Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them. When Pixar focuses on making great films, profit follows.

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Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

Change Starts Here

JUNE 19, 2013

Similar workshops I’ve conducted privately for clients have enabled leadership and project teams to gain clarity about the change they want to implement and to figure out how they can influence the desired change effectively. In this working session, you will apply the Irresistible Change model on a real project or initiative.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders.

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Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

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. Here’s the list.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

leaderCommunicator

MARCH 3, 2015

The highly publicized “Zero Email Initiative” at the global technology firm Atos is just one glaring example of what’s possible for companies looking to significantly curb email use. The zero email project evolved after the company realized the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails. “My

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

The 2013 program runs from March 6 to May 1. Content will supply human service managers, team leaders, and team members with tools and techniques to create effective and energized work teams. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development Community Connections of New York. WHO SHOULD APPLY.

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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

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. This lack of work applicable skills is seeing a shift in the way skills are taught in a wide range of fields.

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Education Software Skills Engineering 59

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

Hirschman believed that people don''t seek out challenges; they are "apt to take on and plunge into new tasks because of the erroneously presumed absence of a challenge--because the task looks easier and more manageable than it will turn out to be." . Hirschman and the power of failure" by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, June 24, 2013.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. -Daniel Kahneman. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter).

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world. million.

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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. Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 59

Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Organizational performance measurement systems are complex constructs that significantly impact leadership decisions, employee behaviors, and management processes and systems. Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If integrated and organized correctly, social collaboration technology can become a game-changer that empowers both employer and employee. Ajay Kaul, managing partner at AgreeYa Solutions , brings over 25 years of experience in sales, staffing, and IT project management for clients throughout the world. About the Author.

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Productivity Products Learning Curve Media 86

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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. When we conceived AdKarma – an online advertising yield optimization service – we acknowledged that it was a completely new business model born out of technology and innovation. It was clear it needed a tribal approach.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert. In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. He was right. As military experts put it, plans rarely survive contact with the enemy.

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Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. that has both organizational and technological components. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

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. Resource Management Warning Flag 3 – Marginalizing Employee Contributions. About the Author. Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

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. Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Modern Indentured Servitude.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Here's an example: January: Focus on your top goals for the year by setting up an Evernote notebook for each of your major projects or areas of responsibility. This will be a lot easier if you've used a single tag like "deliverable" or "highlight" to flag any note you used to summarize a major project or draft a significant deliverable.

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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. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Managing Yourself Make Time for the Work That Matters Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen How much time do you spend each day on the work that really matters? The knowledge workers the authors interviewed in 39 companies spent a jaw-dropping 41% of their time on those low-value pursuits.

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Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

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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