Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. I recommend that team building training be conducted as part of a company Strategic Plan, with top management participating. Management – Introduction.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? Now is the time for directors and executive committees alike to re-balance the strategy-governance scale. It’s not surprising.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Mine your backyard.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Patience and a long-term view. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Appoint a project leader to direct the team, define deadlines for key milestones, such as contracting with an external IT vendor or obtaining ethics approval (if necessary), and hold the team accountable for delivering on them. A sustainable outcomes measurement system must engage a broad range of functions within the organization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Long-term Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

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. Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

It''s the salesperson''s responsibility to anticipate and diffuse the main sources of customer stress during the selection process: budgetary stress, corporate citizenship stress, organizational stress, vendor selection stress, informational stress, and evaluation committee stress.

Stress 8

Stress Uncertainty Committee Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

.” If someone with Calhoun’s experience has trouble with this – he’s chairman of Nielsen’s board, sits on boards of Boeing and Caterpillar, and is on the management committee at Blackstone – I know he can’t be alone.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57