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. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here are the highlights from the class of 2015: The novelist Salman Rushdie on productivity: “I’ve always told myself to treat it like a 9-to-5 job…It doesn’t matter whether you’re feeling good that day. But typically, the more you can remove emotion, the more efficient you’ll be.

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Wilde Succession Leadership Delegation 8

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

” Granted APS is an extreme example of measurement gone wild, but think about how measurements are impacted by other decisions made in education—from ones at the classroom level to the school system level and even at a national or international level.

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System Education Comparison Influence 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. Private vs. Public.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The survey reveals 81% of top performing companies (compared to 74% of average companies) used some form of pay-for-performance practices in 2015. And finally, most executives and managers lack the tools and framework to apply compensation practices that truly motivate and — ultimately — drive better business performance.

Metrics 8

Metrics Price Policies Software 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Big corporations seem to have it especially hard: according to an Accenture survey , only 15% of college students who graduated in 2015 said they would prefer to work for a large company. And yet in the Accenture survey mentioned above, what the class of 2015 most wants in a job is interesting, challenging work.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Meerkat, which was the darling of SXSW 2015, allows people to experience anything virtually through live video streaming on their smartphones. Here are some tips brand and marketing managers can use to leverage converged media to their advantage: 1. More apps of this nature are surfacing every day.

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Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” They shared out the findings from this in an immersive, internal cross-functional Action Setting workshop, where they mapped out changes in advance of the 2015 Open Enrollment period.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2015, the FCC succeeded. However, there is evidence to suggest that network investment has in fact increased by more than 5% since the agency put its most recent policies in place in 2015. As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S.

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Policies Content Long-term Operations 8