Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. Pittsburgh — Women comprise more than half the workforce. To get ahead, should a woman act more like a man at work?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

For instance, in his 2021 “Dear CEO” letter , Blackrock chief Larry Fink wrote that no issue is more important than climate change. The book highlights how Swedish organizations have come to lead the way in terms of corporate sustainability, and includes findings and analysis from dozens of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Visit the airport in Beijing and ride the train that transports passengers from terminal to terminal. Here’s the good news: the potential for real innovation, growth, and new prosperity in the United States is vastly greater than the prevailing futureview suggests. Young and old alike are actually excited about their future.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. And that can become a big problem as illustrated by Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape, who once reportedly said: “If we have data, let’s look at the data. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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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. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. But to get change means encouraging innovators. But not fast enough. They want to move fast, unencumbered by tradition.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. This is Canada's No.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. CEOs Get Paid Too Much. A CEO’s actions are scalable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

These activities are most prevalent in sectors such as manufacturing, food services, transportation and warehousing, and retail. But we found that about 30% of the activities in 60% of all occupations could be automated — and that will affect everyone from welders to landscape gardeners to mortgage brokers to CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

He's president and CEO of Siemens Corporation, the U.S. Take a look at the transportation network. Investing in infrastructure also drives innovation, creating the kinds of jobs we want in this country around new technologies like smart grid, renewables and high-speed rail. Why does infrastructure spur innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

To address this challenge, a global transportation company we spoke with is using a strategic lens to expand the list of project ideas to find the ones with the highest potential corporate value, before filtering them. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). rapid new product roll-out). Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. In companies, those profits can be invested in other innovation efforts like new products.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. Move beyond Problem Solving to Innovative Decision Making – As you climbed the stairs to your current position, others called on you to solve problems. Conventional methods-which many never entirely understood in the first place-often don’t work during economic upheaval.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. Cross-sector innovation is also promising. The glory years were decades ago. This amounts to 5.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

companies from innovating their way to competitive advantage. Why are CEOs having just as much trouble finding talent now as they did in tighter job markets? As one bank CEO interviewed for our survey put it, "Our future competitors will not be traditional banks, but large technology companies.". Already, 75% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Fourteen years later, cars outnumbered horses in New York, and visions of manure dystopia were forgotten.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. Jaws dropped.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In it, we distill the insights from over 3,000 McKinsey consulting engagements across Africa, and hone case studies from interviews with dozens of successful CEOs, entrepreneurs, and development leaders. As one example of such innovations, consider the story of Indomie noodles — one of Nigeria’s most successful consumer products.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Or consider transportation. In a suburban world where automobile transportation is the only option, all of those citizens are placed at a huge disadvantage.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. All of these efforts failed.

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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. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. It was Lyft that first invited drivers to provide transportation through their personal vehicles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

The CEO of a large industrial company recently described the Trump administration as “the most pro-business since the Founding Fathers.” They do cost real money and can slow innovation. Department of Transportation review the previously agreed-to fuel efficiency marks. Sure, regulations can be excessive and unwieldy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

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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. GM will place its cars in transportation hubs for use by Lyft drivers. In the future, GM plans to locate its self-driving cars in these hubs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. “Actually,” the CEO responded, “we do have a core competence that unites us: we’re very, very good at winning government contracts.” FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Innovation Strategy Transportation' But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

"Since 1978," the assembled attorneys write, "the nation has relied on competition among airlines to promote affordability, innovation, and service and quality improvements.". Well, there''s definitely been innovation since the deregulation of the U.S. Competition Government Transportation' How''s that been working out for us?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines. All of these companies are doing groundbreaking innovation, but even Musk only has 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Today the airlines that participate in GALs transport more than two-thirds of all international traffic. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. Mergers and acquisitions: If you can’t move upmarket, another option is to buy growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Take transport. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Innovative business models may be required. Company CEOs should take note that an economy, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Audi now sells more luxury cars than any other manufacturer in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. But as Barclay’s CEO Ashok Vaswani says, don’t let the mother ship kill the pirate ship.

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