Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones. Your agenda has to consider the desired set of results, make them explicit and reverse engineer back from that end state picture to figure out the best uses of time during the offsite.

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Blog Leadership Executive Coaching Letter 179

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

” This was especially helpful for technical employees, like the engineers who work on system architecture and didn’t work with Upworthy’s message and audience. For example, employees might technically be able to take unlimited vacation, but managers might view those who take too many days off as slackers.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. John Browne : Business exists to serve society; it is the engine of human progress that feeds, enriches, warms and delights us. It means that companies that break their bond of trust with society stand to lose out significantly.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

At Boeing, Alan Mulally was hired right out of college as an engineer and went on to become its CEO before becoming the chief executive at Ford. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

In white male–dominated professions like law, engineering, or medicine, black men are in the majority because of their gender, but in the minority due to their race. In one , I conducted intensive interviews with 42 black men working in high-status occupations — doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers.

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Bond Engineering Mentor Health Care 11

Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

At $60 trillion in 2019, real estate was the single highest-value asset in the United States, greater than the value of stocks, bonds, or any other major asset category. Prior to his 2020 appointment, he was managing partner of Gabriel Investments and chair of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropic organization.

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Real Estate Transportation Absenteeism Banking 333

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

That moment, thirty years ago when we watched President Reagan close his news conference that evening with the words, “… and we waved goodbye… as they slipped the surly bonds of earth, to touch the face of god…”. The day before the launch, and on the morning of the launch, he pleaded with NASA and his managers to delay… To no avail.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is a lot of taxonomy and local knowledge that needs to be incorporated into the AI system —similar to the old “knowledge engineering” activity for expert systems. There are several domains and business problems for which the requisite knowledge engineering is available. Integration Time.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

That moment, thirty years ago when we watched President Reagan close his news conference that evening with the words, “… and we waved goodbye… as they slipped the surly bonds of earth, to touch the face of god…”. The day before the launch, and on the morning of the launch, he pleaded with NASA and his managers to delay… To no avail.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage. Emotional communities will emerge in organizations, whether management likes it or not, and will have a life of their own. Communities of aspiration look toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

While this used to be the case primarily for country managers and those taking on overseas assignments, it now applies to all managers. Smart managers at smart companies are usually somewhat prepared for cross-cultural collaboration. Managers of global teams often end up building a hybrid culture. What the Experts Say.

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Globalization Engineering Due Diligence Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Leadership development Managing people Morale'

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Leadership development Managing people Morale'

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

If we all invest in stocks, managers tend to get rewarded (whether or not they've performed). As the never-ending global economic crisis has intensified, we've had plenty of what economists call "capital flight" to "safer" financial assets, whether gold, bonds, or blue chip stocks. And cynicism's the surest path to mediocrity.

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Crisis Bond Depreciation Hedge 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

For as long as anyone can remember, the top management team has been seen as this critical group, and the way to achieve the "mind meld" has been through executive off-sites. Today, however, CEOs need to connect not only with their most senior managers, but with broader groups of their companies' most influential and productive people.

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Company CEO Politics Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

For as long as anyone can remember, the top management team has been seen as this critical group, and the way to achieve the "mind meld" has been through executive off-sites. Today, however, CEOs need to connect not only with their most senior managers, but with broader groups of their companies' most influential and productive people.

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Company CEO Politics Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It One well-known product company, for instance, bypassed its distributors and embedded some of its engineers in paint shops because customers had reported having trouble keeping the walls clean. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

As more is communicated, more emotions shared, more passions pursued in this much more vivid medium, we're likely to see stronger bonds between brands, consumers, networks and causes. More natural, richer forms of communication will demand more of what the smarter brand managers are already doing: letting go.

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Brand Video Technology Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

To do this, she must address a couple of issues: 1) Engineers may "delight in advertising they''re wearing the new device," but most other people don''t want to look like a weirdo resembling "the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager"; and 2) People don''t generally want to be reminded that they''re constantly plugged in.

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As the cast of characters in an organization or program grows, coordinating all those people and sustaining healthy social bonds among becomes more difficult. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Build organizations where people feel “I own the place, and the place owns me.”

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? Can a product placement in a movie undermine brand credibility — eg, would James Bond really drink Heineken? It was a debate worth at least 40 miles.

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Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0 Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0 Challenge, the first round of the HBR/McKinsey Management prize.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. “The managing directors in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and Brazil and Argentina and the others. ” Conrad asked.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

When the domain of team work is technical, then the languages of science and engineering often provide a solid foundation for effective communication. The image of co-workers gathering around a water cooler is a metaphor for informal interactions that share information and reinforce social bonds. Create a "virtual water cooler."

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Team Shaw Commitment After Action Review 9

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. Make the CMO the “bonding agent” that connects the organization. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities. Corporations might even get involved.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Once he arrived at Google, Ng quickly bonded with two other researchers, Greg Corrado and Jeff Dean , who were also interested in a new brand of artificial intelligence called deep learning. Product managers focus on customers needs. Engineers working on 20% time projects follow their passions. Innovating from the bottom up.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. [A He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

Loneliness should be as important to managers, CFOs, and CEOs as it is to therapists. In a breakdown of loneliness and social support rates by profession, legal practice was the loneliest kind of work, followed by engineering and science. How managers and colleagues can help. Where you work matters.

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Report Health Care Sample Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money. When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code.

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Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Prototype ideas and formats instead of reverse-engineering them. Trust, in turn, creates the bond that leads to a loyal audience. The manager of what is possibly the world’s most successful creative enterprise not only doesn’t expect to start with a great idea, he doesn’t even expect to start out with a good idea.

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Content Marketing Audience Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. sources continues to steadily decline.

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