Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Love the reference to True North…a journey my company is taking. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives.

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Creativity Mentor Follow-up Objective 223

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. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Risk management and compliance.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. References. Stereotypes and skewed perceptions remain powerful and still impede the advancement of women.

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Diversity Competitive Advantage Participative Committee 66

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. References: Cosgrove, T.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The punchy insights into winning - hitting readers lightly jab after jab - are an array of one-liners, sound bites, tweets, charts, quotes and historical reference points. Best Leadership Books of 2013. They are loaded with Roberts' experience, story, brio, provocation and direction. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hiring firms can get “inside” information about a candidate from their referring employee, while the referral itself serves as a vouching mechanism that signals a candidate’s competency or trustworthiness. But firms that rely on current employees to refer new hires could end up with a less diverse workforce.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. At the same time, it will offer the options to either refer an employee or to send the advertisement to a friend. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They want to operate where they are most comfortable. Reference. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Be warned, toxic people don’t like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. They will not set the boundaries for you. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Competitive Advantage Bottom-up Airlines Project 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. In other words, waste is not trash to be thrown out; it refers to the events, phenomena, experiences, and features that diminish our capacity to do what matters to us. Consider leaving a comment!

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc…. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together.

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Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. According to Reuters reporting , until a few years ago the bank operated in Sudan, a country whose government was under U.S. sanctions, like Iran.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt. She signed on as a low-level machine operator at a Bangalore factory in 2012, but working in the formal sector for the first time was fraught with challenges. India’s biggest garment export firm.

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Company Training Bottom-up Rate of Return 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

It relegates your brand to subordinate status compared to the brand used as your reference point – and it tells customers that your brand possesses only comparative value, rather than having its own inherent value. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. How – personality.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. It tells you something you can’t learn from resumes, interviews, or reference checks. This post is adapted from a talk by the author at the December 2013 Lean Startup Conference. . Automattic employs 225 people. An HBR Insight Center.

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Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. To find out, I like to ask questions. But security?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In fact, the whole second half of the book we outline what we call our 12 rules for big bang disruption, and those are kind of sequenced along our new replacement to the bell curve which you referred to before as the shark fin. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. There’s lots of things.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 The marketplaces also have played an important role in referring eligible Americans for Medicaid coverage. This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing. Both the FFM and the SBMs have had to overcome major operational hurdles.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Huggy Rao and I like to refer to scaling challenges as the “ Problem of More ” because they always involve getting some existing seed of excellence to take root in more people and more places. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. The language of “more” pervades discussions of the topic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. Yet in a lean month, we have sufficient revenue to cover the core expense "nut" without depleting savings or relying on borrowed operational funds. The commission structure encourages transparency and team participation. On the whole, our employees have applauded our structure.

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Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Martin, quoting Peter Senge, refers to the problem that in situations of dynamic complexity, the links between causes and effects are “subtle.” This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. This is our ability for integrative thinking.

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Gallup''s 2013 State of the American Workplace study found that as many as 70% of working Americans were unfulfilled with their jobs, 18% to such an extent that they are actively undermining their co-workers. We live in a time of chronic dissatisfaction in the workplace. A higher purpose, a mission, a cause.

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Career Project Planning Skills 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Relationships with referring physicians and the emergency medical services community were broken. But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. If we fell short, the operations subcommittee had to correct the shortfall rapidly.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

India, with its 462 million internet users , has a digital economy representing arguably the greatest market potential for global players ; however, it operates in multiple languages and multiple infrastructure challenges, despite the government having taken sweeping actions that affect the digital market.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Having acknowledged the ambiguity built into our methods, we will refer to “Arab inventors” throughout this article. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 especially those with R&D operations. It turns out that the U.S. million immigrants.

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Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. On the other, they acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to operate above the political fray. This type of peer advocacy is a win-win proposition.

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Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 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. ” On page 529, there is one parenthetic reference to “stock options.”

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. .” In the immortal words of Brexiteer Michael Gove, “People in this country have had enough of experts.” in the U.S.,

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