Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Weisbord encourages cultures that take a case-by-case approach, honouring Mary Parker Follett’s “law of the situation,” which not surprisingly focuses on what’s happening here and now. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And he’d seen and heard about similar cases of misuse elsewhere. But not here , he thought. “Higher! .” Was Andrew right to suggest a hybrid model?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Three new accounts, including NMM Technology — impressive. Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. No one on the leadership team wanted the man responsible for that to go anywhere. equal as partners.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press. Not to those who’ve been through a few startups, or studied the challenges that founders face. Entrepreneurship Leadership transitions Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The result is underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, all of which could be — but aren’t, Stiglitz says — engines of future American prosperity. A Leadership Look (Washington Post). That’s one among several Bain recommendations for fighting the fickle nature of consumers. Bill Clinton's Gaffes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. Don’t keep your knowledge under wraps. You’re being strategic. Slouch as you talk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Engineer organizational breakdowns.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Global leadership is much more complicated than leading people like you," says Mansour Javidan, the Director of the Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of " Making It Overseas." You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. What the Experts Say.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. In Coty’s case it was the site leadership teams from all the plants and offices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

For decades, NASA has been committed to training employees in project management through its Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL), an in-house organization that advocates for project management discipline in all missions. An HBR Mini Case Study. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

For decades, NASA has been committed to training employees in project management through its Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL), an in-house organization that advocates for project management discipline in all missions. An HBR Mini Case Study. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Get Ready to Fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Be frank that the person lacks certain leadership qualities, for example. Case Study #1: Use “radical candor” and look for ways to challenge your employee. He now occupies a hybrid leadership role that involves helping AdRoll commercialize its products. ’” Remember, however, that people can change.

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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

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. HCL Technologies has a prestigious leadership development program which executives have to apply for by putting together, among other things, a failure CV listing their biggest mistakes and what they learned from them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is frequently the case in industrial production. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation. The case study doesn''t hide the fact that Kagame has many critics, but it doesn''t dwell on political issues.

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