Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. No one is equally expert at both.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline. In many cases they have deliberately chosen not to pursue a managerial career. Perhaps they prefer technical work. We submit that every organization has such people.

Development 9

Development Report Leadership Development Budgeting 9

QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

May 2009: 25 Lessons Learnt on Conducting Productive Meetings We know that meetings can be a huge waste if not conducted well. This post touches upon 25 most important tips for conducting productive meetings. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization.

Blog 84

Blog Constraint Quality Directory 84

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We say the big bang disruption is this better and cheaper product or service that enters, and then because it’s better and cheaper, rational consumers who can spread information now much more easily among themselves through social media and so on, they’re going to tell each other, hey, don’t buy a standalone GPS navigation device.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 12, 2010

For instance, Southwest airlines’ over-arching purpose is stated as: “To provide the best service and lowest fares to the short haul, frequent-flying, point-to-point, non-interlining traveler.&# This simple statement lets everyone know why Southwest Airlines is in business and whom it is there, ultimately, to serve.

Environment 42

Environment Servant Leader Leadership Airlines 42

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It might be to optimize the tax implications of new development.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Software Construction Technology 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Some of us have been documenting the business case for this type of high road or high productivity, high-wage business strategy for years. Kaiser Permanente, Costco, Southwest Airlines, and Siemens are household names that have achieved consistently good results and good jobs with this strategy.

Long-term 8

Long-term Airlines Health Care Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples. Economists and market design. Economists and finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Chris Brady

JANUARY 5, 2011

Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. Posted by: Geneva | January 05, 2011 at 12:51 PM Snuggie's new product line - The Lappie! A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price! mean VICTORY.

Travel 82

Travel Blog Letter Shaw 82

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. April Bertram, a business development director who works on a startup inside of GOJO, the Ohio-based maker of Purell, talks about letting business unit leaders design “guard rails.”

Project 11

Project Innovation Press Release Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. The chance of getting killed in a crash on a given flight on a major airline is roughly 1 in 10 million.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership. We all want to be insiders.

Brand 121

Brand Storytelling Trends Content 121

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Co-creation involves working on new product and service ideas together with the customers who are going (you hope) to buy them. But very often it goes against the grain of how they built their careers in the first place. When you need to transform a brand or product, you can't just do the same things better," Brown said.

Workshop 15

Workshop Creativity Merchandising Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Our advice therefore can’t boil down to a clear “avoid careers in a, b, and c” or “apply for jobs x, y, or z.” The WSJ for example reported as recently as 2014 that the future was “very bright for anyone entering into compliance as a career.”).

Compliance 10

Compliance Drucker Banking Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Doing so for people who are locked out of a market is what made companies like eBay, Google, and Southwest Airlines the powerhouses they are today.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We worked with philosophers at The School of Life to develop a set of questions capable of helping people to uncover deeper truths about their organizations, their brands and their own professional motivations: questions like, “Which of your brand’s flaws have you learned to ignore?” A Successful Career is a Marathon.

Wilde 67

Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. As it develops, the U.S. How’d that work out?)

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” As the RCA explained, “We don’t want too many “career academics,” who only work with us.

Organization 12

Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It's essential for your new responsibilities in developing market strategies for your region.". I was thinking through my kiosk-services development project. Within weeks he had secured a contract with a major airline to accelerate kiosk rollout in 20 airports and buy software upgrades across their locations. Tom interrupted.

Case Study 15

Case Study Airlines Hotels Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. Rather, behind every decision the average person makes to buy something — whether a product or service, your argument or an idea — is an unspoken emotional motivation.

Belief Systems 16

Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

” But cultures in the companies we followed were forged out of “ organic solidarity ”—which, Durkheim argued, rests on the productive exploitation of differences. Developing leaders in the British Army. What does the story of a British army recruit’s career have to do with creating an authentic workplace?

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Diversity Creativity Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Running the business.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade. Following a silent coup, the coronation is complete: the customer is king.

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11