Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s a truth that becomes all the more obvious when we remember that the key to your organization’s success and future prosperity is no longer based solely on the processes and technologies found within your company’s walls, but within the talents, insights, and experiences of those you lead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you're looking for marketing jargon in 2013, look no further than "native advertising." Not to sound alarmist, but if there is not a consistent definition (that includes both the technical format along with the content that is embedded within in), the confusion will cause challenges in the growth of online advertising.

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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. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

A bit of optimism but it's definitely cautious optimism. Definitely. 82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. And third, how do you interact with customers both personally and enabled by technology? What do you see as the mood at this year's Davos?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Technological challenges. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). Some technological challenges remain for all marketplaces in 2015, but in Rhode Island we have largely worked through them. Burwell, the U.S.

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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. Earlier this year we led a thought exercise for 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley technology company. ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

While there are varying definitions and disagreements among sociologists, a set of criteria put forth by Mirko Noordegraaf, a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, is helpful. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. At times, I’ve been critical about the sometimes-loose definition of what GE “counts” as an ecomagination project (making oil sands production a bit cleaner, really?).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. M erged : different datasets are combined, exacerbating the problems relating to lack of definition and misaligned objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. ” “We could definitely see, after changing a display, the traffic really picking up there,” Yin explained. Decision making Retail Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Though the IRS chose to designate Bitcoin as property rather than currency, it accepted Treasury’s definition of a decentralized virtual currency, thereby beginning “to crystallize that framework of what Bitcoin is and how to think about it,” according to Farber.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. By definition they are not obvious. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. One way I do this is to use what I call the “-er brand” filter. Hyundai is an -er brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

And the definitions that do get offered can vary pretty dramatically. But he’s way off base when he implies that this is a widely accepted definition of “bubble.” Shiller’s list of symptoms may be helpful in diagnosing a bubble, but as a definition Brunnermaier’s is far better. Everyone can agree on this definition, right?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. Rosenfeld estimates that about a third of the rise in income inequality since the 1970s is due to unions’ decline — the same share that he attributes to economists’ favorite explanation for rising inequality, rising rewards to skilled workers due to technological change. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). What is a common definition of success?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. In fact, it''s the very definition of parity. Other companies pray that technology can save them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

My Patent Portfolio Is Bigger Than Your Patent Portfolio Google's Growing Patent Stockpile MIT Technology Review Google, which is on pace to collect some 1,800 patents this year, appears to be committed to amassing one of the world''s largest patent portfolios.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Technology was not yet powerful enough to capture much complexity. At the same time, it is the acknowledgement that simplistic "can do" thinking and linear approaches in organizations and markets, which are by definition complex, won''t be sufficient. And it is the prod to us to better understand why.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). How would you say “customer obsession” is different at Amazon from other definitions? Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look. Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. They will definitely find themselves under-challenged. Buoyed by economic growth, New Delhi also has a lot of money to invest in infrastructure, in medical services, in technology and more.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems. Metric and report definitions are undefined or vaguely defined. Technology Related Challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Perhaps the strategist Musk most sounds like is Columbia’s Rita Gunther McGrath, who in 2013 wrote a book titled The End of Competitive Advantage. Neither side of this debate is likely to be proven definitively right anytime soon. Musk couldn’t have tweeted it better. Consider Facebook’s competition with Snap.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Forrester survey data shows that interest in wearing a wrist-based computing or sensoring device had grown from an already-high 28% in 2013 to an impressive 42% in 2014, all before the Apple Watch was a thing. Other, highly-regarded smartwatches already exist, but now people are talking about Apple’s proposed definition of a smartwatch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

And this seems to be what customers want from online marketplaces: A study we published in 2013 found that when consumers move from brick-and-mortar video rental stores to online marketplaces, they are much more likely to choose niche titles instead of blockbusters. So not every program on Netflix is a broad appeal program.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. The most recent report from the FCC finds that at the end of 2013, 95% of all U.S. At least for voice services, the U.S. of all U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Some 90% of companies’ cloud activity is attributable to individual employees and small teams, rather than corporations’ business-technology groups. But the risks are definitely out there. Some of the sites they access are fine. Which is why companies can’t afford to be as hands-off as I am.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We surveyed how these trends might apply to the high-tech sector, looking at data through 2011 and using a broader definition for high-tech that stretches beyond software and Internet companies to include things like computer hardware, life sciences, aerospace, and scientific research. What we found surprised me.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations. billion).

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