Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Projects are always short. He currently advises start-ups and established companies on brands, creative talent, e-commerce, and digital media strategy. Ken is on the boards of Thrift Books LLC and Good Men Media, Inc. Repeating success is about the journey. Leading is about tone and substance. Careers can be short or long.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Organize visit exchanges with peers in other companies in your field – you can find them at conferences, in journals and blogs, or via social media like LinkedIn.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If the popularity of social media has taught us anything, it is that people like to be heard. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste. Shift Your Understanding. As human beings we value our own opinions, and we want others to value them as well. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Online surveys, social media and voice-of-the-customer events all help to ensure that a fact-based understanding of customer needs drives the company forward. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. No longer was Universal just the more exciting cousin of Disney.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the wake of digital disruption, new media companies are seeking scale and legitimacy, while old media companies explore new business models. The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. These behaviors tend more toward the publisher end of the spectrum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Some of us decided to try, and last year for the first time we put out the idea of “Giving Tuesday” – or, more properly styled for the age of social media, #GivingTuesday. With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. Learn from experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Later that evening, Davis announced his retirement on social media , saying “today on the field, reality hit me hard and fast: I shouldn’t be out there anymore.” When Vontae Davis walked off the field at halftime, the Buffalo Bills were down 28-6 to the Los Angeles Chargers. How Good Are You at Quitting?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily. So venture out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

” For both workers and employers, the boomerang represents “a positive development,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of several best-selling titles, including How Will You Measure Your Life? Do: Project maturity by acting more formal and reserved in your first few weeks on the job to showcase how you’ve grown.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Media reports during the recession indicated that employer requirements were increasing sharply, with popular headlines touting “ Degree Inflation? project management), specialized skills (e.g., Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

From about the age of seven onward, however, we develop the capacity for perspective-taking. They simulate our experience of complexity using many different media: their role is integrative — to make meaning. Leadership development Managing people Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. At P&G, then-CEO Bob McDonald was asked to leave by his board, as was Ford CEO Mark Fields.

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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). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. Business development. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” We’ll see advanced bots manipulating social media and stocks simultaneously. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind schedule, coauthor Brandeau had to figure out how to finish both projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind schedule, coauthor Brandeau had to figure out how to finish both projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. Free wifi places are fine as social gathering spots, but the random non-working others who share that space surely won't help you find new colleagues or generate development leads. And for good reason. They make starting a business simpler.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 But every region of the world will participate in the trend, including Africa, which the African Development Bank estimates already has a middle class of more than 300 million people. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. billion in 2009 to 3.2

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. To make the exercise feasible and affordable, they turned to Columbia University, which developed a new algorithm for fast carbon footprinting. Five Questions For 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

TPP’s high quality rules and new competition will also help economic reformers across the Pacific, from an aging Japan that needs structural changes for its economy to grow, to a rising Vietnam that needs an international legal framework to develop further. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. About 60% of U.S. manufacturing.

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