Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Case studies we did for our report give weight to these findings. Today, Standard Chartered is the go-to bank for women in South Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

An organization showing ethical leadership can galvanize ethically sensitive stakeholders into supporting it in its endeavor to fight corruption, which can lead to reputational benefits for the organization. We developed research case studies on two companies and teaching case studies on four companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. But do make sure you’ve constructed a narrative that explains why you originally resigned. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Case study #1: Get the right feedback to grow. Michelle Morgan, who works in online marketing in Missouri, couldn’t complain about the amount of feedback she was getting from her boss; he piled on the praise about her performance regularly. .” ” Case study #2: Keep your questions narrow. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

“These are people who will often do anything to get what they need, including lie,” says Annie McKee, founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and coauthor of Primal Leadership. In these cases, you have to take special precautions that help you and, hopefully, your counterpart both get your jobs done.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Reporting to an indecisive boss is an unquestionably “challenging and frustrating situation,” says Sydney Finkelstein, the Director of the Leadership Center at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of the book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent. What the Experts Say.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Rather, they were abandoning their businesses because of bad bookkeeping.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

In these cases, it’s your job to help him “transfer knowledge in a structured way,” she says. The objective for the less-experienced staff member is to learn how his senior colleague gets things done; the goal for the expert is to “mentor, which is part of leadership development,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched. We all have.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” “Be constructive,” he says. Here are some pointers on how to do that. Manage your stress.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Take over responsibility and leadership. Take over responsibility and leadership. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. To all HR people: be proud about the responsibility you have — or should have.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

and the open market­ (Does a person doing this job in another company get similar pay?). “In a leadership position, you’re always going to have to deal with people’s disappointment.” ” Case Study #2: Make the case for retention. ” Try to demystify the process for them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. His forthcoming book, Shine , is due out in January from Harvard Business Review Press. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. And perhaps failing to recognize that is whats really at the root of this great crisis. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. As for more serious stuff, youll have to wait until March for Ran Spieglers upcoming book, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization. Joshua Gans is an economics professor at Melbourne Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. To make sure we all stay on-topic, all posts will be reviewed by our editors and may be edited for clarity, length, and relevance. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new?

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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. Cultivate a shared vision for change.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. However increasing your personal brand equity is good for adding value to your company’s brand, leveraging your earning power, and improving your job security and/or marketability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Department of Economics, and the author of the book Parentonomics. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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