Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Is stress impairing your performance at work and compromising your relationships? Turning stress to your advantage is no easy task. It requires mental discipline to pause when you’re in the grip of stress and to reframe it as potentially useful. Develop strategic leadership skills.

Stress 12

Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 12

Ask Atma

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Understand and know how to apply each of the three new criteria for screening (qualifications, personality, and behavioral caliber). Understand how to utilize clique psychology. How to facilitate sessions. Understand how to link teams together. Apply agile and scrum innovations to team development us about teams.

Management 58

Management Business Model Agility Stress 58

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Heart of Innovation : A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. Many attempts at innovation fail because customers turn out to be indifferent.

Books 278

Books Leadership Open-book Innovation 278

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Openness – willingness to explore and to change.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

Failing with less physical and mental damage (raising the possibility of stress free failing). Become more agile: have regular big picture sessions where you evaluate progress or the lack thereof and be ready to pivot, repurpose, reboot. Companies should tackle market problems not technical problems.

Succession 71

Succession Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Diversity 71

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The organization was dedicated to the proposition that it would not just use tools and analytics to get better, it would use them to learn how to get better — and act accordingly.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Executives need to own up to their role in creating the workplace stress that leads to burnout—heavy workloads, job insecurity, and frustrating work routines that include too many meetings and far too little time for creative work. With Agile approaches, teams focus on fewer, more critical activities.

Company 15

Company Agility Energy Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

If you’re getting ready for a discussion you’ve labeled “difficult,” you may be feeling nervous, stressed, angry, or upset about it ahead of time. Ask yourself questions like: What would I do if I were her, or if I were in R&D instead of marketing? Here are a few things you can go do to get ready.

How To 8

How To Construction Agility Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance. The more tension employees feel, the more stressed they are and the worse their performance becomes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Running design sprints. Pricing and revenue modeling.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

They want to see how these approaches … are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation.” Multiple research studies have shown that meditation has the potential to decrease anxiety , thereby potentially boosting resilience and performance under stress. ” You and Your Team.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Will having one person in those three roles make P&G more agile? How should P&G adapt to a shrinking middle class in the US? P&G began a portfolio of lower-priced but high-quality products in emerging markets and brought some of the concepts to the U.S., Of course a company should never neglect its largest developed markets.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We have been told that participative leadership, rather than prescriptive leadership, is what we should aim for; that organizations should be agile, with “change the only constant”; and that empowerment is critical for employee satisfaction and long-term value. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. You and Your Team Series.

Micromanagement 10

Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Another problem lay with the CEO, who had a way of questioning and stress-testing people that discouraged risk-taking. So it appointed leaders to run market segments with profit and loss responsibility, and put pressure on them to change the product mix and improve profitability. They blocked each other's progress.

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. If anyone knows how to succeed in intrapreneurship, it''s George. Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Among the companies that use this practice are Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson, and Whole Foods Market, which have all enjoyed sustained growth after adopting explicit practices of transparency. They also need to learn how to manage the tensions associated with uncertainty, and how to recover from failure to try new ventures again.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Today, in most mature markets, it’s more than 90 percent automated, yet it is still one of the most expensive and space-intensive sections of the factory. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Take the paint shop.

Process 8

Process Automotive Rogers Operations 8