Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Lencioni Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. The marketing waterfall only tracks 1/4 of all potential revenue objectives. The marketing waterfall leans heavily on the customer acquisition objective. A marketing waterfall “lead” is a faceless customer. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By developing an accurate view of, and aptly managing, one’s own emotional responses to situations, the rest of you skills and talents are magnified and leveraged. You are confident based on an objective, not assumed point of view. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ask yourself, do I…? Or Do I…?

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

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. Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

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Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! Get to know others Develop a process to strengthen communication within and between departments Develop a process to strengthen collaboration (information sharing, best practices) within and between departments. Additionally the team must develop 3 to 6 possible problems.

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Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Set objectives and size. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” Whole Foods, on the other hand, has a much looser culture.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Clearly there is a first mover advantage in some cases: Chris Brogan developed a passionate following as an early blogger, and Guy Kawasaki jumped onboard Twitter and became a powerhouse there. But even anecdotally, you probably have some good operating theories. Establishing ROI has always been the holy grail of social media.

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Media First-mover Advantage Early Adopters ROI 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica invested in digitizing all that data and combining it with data supplied by its customers, including the objectives of the blast, conditions of equipment at the site, the exact techniques and products used in the blast, and the outcome. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

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. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation. . Do you have a strong work ethic?’”

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Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

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). Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

The entrepreneur takes risks but does not see himself as a risktaker, because he operates under the useful delusion that what he''s attempting is not risky. Hirschman said, "This sentence admirably epitomizes several of the histories of economic development projects in recent decades. with the established communities to the East.".

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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?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Quantum computing.

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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. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2014

Clayton (Clay) Daniels is VP of Operations , Midwest Service & Solutions at Kansas City-based U.S. Engineering in November 2013. However, the leadership skills necessary to motivate and inspire teams to accomplish their goals and objectives in the business world are relatively the same as they are in the Army.

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Engineering Servant Leader Learning-by-Doing Skills 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

. “For the sake of your team, you need to stop,” says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room and managing partner of Paravis Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. The first step is to develop an awareness of why you micromanage. ” Here are some pointers on how to let go.

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Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But the government seems to have failed in meeting this objective. billion annually in currency operations costs. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change. Moreover, smaller cities in India had larger problems.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Researchers asked almost 2,500 workers to analyze medical images for “objects of interest.” ” They told one group that the work would be discarded; they told the other group that the objects were “cancerous tumor cells.” That’s high-ToMo.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Business development. Learn when deadline crunch time is best to accomplish the optimum business objectives. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Ongoing maintenance/development of metrics and reports are highly reliant on the knowledge and skills of a single individual. Many individuals believe exceptions are used to artificially inflate reported performance; most notably because of the recoding that occurs to place previously counted objects into excluded categories.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. An empowered workforce must support the corporate objective, and the art with which it does spells success.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

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.” The takeaway is not, then, that women should forego developing the skills that build their confidence and bolster their performance.

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Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Document Influence 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

As the company added more titles and expanded its product line, it developed an ecosystem rooted in the wholesale purchase of goods; huge, strategically located fulfillment centers; and contracts with national and regional carriers who shipped its products throughout the U.S. and to other countries.

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Business Model Retail Airlines Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. Our development team went Agile. Also, PBS is the opposite of a top-down company. ” Crucially, we delivered business results.

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. Much like Welch’s famed “#1 or #2” objective for each of this businesses, Alibaba’s governance inspired its subsidiaries to be the leaders of their respective industries. Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Going forward, we will localize… We will produce for the U.S.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8