Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Phrases like ‘Don’t rock the boat’ or ‘It’s not in the budget’ often serve to halt innovation and maintain the status quo.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 12, 2022

Institutional investors, such as hedge funds, are increasingly active in terms of their attempt to influence the direction of the firms they invest in. The hypothesis was tested using data collected on American companies between 2004 and 2015. Lasting impact. Talent loss.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

S INCE STEPPING DOWN as CEO of Cisco in 2015, John Chambers founded the venture capital firm JC2 Ventures specializing in startups. First, know where you are and define it in human terms. Additionally, “Do what’s necessary—ideally in one decisive move—to weather the tough times and stay focused on the long term.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 3, 2023

“But it’s also important to remember that sustainability can help make communities more competitive in the long term. Those communities with smaller fluctuations in employment, even if they experienced long-term job losses, showed greater engagement in sustainability planning, capabilities, and achievement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

To compete effectively, speed, innovation and intense customer focus are of essence. So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2021

. “It’s something these other actors could use in the future in terms of how they talk about these events on TV and in the news.” Indeed, in 2015 alone, Tanzania received around 400,000 people fleeing from Burundi. ” Dampening nationalism. “These [soccer games] are heightened times.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 21, 2023

Executive supply The researchers assess data from INPS, who are Italy’s social security bureau to understand the state of the Italian private sector workforce between 2005 and 2015. They then pair this with data from the balance sheets of those companies.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 30, 2013

Thank you University of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Business Executive MBA Class of 2015. Are you looking for team building and leadership development? Contact Mike or call 1.716.629.3678 to make your team and leadership better. michael cardus is create-learning.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2021

The pandemic has obviously wrought huge disruption to the labor market, both in terms of the jobs that are available and the skills required to fulfil them. The report reveals that while the UK does reasonably well in terms of training participation rates, the duration of these courses tends to be shorter than in other countries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 16, 2017

When organizations are short term focused or have executives making decisions based on data without understanding the processes generating that data in detail they will “hold people accountable” for bad data and drive fear into any thoughts of experimentation. Establish trust, that is going to lead to interest and focus.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2015

It doesn’t matter how intelligent or innovative your ideas are if no one can understand you. Asking questions and requesting clarification can go a long way towards avoiding long-term misunderstandings. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved. Present for Success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

By 2015 the total number of such groups in IBM was at least 244 around the world. Emotional groups, which represent communities of growth, are difficult to value in terms of their contribution to the organization, given their unpredictability, and it can be risky for management to try to engineer them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Defining Diversity and Its Importance in the Workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. At Standard Chartered, for example, the insights of one Indian female banker translated into innovation that boosted net sales at two branches by 127% and 75% within two years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years. In early 2015 the government announced its intention to auction 450 beer licenses to grocery stores, citing Ontarian’s demands as the motivating factor.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Gayathri Vasudevan , a 2015 “ Entrepreneur of the Year ” in India, is a cofounder of LabourNet Services , which provides training for the unskilled. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

She moved to Boston in 2015 to focus on quality innovation. Feeling passionate, innovative, and committed are hallmarks of this mindset, as is having an outward-looking focus on serving the broader organization or key stakeholders. ” Life is short. Purpose mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Strategy in a smart business is not long-term or short-term planning. Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation. “An Strategy Is About Learning, Not A Plan. It’s not planning at all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

In fact, even if we don’t like to describe AI learning in terms of curiosity, it is clear that AI is increasingly a substitute for tasks that once required a great deal of human curiosity. Consider the curiosity that went into automobile safety innovation, for example. Remember automobile crash tests? What if I go here?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

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