The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. As labor market reforms have come and gone in the meantime, the general length of the working day has stubbornly endured.

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Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

For instance, Target has run marketing campaigns that glorify do-it-yourself alternatives, while IKEA has become synonymous with enabling consumers to do the work themselves. Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets. However, some organizations have been able to capitalize on self-reliance.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As her company grew, Mitchell realized she needed to balance her stress-inducing style of focusing on the destination with reminders to enjoy the journey–not just for her sake, but for the benefit of everyone around her. Here are three of her keys to combating stress and burnout that resonate with me: Scrap the Map.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As her company grew, Mitchell realized she needed to balance her stress-inducing style of focusing on the destination with reminders to enjoy the journey–not just for her sake, but for the benefit of everyone around her. Here are three of her keys to combating stress and burnout that resonate with me: Scrap the Map.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How to Stress-Test Your Strategy. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job. Never take the blame. All rights reserved.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. She spoke at my Extreme Leadership Summit in 2013, and I became a fan for life. So what is a real thought leader?

Rogers 61

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 61

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 31, 2012

He is the author of four books, his latest: Inspired People Produce Results – (McGraw Hill 2013). This creates emotional and psychological stresses and problems that go beyond the workplace and may last for some time. Jeremy holds bachelors and masters degrees from Columbia International University. Learn from others.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Team Short-term How To 52

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. She spoke at my Extreme Leadership Summit in 2013, and I became a fan for life. So what is a real thought leader?

Rogers 40

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 40

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. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” He further stresses that a “professional does not merely work; he/she has to be educated and trained, (socialized) as member of an occupational domain, supervised by his/her peers and held accountable.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They break under stress. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer "anti-fragile" — that is, they get stronger when stressed? Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. No Decision.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last week Chen Demin, China's commerce minister, offered an upbeat outlook for China's overall 2013 economy , forecasting steady improvement in domestic consumption and investment, and predicting that foreign direct investment over the coming year would also remain stable. On its own, Wuxi has a population of 2.3 million people and 1.5

Class 9

Class Construction GDP Report 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Furthermore, Blink Booking had to make the app available in multiple languages to draw in a European market. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. No Decision.

CRM 9

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. So it still pays to be good at math in today’s labor market, but it’s often no longer enough. So why are social skills so prized in today’s labor market? labor force over the past three decades.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Know your team's goals and stress points. More information helps the team feel engaged in the process, and reduces anxiety and stress. But remember, under extreme stress, not everyone will recall and be able to act on those scenarios. Everest on Twitter ( @scottderue ), and at the Alpine Ascents Everest 2013 blog.

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Team Uncertainty Stress Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley? This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. As difficult, stressful, and crazy as Englishnization has been, it has been the right move for Rakuten. Would you communicate with your compliance department that way?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

If word-of-mouth is so vital to the success of a business, why are so many dollars spent on marketing and advertising? Tosi on April 1, 2013. The single most important factor in buying decisions: positive word-of-mouth and referrals from happy existing customers. Improving the Quality of Your Life By Author M.B.

Advertising 70

Advertising eBook Career Comparison 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This happiness is due to the fact that Haier [has] created a platform for everyone to fully exploit their potential and realize their value, rather than taking orders passively or bearing huge stress. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Before you know it, you’re on deadline again.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information?

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

market has witnessed a substantial rise of activist investors. According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Over the last three years the U.S. Example: Jolly Inc.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. “If we don’t think the market income is high enough let’s top that up,” he suggested. eBay is a recent example. which refunds money to low-income workers.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume. On a smaller scale, the brain treats any kind of volatility as stress.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. This is not just true for the U.S. in the U.S., but our exports may decline. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8