Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Will the CEO allow you to work in these arenas for a short time? Leadership Inspirations – Prepare, Prepare, Prepare. You’ll need this sort of groundwork for upward mobility.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

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? Those trains routinely operate at speeds of 150 to 200 miles per hour, and in 2012, the average deviation from schedule was a miniscule 36 seconds. The glory years were decades ago. Fifty years later, the U.S.

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Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Can you operate weapons? Transportation. Followers Categories "Tip Clip" video series (9) Behavior (42) Books (17) Brain Insights (40) Character Heroes (23) Cosmos (14) Encouragement (12) Fortune Cookies (27) Inspirational Quotes (49) Leadership (34) Leadership video series (7) Meditation (11) Motivation (15) Movies (16) My Story. (78)

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

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. "To It's easy to tell them apart.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

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.

Transportation 14

Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

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.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

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.

Chief Operating Officer 10

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Firefighting operations continued for two days. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report that cited multiple failures by PG&E and government regulators. Second, the outcome risk — the "bad things" that happen in financial and operational performance metrics as a result of the process problems.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Panera operates some 1,500 bakery cafes nationwide. UPS's and Federal Express's for transport? You often hear CEOs say that their first obligation is to their shareholders. Think about that. What a terrible blow to business.

Long-term 14

Long-term Core Competence Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

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. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

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. .”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. ” the response was “You don’t.”

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it. But most of all, it is a failure of leadership to harness and unleash the remarkable potential of the American worker.

Company 50

Company Organizational Behavior Human Resources Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. This remains a CEO’s prime responsibility, and it has become much harder in an era defined by lower growth, impatient investors, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid technological change. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Among other things, BMW has invited suggestions on the future of transport, discussing more than 300 ideas including new approaches to electric vehicles, parking, and communication between vehicles. That leadership style is effective as long as you’re always one step ahead of rivals, and know what’s best for your team.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Among other things, BMW has invited suggestions on the future of transport, discussing more than 300 ideas including new approaches to electric vehicles, parking, and communication between vehicles. That leadership style is effective as long as you’re always one step ahead of rivals, and know what’s best for your team.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

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. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

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. A new and improved LEED v4.1

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Real Estate Benchmarking Arkes Construction 170

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. A Brewing Situation for Grassroots Leadership through Social Power. The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. Canada border crossing.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2022

As longtime Republican political operative Bill Greener aptly put it, quoting others: “Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” But CEOs are among the least trusted professions, just barely ahead of used-car dealers and politicians.” Articulate bold, positive steps you are taking to fix the problem. Don’t be argumentative.

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Handbook Public Relations Chief Executive Officer How To 94

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” The declaration of over 180 CEOs who are part of the Business Roundtable that redefines the purpose of the corporation is just one example. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

Succession 13

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 13

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. Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes).

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8