Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Of those 8 functional areas, 5 of them are led by senior executives who are in their 60s and expected to retire within the next 3 – 5 years. The other 3 are led by senior executives in their mid-50s. Throughout the program, and in between sessions, participants were assigned projects to lead and had to complete required readings.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

At the end of a particularly long and grueling strategy meeting with the executive team of a major consumer services business, Alan, the chief executive officer, turned to me and said, “Living quarter by quarter is madness, but in a few years’ time people will laugh at us for developing three-year plans.” He was right.

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Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Company executives were split on the matter.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? Suppressing Innovation. About the Author.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

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. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward.

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Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution. About the Author.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But when the authors led 15 executives through a variation on the classic Start/Stop/Continue exercise — where they inventoried what they actually did each day, judged which tasks mattered most to them and their organization, and dropped or delegated the rest — they found they could free up as much as 20% of their time.

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Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

But Donald Marchand and Joe Peppard have found that when Big Data and analytics projects are implemented like other major IT initiatives, they often fail to produce the results desired by executives. Ultimately, businesses need to focus on the business problem and choose the technology that best addresses that problem.

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Project Technology Information Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” An idea is certainly a promising start, but executing it while holding down a busy fulltime job is undoubtedly a challenge. ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Other senior executives have left as well. GE is hardly the only company to run into performance issues and sooner-than-expected executive departures in the midst of a huge digital transformation effort. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” It took a lot of pressure off the team so they could focus on execution and not on cost.”

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013. Getty Images.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business.

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Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception. I recently spoke with an HR executive at a Fortune 500 packaging firm in the Midwest whose annual budget for the entire high-potential development program was $10,000. That is not a vote of confidence. Unfortunately, a lot of e-learning is just plain awful.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Rather than setting out to execute an initiative, we focused on growing a movement. Think tools, not rules.

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Media Incubator Download COO 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

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? Insight Center.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. In the past few weeks, a cannabis-focused private equity firm hired a former DEA agent and a publicly traded marijuana company brought on a former executive at Yahoo and Microsoft as its president. The list goes on. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. Agile Talent. Add to Cart.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It''s worth remembering the revolutionary idea that started the whole thing: that people — executives in particular — would want to check their email away from the office, a notion that seemed preposterous until BlackBerrys were put into the hands of the likes of Michael Dell, one of the first people to order one.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But an unlimited-vacation-days perk misses the point.

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Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Rather than setting out to execute an initiative, we focused on growing a movement. Think tools, not rules.

Media 9

Media Incubator Download COO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

CRM 9

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Even HR itself agrees.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11