Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers. The same holds true for the CEO and executives at smaller companies.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In July, the CEO of Whole Foods Markets issued a mea culpa after the supermarket was found to have manipulated product data, over-stating the weight of pre-packaged produce and meats. Business managers are missing the real issue: the people who collect, store, manage and process our data are not being held to any ethical standards.

Ethics 8

Ethics Software Engineering Technology 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Instill discipline.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. The legal and regulatory entanglements were apparently deemed too daunting to confront.)

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Where is the succession planning?

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

IBM recently asked this question of 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries. To address this question we engaged in what some might refer to as a reverse-engineering exercise. They encouraged those about them to be more innovative. What do top executives want from their leaders? They simply do not know what to do. What inspiring leaders do.

Learning-by-Doing 12

Learning-by-Doing Goal Ethics Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

Crisis 80

Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation' Then you start worrying.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

Compliance 10

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Now Ewing is deploying her creative talents to help engineers develop the personality of Sophie, an AI program in the health care field. And then there are ethical challenges.

Brand 9

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. The Design Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Early this year, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly ended the company''s "results only work environment" (ROWE) program that judged corporate employees only on (gasp!) Because women CEOs are held to higher standards , that''s why.). For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred.

Morale 9

Morale Class Cooper Ethics 9