Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. General Business'

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. These have coincided with a clear desire from the government to try and lead the 4th industrial revolution.

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HR Digest

APRIL 27, 2019

It noted that 44 percent of employees suffered retaliation after reporting wrongdoing of some kind – up from 22 percent in 2013. Even worse, employees typically don’t report retaliation via internal hotlines. A 2019 Hotline and Incident Management Benchmark Report states that only 1.18

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. After the 2013 Yahoo data breach and the recent Equifax hack, operating without proper security measures in place is no longer acceptable. What’s surprising is how so many businesses still take information security lightly.

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CO2

JUNE 24, 2013

The Tribal Leadership authors believe that 25% of teams operate at Stage Two. Gallup finds even more alarming data in their 2013 report on employee engagement: State of the American Workplace. Long-term performance isn’t sustainable, however. This is a significant drain on talent and productivity within the workforce.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

Their key stakeholders (bosses, colleagues, direct reports, spouses, and others who work with them closely) do. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. This “pay-for-results” idea wasn’t mine.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Metrics 130

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. In the absence of a guiding vision, good ideas represent low hanging fruit that unfocused leaders reflexively reach for, especially when pressured to report visible success. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. by Nathan Magnuson.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. This has made the once-fabled unicorn a much more frequent sight, with recent valuations hitting the frothy heights of 40-50 times revenue. trillion at the time of writing.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

News & World Report picked HPU in 2014 as #1 among up and coming schools and the #1 regional college in the south. And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. Walk the campus and Nido’s bright vision and boundless passion flow from every detail.

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

February 4, 2013. Participants would try his principles during the week and report their astonishing successes back at the next class (if they could wait that long). © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2013

While many requirements necessitate one-time actions, others govern ongoing business operations. Compliance with regulatory requirements governing ongoing, dynamic operations benefit from dedicated performance measures. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Where are we?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

As a shareholder of several companies, I receive many updates and reports. Even though I know how to dissect the financials and pull out any relevant ratios, I’m not satisfied with the story that these reports tell me. Much better, but the reporting still has a way to go. Nor, I’d suggest, are most shareholders.

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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. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2013

We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Reports reveal painful truth despite ‘incontrovertible proof’ that women are key to business, economic & societal growth. America ranks number six in women’s economic participation and opportunity on the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Gender Gap Index of 136 countries. It’s a painful revelation. “At

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 11, 2013

We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Furthermore, the fixed publication frequency of performance monitoring reports may preclude leaders from receiving action-prompting information in a timely manner. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Automating performance notifications, triggered at the time of occurrence, can help alleviate these issues.

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Metrics Article System Newsletter 52

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

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. All rights reserved.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Loneliness Index: 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out. 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out (Cigna US Loneliness Index, 2018). 29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013).

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How To Bond Positioning Stress 106

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2013

Amongst the most widely deployed business applications today, Sales Force Automation (SFA) offers a goldmine of operational sales data, yet built-in reporting and analytics are oftentimes inadequate to answer meaningful questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

However, like any non-universally accepted standard, there are gaps within the principle of the model itself, and even more flaws in the marketing actions taken based on the waterfall reporting structure. The issue here is that one singular report doesn’t get granular enough to make the next action more meaningful. About the Author.

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Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Although the name is “made up,” it broadened the brand and has strong connotations of movement and direction.

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Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. Studies have reported increased employee commitment, performance and job satisfaction. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

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…. How will those who report to you know?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You can ask yourself the questions below to get a good start and then you can and should regularly ask for direct or anonymous constructive feedback from your direct reports, peers, leader and others. You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. feedback report on their impact in the workplace and required to attend training. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Our real problem was we were not holding our leaders and staff accountable. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds.

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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