Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2015

When we seek funding or respond to an RFP, our proposals meet the criteria requested, presenting well-positioned information to persuade the decision makers to choose us. I began thinking about this when a friend told me she was writing a grant proposal. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. Even with a proposed 19% pay boost the top 21 executives at Toyota would get a combined US$14.9 million in the proposal for this year. Toyota proposed 1.52 billion yen ($14.9

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 15, 2019

The study proposes a fresh way to think about the kind of diversity we have in our teams and our workforce, whilst attempting to reconcile this basic dichotomy between having a homogeneous yet productive team, or a diverse and innovative one. Cultural diversity. These were then used to train an algorithm to identify clear patterns in words.

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Diversity Productivity Products Innovation 50

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. Those with knowledge of how human systems work can predict the likely consequences of creating poor management systems. Those that learn from W.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

To get folks to change their minds or accept a solution and avoid resistance, it’s necessary to first: help the system discover the differences between the new and the old, help the system discover the details of the risk, facilitate an acceptable route to managing the risk, facilitate buy-in from the right people/elements.

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Resistance Consensus Tactics Leadership 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We need to find prospects, get them bought-in to the possibility of using our solution, get them what they need to understand our solution and how it might fit, get past gatekeepers, manage objections, get to the right people who will know how to buy us, and wait. Every buying decision is a change management problem.

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Objective System Learning-by-Doing Proposal 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

When it comes to taking a risk with customers — whether they are website users, shareholders, movie patrons, or voters — you have to think about the question they’ll ask themselves as a result of the change you are proposing. It’s probably not the question you wish they’d ask.

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Proposal Sports Learning-by-Doing Definition 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Attempting to change behaviors without helping people change their beliefs first meets with resistance: the proposed change pushes against the status quo regardless of the efficacy of the change. Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation. About the Author.

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Charisma Leadership Resistance Welch 50

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. They managed by “walking around.” These leaders led from positional authority.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

Attempting to change behaviors without helping people change their beliefs first meets with resistance: the proposed change pushes against the status quo regardless of the efficacy of the change. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Real change happens at the belief level. Consider leaving a comment!

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Charisma Leadership Resistance Follow-up 50

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2024

The study, conducted by Zurich University, marks the first attempt to quantify and substantiate a theory previously proposed by American anthropologist David Graeber in 2018. The author further analyzed the data by accounting for factors like job routine, autonomy, and management quality, aiming to compare workers with similar circumstances.

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Finance Survey Proposal Objective 88

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal. It had been on my mind since September 2015, and I couldn’t wait to get started at the beginning of 2016. Nothing about writing the proposal felt like a “should.”

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Goal Proposal Learning-by-Doing Books 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

” How often have you said this to a person you’re managing or mentoring, only to get a blank stare in return? Before offering solutions, we’d like to propose a radical diagnosis: The problem lives not in a lack of career opportunities, but rather in the very concept of a career. “Tell me about your career goals.”

Career 14

Career Mentor Goal How To 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

This line of thinking represents a significant shift, from viewing work-life issues as private concerns to recognizing that managers play a critical role. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. The boss’s influence. Seemed convinced of family-friendly HR practices’ value to employees.

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Middle Management Influence Report Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously. In 2015 , the U.S.

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Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Our research on social change philanthropic investments of $25 million and up found that in 2015 there were 58 such bets; 17 years ago there were just 19. In 2015 the David and Lucile Packard Foundation invested $31.4 Foundations and wealthy individuals are making big philanthropic bets on driving social change solutions at scale.

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Policies Bottom-up System Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Conversely, it’s worth shelving your planned priorities when a plum, unplanned opportunity presents itself, such as when a major publisher reached out to my friend Brian recently, asking him to develop a book proposal. Instead of creating annual New Year’s Resolutions, I set six-month goals.

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Goal Proposal Planning Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. There will be time to debate whether the EPA’s proposed targets are sufficiently ambitious. Government Risk management Sustainability'

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. Our case studies also make clear why so many companies that have succeeded in diversifying their ranks fail to capitalize on that diversity: management too often elicits and endorses the ideas of people like themselves.

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Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Further complicating matters, decision makers may balk if they think you’re being overly emotional, or they may feel defensive if you’re proposing a change to something they’ve done. Managing your own emotions: Conveying passion can improve your chances of gaining attention and triggering action. Managing Up.

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Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. While breadth is a virtue for a public policy audience, managers need ways to prioritize and focus resources. Segment the SDGs.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The researchers identified relevant economic activity for the years 2015 and 2019, and used the BEA’s comprehensive supply-use tables, which contain economic inputs and outputs for over 5,300 product categories, to build their estimates. billion in 2015 and $724.5 billion in 2015 and $724.5

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Budgeting Guidelines Proposal Report 99

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The action thus far involves national for-profit firms, like the proposed acquisitions of Cigna by Anthem and Humana by Aetna. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

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Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

While many managers and employees would probably say the power dynamics of a prison and a workplace are completely different, I have seen enough of both worlds to disagree. In one study of managers, the ability to identify harassment did not improve among those who received training. Power is power, wherever you are.

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Policies Ethics Training Library 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

” A second notion, proposed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, is of machine intelligence based on heuristics. Turing simply proposed that machines could acquire all the rules necessary to imitate us so proficiently that they’d become indistinguishable.

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Simon Proposal Learning-by-Doing System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

trillion in 2015, a 6.5% Of course, life doesn’t stop when you’re in the air: emails still pour in, and reports and proposals are still expected. There are countless podcasts available on relevant professional topics, from legal issues to project management to entrepreneurship to marketing. increase over last year.

Travel 8

Travel Productivity Products How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. Debate-producing proposals on curbing gun violence have come from many corners, including the White House. presidential election.

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

The Holmes Report published in 2015 found that while women make up 70% of those employed in the U.S. Today, many requests for proposals (RFPs) require organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness of their diversity and inclusion initiatives. African American, 2.6% Asian American, and 5.7% Hispanic American.

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PR Diversity Public Relations CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. One blind patient said, “The nurse case manager went with me and stayed through it all.

Health Care 9

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Dhir , an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has done extensive research for his forthcoming 2015 book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity. More effective risk mitigation and crisis management, and a better balance between risk-welcoming and risk aversion behavior.

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Osgood ROE Diversity Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

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Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8