Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Because they often have to collaborate across units or functions to achieve their objectives, they become more skilled at leading without formal authority. When faced with an objective six or 12 months out, most people will delay working on it until it becomes more urgent. Do it fast. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. As its name implies, the objective of the future-state portfolio is to paint a picture of the organization 10 or 20 years into the future.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Only local zoning rules could inhibit future real estate magnates from building in the objectively safer parts of the city and protecting the populace by building more units higher up. What will this adaptation look like?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Earning your boss’s respect is part and parcel of earning the esteem of your colleagues. “The objective was to discuss what areas we each owned to eliminate confusion on budget or deliverables,” she says. Your goal is not to play politics, but “it’s important to understand the politics.”

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