Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

T HE STORY of American business is the story of real estate — a story of more than 200 years of claiming, seizing, developing, settling, and speculating in vast areas of land. Owning and improving land necessitated getting to that land, and so a booming real estate enterprise led to America’s transportation industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. At a TechCrunch conference in 2011, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joked, apparently proudly , that “I think I’ve got 20,000 years of jail time in front of me.” Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. They must embrace a new leadership model. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Embedded in the signal are engineering plans for a huge, complex device to transport a human from Earth to Vega via a wormhole system. And if wormholes proved to be real, they wouldnt work for transportation. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc.,

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Leadership and Change It was a planned change. This does not have to be a time or money consuming activity.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 19, 2010

It means giving people everything they need to do their best work - things like tools, equipment, supplies, technology, transportation, facilities, communication, personnel, information, and time. Develop them to improve their ability to deliver. True empowerment involves a lot more than giving away authority. Post by Dennis E.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm. Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. These leaders understand you need a systematic approach to talent development.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. As organizations expand and grow, the skills that led to success often won’t sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. Will the CEO allow you to work in these arenas for a short time? Leadership Inspirations – Prepare, Prepare, Prepare.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Transportation. People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. And in my new online self-development service, ProStar Coach. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc.,

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 13, 2010

← Fast Friday: words of wisdom from Hugo Sorensen Fast Friday: Words of Wisdom from Renato Discenza CEO of Invest Toronto → Jerks, narcissists and psychopaths… oh my. Posted on April 13, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 1 Comment Ah, to have the ability to click your heels together and transport yourself away from a bad boss!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. On a far larger scale and more caustically, former JCPenney and Macy's CEO Allen Questrom ripped into current JCPenney CEO (and Apple Store innovator) Ron Johnson's turnaround strategy for the struggling retailer. It's easy to tell them apart.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Or consider transportation. Young and old, rich and poor, have ready access to those transportation services. Consider senior care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones. The lesson is clear.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick. But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. It was Lyft that first invited drivers to provide transportation through their personal vehicles. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” Collaboration is not a style. Work on your network.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Despite operating within different industry contexts (energy, manufacturing, banking, insurance, and media), we found a common pattern of response over time: initial statements of climate leadership degenerated into the more mundane concerns of conventional business activity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Pittsburgh — Women comprise more than half the workforce. Byham, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In early April, following the news of faulty ignition switches and recall of more than 6 million cars, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a “Speak Up for Safety” program. “GM ” It’s telling, as the AP reported yesterday , that the director of vehicle safety at GM was four rungs down from the CEO prior to the recall.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The ripple effects of the Volkswagon scandal go well beyond the 11 million cars affected, the CEO’s resignation today, and the steep fines the company is facing. Though the story is still developing, there are a few big, interconnected lessons to be drawn from what we know so far. How much does the CEO make? Is it toxic?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Changes at the surface create small, local differences. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. ” the response was “You don’t.” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

Include specific executive leadership instructions in all plans and response scenarios. The Grand Strategy is a 5-step leadership-driven process. Surgical facilities had to be as close as possible to the battle lines to reduce even further the risks and damage associated with transporting the wounded to urgent care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. The path to CEO rarely runs in a straight line; sometimes you have to move backward or sideways in order to get ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. It purchased Cruise Automation, a startup developing self-driving software, for over $1 billion. Consider GE.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Scot serves as the CEO of Arc Skoru Inc., While LEED was designed to recognize leadership which has historically been described as the top 25% of the real estate market, “now we can help everyone else make improvements from where they are.”. I had an opportunity just days ago to talk with Scot Horst. There is no Arc “certification.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. We saw the blood drain from the CEO’s cheeks as he realized that the double-size ED actually had fewer treatment areas than the old one did.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

We consulted with Stuart Hart , the best-selling author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World and an advocate of immersion in unfamiliar circumstances, and with CDC Development Solutions in order to gain insight into how we could make the projects a success. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

As leadership expert Geoff Aigner found in his own research, the biggest road block managers must overcome is their reluctance to engage in tough conversations for fear of being unkind. Leaders who truly care about the development and growth of their employees are able to push through the awkwardness, and tell it straight.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. A Brewing Situation for Grassroots Leadership through Social Power.

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