Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We know the Resistance Loop. I argue that it works way better than the resistance loop and the results are greater for everyone. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”.

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Resistance. Pattern of Cooperation.

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Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Resist making verbal commitments : Most misunderstandings occur as a result of improper interpretation of oral communications.

Leadership 411

Leadership Commitment Competitive Advantage Resistance 411

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

During this step, it’s crucial to engage with key stakeholders, including senior management, departmental leaders, and HR professionals, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s vision, mission, and the specific challenges it aims to address through employee training and development.

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 64

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As societies across the western world age, it’s increasingly important that we manage to age in a healthy way. It reminds us that resistance training can benefit people regardless of both their age and previous levels of fitness.

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Budgeting Long-term Participative Training 50

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has happened to all of us, someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about “What an a **e they are and they always do this. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other.

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 124

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Hire the Best.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 104

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Open innovation processes promise to enhance creative output, yet we have heard little about successful launches of new technologies, products, or services arising from these approaches. But most R&D organizations are still struggling to reap the very real rewards of open innovation. Don Farrall/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Innovation Engineering Resistance Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Open innovation processes promise to enhance creative output, yet we have heard little about successful launches of new technologies, products, or services arising from these approaches. But most R&D organizations are still struggling to reap the very real rewards of open innovation. Don Farrall/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Innovation Engineering How To Resistance 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

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Finance Technology BPM Company 107

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. But getting the most innovative materials to the most innovative customers fast remains a challenge.

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Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. Mismanaged expectations, blown budgets, slipped schedules, and mutual contempt run rampant. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Patients generally need proof of insurance to access outpatient clinics, and Parkland was serving a large volume of uninsured people as inpatients — so it extended preventive care and management of chronic conditions into the outpatient arena, much like an ACO. Ability to resist reimbursement pressures. Uncertain planning.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

” Call it cost management fatigue. The best-run companies, in contrast, think of cost management as a way to support their strategy, and of cost as precious investment that will fuel their growth. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” We only included companies that had implemented a major analytics initiative with an innovation or similar agenda.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. As the world now knows, U.S.

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Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the large organizations in which we work are often inflexible and incapable of adaptation and true innovation. Most try to decrease randomness, with executives conducting feasibility studies and risk analyses or tightening budgets, introducing more processes, standardizing operations. Now consider your average human.

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Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite, all the rhetoric about holacracy and “ flatarchies ”, the average respondent works in an organization that has more than 6 management layers. In large organizations (more than 5,000 employees) front line employees are buried under 8 or more layers of management. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation.

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Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Moreover, in many countries the prestige, pay, and job security of big companies are difficult to resist. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Resisting revenue temptations. Companies, and certainly new entrants looking for growth, often find it difficult to resist jumping onto various new sources of revenue. Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Regardless of whether a provider is developing predictive analytics in-house, as many large academic medical centers have done, or purchasing tools off the shelf, managers should make sure they are involving the right people throughout the entire process. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The product manager, who had come up with what he thought was an airtight, iron-clad, compelling and irrefutable business case for launching a fairly clever innovation, completely failed to persuade the impassive CMO. The pitch can be before venture capitalists, brand managers, product review committees and/or the CEO.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Innovation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? For the traditional producers of culture — the creators of movies, design, advertising, publishing, magazines, newspapers, and corporate R&D — this book will inspire new innovation and creativity. Where do you stand? by Leslie A. Does it have to be this way?

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. Middle managers are worrying if they are still needed. You might know all of that, but are you fully embracing it?

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

All the content was "good," the timelines "reasonable," the budgets "sufficient.". I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. The product managers looked at each other, then at their VP, and then, finally, to the CEO.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

The pattern continues today with start-ups that are in the early phases of this journey: Expensify is in the process of disrupting administrative assistants and office managers with an app-based expense reporting product. Entrepreneurial management Disruptive innovation'

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B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In fact, a 2012 report from the Congressional Budget Office identified bundled payments as the only Medicare payment demonstration project to date that had showed clear savings. Such limitations have more profoundly affected efforts to pay for the proactive management of patients with chronic illness. health care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Middle managers had to go back and forth between firing people and finding new ones with different skills, and few people believed that the yearly planning and budgeting cycle was anything more than a painful exercise, since it was always changing midway through. This case isn’t the exception.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. recommends blocking out time to work away from email, programming your phone to only ring for select colleagues, and resisting emails first thing in the morning until you’ve achieved at least one important task.

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Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 10

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8