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for measuring outcomes, and all providers must make specific tweaks in order to make it work for them. The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” That’s nice, but it’s not enough given the current costs of higher education (a single course can cost $5,000). I disagree with this priority.

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