Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2015

Indeed, maintaining self-control and self-discipline when facing challenges at work and at home, or when aspiring toward ambitious future goals and objectives, can be among the most difficult life skills to manage and master—but it’s also one of the most impactful. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Self-aware Development Competitive Advantage Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. While this number was comparable to the percentage of women executives at Fortune 500 healthcare companies in 2015, it was not a number we were proud of. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. We went all-in.

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Positioning Leadership Health Care Diversity 12

Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2015, shortly before Amazon bought Whole Foods, co-CEO John Mackey is faced with a plummeting stock price and is under fire. Colleagues and managers are more likely to see the quiet latent dissenter as disloyal and, surprisingly, as more verbally aggressive and argumentative. First up is courage.

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 169

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

Taco Ekkel, the division manager told me, “We would need four scheduled calls to accomplish what we get solved around a white board in an hour. A face-to-face meeting might be needed for a brainstorming discussion about ways to alter a product’s design. Without the Summits it would definitely slow things down.”

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Drucker Brainstorming Globalization Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Factors that lead to resilience include optimism; the ability to stay balanced and manage strong or difficult emotions; a sense of safety and a strong social support system. It’s important to understand and manage some of the factors that cause us to feel so overwhelmed and stressed at work.

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Stress Agility Globalization Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law. A Race to the Bottom.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford.

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