Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable part of organizational life. Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. AnthonyRosenberg/Getty Images. Recent research does not support this idea.

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Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Trend-Driven Innovation , as detailed in our book of the same name, is the end-to-end process of tracking changes in these expectations to make sure that your products, services or experiences don’t fall behind. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Innovations.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. The tribe had its own management, goals and infrastructure. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. A successful DoD senior-acquisition program manager and test leader, Matt has earned documented success in the areas of test and evaluation, assessment, technology development and flight operations.

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. He argued that it would not only protect the rights of a diverse workforce but also foster innovation: “Embracing people’s individuality is a matter of basic human dignity and civil rights. state-level ENDAs on corporate patent-based innovation.

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Innovation GDP Human Capital Creativity 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

We are not the political party we vote for. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Project Management Best Practice 1 – The Project Management Intensity Continuum. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. Certainly, we are not the church, synagogue, or mosque to which we belong.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war. Brazil, France, Switzerland, the UK, and other places. Build bonds to strengthen trust.

Politics 11

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. ” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Here are four observations about managing engagement in the digital age.

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. How is an Uber manager to know which laws should be followed and which ignored?

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

So you have to innovate, do things better, and customer service becomes more important. 82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. One thing is identifying the customer and what product offerings you want to make — there, the innovation piece is really important.

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Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Anyone who has hiring responsibilities in 2013 would like to think that the U.S. The reality is that while your company may manage diversity, it probably doesn''t hold anyone accountable for whether your applicants and employees are treated fairly and without regard to gender, race, and ethnicity in hiring and promotion decisions.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Benchmarking Handbook 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. kevin phillips/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Isaacson examines too the role of the organizational forms within which innovation takes place—like Bell Labs.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Innovation in Cities. Self-interest is a powerful force nudging all asset owners—whatever their political affiliation—to adapt. Insight Center.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China’s Next Great Transition. An HBR Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In countries without policies that facilitate conciliation, managers overwhelmingly think that women "choose" family commitments over work. The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you in a broken professional relationship — with a manager, coworker, or employee — hoping the other person assumes blame and fixes the issue? Many managers perceive them as needing guidance, structure, and constant feedback. The origination of the failed concept — his or not — did not matter.

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Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. He predicts that Sears will be a big loser.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Let’s borrow some language from political philosophy and think in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. During the next several months, managers should discuss how to include accountability systems for algorithms.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. They — and not parasitic hedge-fund managers like Carl Icahn — are the value creators.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Most Americans — and both political parties — have come around to the view that attracting skilled immigrants is good for the U.S. A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability.

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Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. The share of U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies. The Political Response to Robots. Donald Trump won the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10