Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

64 Shots : Leadership in a Crazy World by Kevin Roberts In 64 Shots, Roberts draws on the biggest ideas, toughest experiences and greatest influences of his life to present 16X4 stripped down, straight-forward and instantly-absorbable insights on how to bring order to the chaos of business and life. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? Models are verbal descriptions and visual representations of how systems work and processes flow. Because of the economy and relentless competition, 2013 will be the year that many companies have to re-discover the lost art of win-loss analysis.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. Find out how in this quick guide! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. by Ultimate Software. Consider leaving a comment!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

First, they must know how to effectively scale people—helping key individuals make a massive impact across the entire organization. In 2013 she left Netflix to become head of human resources at Coursera, and, later, Chief People Officer at Scopely, a leading player in the mobile gaming industry. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) Gordon Berridge: Did you have a mentor at Rio Tinto, if so, how important was that person to you and your development? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Finance Sustainability' Later stage clean energy investments — like projects to deploy wind and solar — have remained somewhat more popular than early-stage start-ups, but are nonetheless down in recent years.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It’s not because they want to lose their jobs but simply because good leaders know that empowering employees to assume responsibility and make decisions will result in an environment where they are needed less so that they may have the time to think strategically and discover how to take the organization to the next level.

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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. And several programs stand out as examples of how this can be done.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I slowly continued clearing dishes off the table while deciding how to maneuver around this potential minefield. ” As parents, we often don’t know how to talk to our kids about money. Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. There are techniques for tackling fully clashing models from different knowledge domains.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Exactly how that will work is still being sorted out, with regulators at the Fed as well as federal and state agencies working behind the scenes to incorporate the cryptocurrency into their regulatory frameworks. In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Finance Government Technology' When companies like Mt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08 Cuts to 2013 budget : $209 Million or 5%. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Let’s look at how The Salvation Army, a 150-year-old Christian charity that provides a variety of social services across the U.S. In 2013, Habitat used its frontline calculations to create a new strategic plan aimed at materially affecting the housing deficit through a combination of advocacy and market development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Regardless, good grades get you into college, and knowing how to work gets you into a happy life.” Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how. Some of it you will.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Management’s challenge is to figure out how to capture the benefits of digitization, while minimizing the costs – and making sure those costs are shared and not borne disproportionately by one group. They want to encourage distributed decision-making and empower middle management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And once they know what they want, how can they convince hiring managers that their skills will translate — especially if they’re not quite sure they will? He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. Indeed, close to half of veterans leave their first civilian job within a year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As Pew Internet reports : Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. It was established with the recognition that education is the cornerstone of personal and economic growth. and make satisfactory academic progress. This ensures that recipients remain committed to their studies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

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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). One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And yes, it can be difficult to navigate our nation's evolving campaign finance laws. Employers should never tell employees how to vote. And I don't see a problem in that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Icahn, who made that mistake at TWA back in the 1980s and early 1990s , doesn’t claim these days to know how to run the companies he targets. For a guide to some of those steps, see “ How to Outsmart Activist Investors ” in the HBR archive. )

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran. However, remaining U.S. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

If we can define what organizational culture is , it gives us a handle on how to diagnose problems and even to design and develop better cultures. Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. The cultures of organizations are never monolithic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Every team decides as a unit how to distribute their portion of profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. This is because self-service, which requires ad network customers to pre-pay, forces app developers to use credit cards to finance their app advertising campaigns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance. Now, IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Google, as well as D-Wave, are trying to figure out how to advance and commercialize the technology.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. ” Once you have a list of necessary skills, figure out how to acquire them. For example, if knowing how to build websites will be important to your new venture, see if your current job will subsidize a class in web design that will also help you in your current job. Herminia Ibarra.

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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. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

proprietary data shows that the smallest businesses have been growing revenues the fastest: In 2013 alone, micro business revenue on average grew by 2.14% while small business revenue grew by 1.18%. The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. You’re right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

The tone from the top is what defines how people talk — to each other and to customers and clients. 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. Or is it unconscious?

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