Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

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. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. They are not afraid of uncertainty or ambiguity, they embrace it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Microzoa/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management". Detached observation requires a certain maturity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? That uncertainty doesn’t bother companies like Netflix, which exhibit a deep curiosity about their data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

All these steps are taken in an effort to eliminate their fears, reduce their uncertainties, and satisfy their doubts. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products. Administrivia.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

And as a management professor (Scott speaking here) this inevitably has led me to wonder how team dynamics will play out on the mountain — as my life may depend on it. Expressing uncertainty about the team leader's plan could be seen as defiant, inappropriate, or not being a "team player." I am about to climb Mount Everest.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. We asked them how many companies in Africa make over $100 million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Estimates of future income are full of uncertainty, and choosing an appropriate discount rate is often more art than science. During the dot-com era ( and long after ), Fama argued that the high prices of startups like Amazon.com and Pets.com could be justified as rational gambles in the face of great uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

His solution, in 2013, was to create a Facebook page called “Residents of Via Fondazza—Bologna” which he promoted by posting flyers in his neighborhood. But Bastiani and the others he had engaged in this project didn’t stop at the end of their own street. This remains true.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

All these steps are taken in an effort to eliminate their fears, reduce their uncertainties, and satisfy their doubts. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products. Administrivia.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. Second, digital is not just a thing that you can you can buy and plug into the organization.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Republican Governor Christie is a union supporter, who is up for re-election in November, 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Absolutely.

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