HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you. You, however, might prefer getting hands-on experience with a landmark project that you’d love to work on. Assess what leadership means to you and look at career goal examples that fit you best.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

While it is important to encourage local ownership of ideas and projects, turning them into game-changers requires clear, sometimes ruthless direction from the center around which projects to scale and in what order. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models.

CEO 12

CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling.

Blog 410

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 410

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

You not only had to be able to come up with great winning ideas, you also had to deal with the complexities of financing, engineering, distribution, recruiting staff, and legal liability — to name just a few. He started this project with help from his dad. Thus, it''s been a hard gig to crack. Back to Houston Diaz''s toothbrush.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Disaggregation Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. Then he meets with the leadership team. They were flat.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business. As projects advance and coalesce, new teams form to gather the skills and priorities needed.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. An example of system leadership can be found in the food industry, where an initiative that began with 17 food and agribusiness companies grew into a global network of 500 organizations taking action in 19 countries. Enable mutual accountability for progress.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Although Contect had launched as a specialist in small but steady installation jobs with high margins and low risk, it was now a full-service construction company that did design, construction, lighting, ventilation, water, waste processing, and IT infrastructure for much bigger, more complex projects. Our projects aren’t isolated.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

It’s the greatest use of domestic water and we have a big business in emerging markets where people have to work hard to fetch water or pay a lot for it. When Paul arrived at Unilever he immediately started creating a new vision and business model with both growth and sustainability at its core. The New Marketing Organization.

Marketing 11

Marketing Brand Mission Statement Marketing Strategy 11

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

Blog 307

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 307