Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

How do you want to be recognized and what do you want to be remembered for? Crafting a few sentences that distill your career essence and aspirations into something memorable will help you go a long way towards cutting through the noise in the world as well as help you home in on what you are best at.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 26, 2011

I think sticking to these points will help you encourage your inner leader and learn how to actually lead your staff. As a leader you should always be willing to do what you have asked and I make sure that if I want something done I learn how to do it as well, which brings me to my second point. Lead by Example. Learn from Your Staff.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. One innovative firm in the Bay Area, Flexperience, has created a different talent market: experienced professionals who seek flexible work opportunities.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There are practical parts of the job that training, no matter how good, will never be able to teach. The goal here is to get rid of the ‘push button’ mentality where the employee only knows how to push a specific button.We want to get them to the point of expertise where they know exactly what to. Create a one to one atmosphere.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

“You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

To foster collaboration among employees, we’re focusing on celebrating our differences so we can unlock fresh perspectives, new ideas, and innovations to help us succeed. To foster collaboration, clear direction is needed on how to integrate subcultures effectively.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it. That, she suggested, was pretty much the most compelling business case for diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Instead, you should go in with “an attitude of innovation” — how can everyone take something satisfying away? If your research doesn’t turn up a definitive answer, or you’re not happy with it, you can schedule a time to meet with your rival and discuss how to disentangle the roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Data scientists, risk managers, and business development leads are among the types of employees that can bring significant value to the supply chain. Recruitment, performance metrics, and career advancement all need to be viewed through a lens of technology-driven innovation. Place your innovation bets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Government must adopt innovation practices that mirror those used by leading entrepreneurial companies around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Here, I will show how to identify and win over a suitable champion—the crucial sponsor who can help you navigate the labyrinth of opinion, prestige, and politics between you and the approval of your project. At the time, Charlie was an internet security specialist at IBM, and I was running business development at a company called Zone Labs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

How much and how often is time devoted in your company to revisiting its core organizing principles and discussing how to build capability for tomorrow’s customer, versus focusing on today’s business? The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

to solve the complex problems we face today, and have been more in the way of innovation than at the source of it. Org Democracy faces a unique challenge, though, in addition to all the other issues associated with large scale org change. American politics) are (again, imho) far from perfect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." Here's how to make the most of an imperfect job situation. Look at yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Deep down, it's uncomfortable," says Dick Grote, author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. Oftentimes managers are evaluating performance without necessarily knowing what that person's career aspirations are. It was a business I wasn't familiar with. For managers, the discussion is just as tense. Lay the groundwork.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Often, it withers and dies an early death. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

No doubt, your business model isn’t built around a rock, but no matter what you are selling, or who is doing the selling, the most innovative marketers are armed with a well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy supported by the requisite funds, pricing flexibility and distribution channels to bring a product to market. And launch.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. I am very careful in the small things that I run to ensure culture over and over again, and very methodically decide how to build it. link] mikemyatt Hi Scott: Thanks for the comment.

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