Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2017

The networking goal is more likely to be about developing deep and long-term strategic relationships than for completing short-term tasks. Developing these networks—and the influence that they afford—is critical to success. I’ve seen these differences play out in the way that people use social media to build networks.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. With the emergence of social media, the leverage of creativity is immeasurable. Develop strategies that define the future based on the actions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. These individuals represent a largely untapped opportunity within established businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

How about a social media specialist? To better understand the tension between control and freedom in new roles, we analyzed more than 4000 pages of interview data, company documents, and media reports from 21 organizations that recently established a “sustainability manager” position and appointed someone to the role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

In my own research on crisis communication I have found that the leader’s voice is one of the most critical components in developing a strategy for communicating during a crisis. Besides hearing from the leader, however, the media wants to tell a good story with victims, villains, and visuals. Despite Ms. Finally, while I admire Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So you think, “Wow, there were huge numbers of Iraqi men in 2007, 2008, 2009 that had to develop military skills, whether they had to develop them to fight for a particular side or for self-defense. They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So you think, “Wow, there were huge numbers of Iraqi men in 2007, 2008, 2009 that had to develop military skills, whether they had to develop them to fight for a particular side or for self-defense. They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was reelected as president of Liberia, she faced unemployment, health crises, social unrest, and feeble infrastructure on one side, and a historically corrupt bureaucracy, few resources, and a mandate for immediate results on the other. It’s essential to decide what to do and what not to do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

The integrated management is based on software developed by our own IT department. It´s the barrier of subverting the culture of thinking "within the box", very common in public bureaucracy. In many developing countries like Brazil, there is no tradition of getting ready for the worst case scenario. This was unacceptable.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 13, 2010

I don’t mean to pick on quality circles per se, but these things have a way of taking on lives of their own and before you know it, your goals are going one way and the people who are meant to achieve them are bound up in processes that get lost in bureaucracy, and administration. Management processes will help you get things done.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Do they tell stories about overcoming obstacles or being crushed by the bureaucracy? Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. The first is a practice. Listen to the stories people tell. Do they tell hero stories or stories about dumb bosses?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the most disrupted organizations were B2C, with media being the most disrupted and telecoms and consumer financial services close behind. Tasked explicitly with driving growth, these roles combine strategy, corporate development, investment, and operations, as companies seek to find meaningful new revenues streams.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Great data scientists, on the other hand, develop new insights about the larger world. They certainly use data to develop those insights, but that is not the point. For example, great data scientists are interested in many things and develop networks of people with different perspectives than their own.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. I remember talking to someone who was a core member of the team that developed a $500 million breakthrough innovation. The question is: who will get it done? Special Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. Or is mobile app development considered peripheral and non-essential? (If If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. The media circus jumped on all facets of the conflicts, as well as lawsuits filed. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ Running the business.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. In Humanocracy , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Hierarchies have long been under attack because of their supposed inability to adjust quickly to new developments in markets and consumer interests, because of their supposed high cost, and because silos slow the flow of ideas and information.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

lawmakers are now circling waters bloodied by revelations regarding potential abuse of Facebook’s social media data, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this week about the “use and protection of user data.” companies doing business abroad. In the U.S., and EU governments themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. This book promises to become your "quantitative literacy" guide — helping you develop the analytical skills you need right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value. by Ty Montague.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Boards incentivize CEOs to increase short-term profits by any means necessary, even if it means defunding research and development labs and personnel whose value creation may be a few years off. On the surface, it’s the creative destruction of centralized taxi commissions and bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

and Europe provide the local affiliates with access to cutting-edge financial and evaluation systems, links to high-level corporate partners and media outlets, credibility in appealing to major international employers and donors, and expertise in areas such as budgeting and marketing. At EFE, support hubs in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Three prior CIA directors, and countless senior officials, operations officers, analysts, technical experts, and support teams carried out this campaign, developing important pieces of intelligence along the way. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. The trail had gone cold.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But even if an AI system gives an employee super-powered intelligence, it won’t be enough to make a timely decision if the company’s internal bureaucracy requires time-consuming pre-authorization from senior managers before acting on the decision. But in many companies, AI use is still highly centralized.

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