Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. Blog Post ). Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. How exactly are potential supporters influenced by these factors? and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s a truth that becomes all the more obvious when we remember that the key to your organization’s success and future prosperity is no longer based solely on the processes and technologies found within your company’s walls, but within the talents, insights, and experiences of those you lead.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

The contribution of technology in improving customer experience is well documented, but little has been done in using it for enriching workplace experiences. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources. Digital technologies forced-disruption of all that.

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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. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. The best way to influence and lead others, they say, is to begin with warmth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

It's that time of year again — time to take a stab at what's going to matter in the year ahead as technology continues to influence how we work and live. In no particular order, here are six social-digital trends to watch in 2013: The Content Economy Content may become your company's most valuable asset in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. Influencers improve engagement. It sounds obvious, but it’s so important that it has to be said.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Influencing skills. She provides clients of all sizes strategic direction and implementation of programs and strategies around projects, process, people and technology. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013). Collaborative decision making and problem solving. Team leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Against the technological backdrop described above, it’s more important than ever that the modern knowledge worker makes good business decisions based on good information: factual, unbiased, broad-based.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 5, 2013

The way we look at things and the beliefs we hold about them influence what we choose to do and how we choose to behave when we’re doing it. For example, organizations in 2013 include people from three generations, each with their own set of experiences and expectations. Attitude is a big deal.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. But, there’s still too big of a gap. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A 2013 Harvard study also revealed that when researchers told participants that the physiological signs of stress prepared them to cope better they became less anxious and more confident in stressful situations, viewing their stress response as helpful. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan. Monique Valcour.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

So we partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways on a field experiment to understand how the behavior of employees—in this case, airline captains—influences fuel efficiency, and how low-cost company interventions can influence their behavior. Importantly, however, captains in this group reported 6.5%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. The intelligent use of data will have a transformative influence on all points of care. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In my research, I use eye-tracking technology, facial-expression analysis, and lab experiments to better understand why people choose to view online videos, what narrative techniques keep them watching, and what features prompt them to share videos with friends. million views (60% of which were the direct result of influencers'' actions).

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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. Below, you will find the most frequently mentioned responses prioritized from most to least important.

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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. Can Technology End Poverty? Please join the conversation and check back for regular updates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Technological challenges. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). Some technological challenges remain for all marketplaces in 2015, but in Rhode Island we have largely worked through them. Burwell, the U.S.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Provide information to your leaders on the market, the industry, customers, competitors and new technologies that influence your business. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. On the other hand, the technologists looking to differentiate their platforms are drawn by the voice and influence of publishing. But these differences are largely cultural. Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Though many purchases influenced by mobile are completed on other channels (e.g. Without any way to credit mobile''s influence on purchases, it''s impossible to determine the ROI on mobile ads. According to the 2013 Maritz Loyalty Report, 91 percent of customers in loyalty programs are likely to download a loyalty program app.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% It is a shame.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Though many purchases influenced by mobile are completed on other channels (e.g. Without any way to credit mobile’s influence on purchases, it’s impossible to determine the ROI on mobile ads. Advertising Technology' Cookies can’t do that well on mobile apps. Lack of a closed loop. Ineffective ad formats.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. As Adesina takes the helm of AfDB, he has a unique opportunity to lead inclusive growth in Africa, and influence a world looking for markets that better serve people.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” Professionalism demands the capacity to internally organize and protect “professional practices from external influences.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Mobile technology presents all marketers with a tantalizing proposition. While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. Monetize mobile media?.

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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. Below, you will find the most frequently mentioned responses prioritized from most to least important.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 2013, compared to 2.5% The need to disseminate technology. in 1992.

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