Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! I wish I could mentor everyone who applied.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

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. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Additionally, external research was gathered/conducted about a variety of companies in the same and similar industries to determine what were generally considered as key skills and knowledge for executives. 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

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting?

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By 2003, not all industrial companies were fully committed to accommodating their organizations to new tools and following the principles described in Experimentation Matters. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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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. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening. When I read it, I thought, well, there’s something here that’s tingling my spider senses. LARRY: Sure.

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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. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the U.S. About the Author.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. We call this super-sector “advanced industries.”

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." To start, try eliminating customer pain points.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant. Competition for dependence.

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Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Companies in all industries are trying to capitalize on the Big Data revolution with the belief that the ability to collect and quickly analyze huge streams of data will provide new insights, better decisions, and a better customer experience. Tune in now to learn how you can make your IT projects successful in 2013.

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Project Technology Information Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Quota Attainment Average. Field Sales Revenue Trends.

Metrics 11

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." To start, try eliminating customer pain points.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

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Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 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. Tech industry'

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. You won’t have a lot of money.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. Moving from a daily metro newspaper to a “pot” publication caused some head-scratching among many acquaintances – even though I was entering a $1 billion-plus industry at the time. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

GE recently announced that it would sell off most of GE Capital , ending a decades-long experiment with becoming more about money and less about industrial manufacturing (for most of the last 15 years, the capital side of the business contributed nearly half the company’s earnings). But even the cloud has a very real and physical basis.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Her company has the bold goal to attract and train hundreds of thousands of new networking professionals by offering certification courses in networking technology and other training resources. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

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Discount Training Insurance Education 14

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.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 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.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

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. Currently, too many approaches are based on intuition, anecdotes, and evidence from contexts that don’t directly map to the tech industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. “We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.”

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Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

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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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

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?” Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. It will disrupt entire industries.

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Trends Film Technology Software 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 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. How do you design a hospital? The Launch.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects.

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers?

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Not bad for a 24-year-old who joined IBM straight out of college.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. At launch, they cost about 10-12% of median monthly income, far less than desktops (40%) and notebooks (50%) of the same general era. Bendgate, anyone?) Will Geniuses be replaced with trend-setting fashion consultants?

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Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 12