The Odd Truth About Remote Teams
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
For most of my career I have not worked in the [.] She currently serves as an executive at a large telecommunications provider.
The Loneliness Epidemic: Is Your Network Your Net Worth?
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JUNE 26, 2023
Despite its current-day international prowess across multiple business lines, TELUS started in 1904 as a British Columbia–based, publicly run telecommunications company. One of the first events I participated in when I joined TELUS in late 2008 was the annual Retirees Holiday Lunch.
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What to Do When Your Boss Says Something You Regret
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2011
He made his bones in telecommunications and came to GM from the world of private equity investments. He’s had a lot of successes in his career and is fond of speaking his mind. The subject is Dan Akerson, who’s been the CEO of General Motors for 15 months. Akerson is not a “car guy.”
Retain Your Top Performers
Marshall Goldsmith
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.
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Building a Coaching Culture in Your Small Business
Thin Difference
AUGUST 8, 2019
Throughout his career, Dan Foster has successfully helped executives, small business owners, and sales professionals increase their influence, make better decisions, and achieve the results they desire. He also oversees client relationships in the retail, technology, hospitality, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
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Were You Ever Betrayed In the Office? Chances Are It Was a Fox That Did It
The Idolbuster
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Story 1: “Jack,” a Director at a national telecommunications company, laments not recognizing that his colleague as a Fox. “My She accelerated her career that way. In the last post , I used Aesop’s fable The Fox and The Crow to define a Fox at work as someone who gets by on flattery. But she did. I don’t know how she made it work.
Two Words to Help You Gut Check Your Career
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. It engages my mind.
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Practicing Patience and Faith
Persuasive Powerhouse
OCTOBER 18, 2010
I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Honestly – I can’t take credit because my writing isn’t my own. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing. Matt Ulinski: October 21, 2010 at 2:07 pm Mary, it really is the little things.
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The Impact of Great and Terrible Leaders
Leading Blog
JANUARY 15, 2020
Hans Vestberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications, an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate with over 152,000 employees around the world. Bad leaders often only care about the numbers or advancing their own career instead of creating a team mentality and moving the company towards success. Impact of Bad Leaders.
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How to Help Your Team Manage Grunt Work
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
This can be especially tough for early-career professionals to accept, especially those in entry-level positions. Whatever its source, entitlement is a career killer, a noose with which employees of any generation can — and do — hang themselves. To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week.
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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters
Harvard Business Review
JULY 16, 2013
For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. But attaining one is far from easy. We also looked at results by industry and region.
Before You Open a Business…
Leading Blog
APRIL 16, 2021
Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions.
Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Neither Utilities nor Telecommunications are represented in the chart below because all but a few companies in those sectors have no non-domestic revenue. This needs to be replaced with a more strategic approach, including tracking potential director candidates, especially those with global experience, earlier in their careers.
The Rise of the COO
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.
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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 17, 2012
As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.
Morning Advantage: A Serious Attempt at "Pay What You Want"
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Despite their families’ insistence that their idea was a little off-the-wall, Susan Walvius and Michelle Marciniak quit their successful coaching careers to found Sheex, a company that manufactures bedsheets made from the same synthetic poly-spandex fabric used in athletic apparel by brands such as Under Armour.
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8 Using Design Thinking to Embed Learning in Our Jobs
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2016
At the same time, the demand for learning is greater than ever: Bersin by Deloitte’s latest research with Glassdoor shows that learning and career opportunities are the biggest drivers of employees’ willingness to recommend their company as a great place to work for people under age 40.
The Myth of Work-Life Balance
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2011
What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. Many managers are "sprinters" early in their careers. Recognition, rewards, and promotions come their way quickly.
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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2014
An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields. Bell Labs used to do this in the United States for telecommunications, but Fraunhofer now does this on a much larger scale across Germany’s entire industrial sector.
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When Change Hits “Upside the Head”
You're Not the Boss of Me
OCTOBER 20, 2009
While there were lessons to be learned about executing business disaster recovery plans and the positioning of Data Centres and telecommunications systems, Mr. Greenberg’s primary observations were less about that and more about the people, their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on.
The Inevitable Disruption of Television
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2012
Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem. People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications. But destruction will come slowly.
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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. Many companies also need to adopt more progressive policies regarding flextime, career stops, job sharing, and other alternative career paths.
Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors. of Japanese C-suite executives were women.
Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?
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4 Ways to Become a Better Learner
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 31, 2015
The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. He believes this is vital not only for better performance now, but also for the continued success of his career.
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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 19, 2015
A leader with significant experience in negotiating international energy agreements moved from Petronas, the national oil company, to Telekom Malaysia where she acquired skills in operating an integrated telecommunications network. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.
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8 Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Entrepreneurs building businesses in telecommunications could predict the next wave of disruption for the FCC. We need to find a way to get our best and brightest to consider entrepreneurship as a viable career option. It needs to be de-risked to the point that everyone can see it as a step along a path — not a leap of faith.
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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.
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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2018
But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. While there is no well-defined career path for data scientists, and little support for junior data scientists, we are starting to see some forms of specialization.
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The Rise of the Not-So-Experienced CEO
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 26, 2014
The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.
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Artisans Must Balance the Books
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.
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14 What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Here a few notable examples.
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12 Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?
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15 The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
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15 The Buzz on Green Business in China
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy.
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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.
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14 Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
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14 The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries.
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15 Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2012
One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. She was bracingly blunt. In California companies, "people over 40 are out to pasture."
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14 When You’re the Person Your Colleagues Always Vent To
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Divani (not her real name) is a senior analyst at a large telecommunications firm. She proudly describes herself as her department’s “resident cheer-upper.” ” As she says, “I have always been the person that people turn to for support…I listen really well and I like to listen, I like to help.”
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8 Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 7, 2016
The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Industries with a moderate representation of women leaders include: food, banking and telecommunications services.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization. And the impact isn’t limited to customer satisfaction. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation.
So You Want to Join a Board
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 4, 2014
One of us (Fred) was invited to join one important board seat (Time Warner) in large part because his expertise in the highly regulated realm of health care could be applied to the increasingly regulated world of global telecommunications. So look for moments in your career where your judgment of others has made a winning difference.
Google Changes the Playing Field on News
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
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