Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” For example, for several of my C-level clients, team management has emerged as an area where letting go can both free up executive time and help develop direct reports.

Delegation 137

Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Bono has described himself as a traveling salesman of ideas within songs. U2 is further unified by its participative, consensus-oriented decision-making style that gives each member a voice. These attitudes, uses of language, and behaviors described above develop a bond of connection among the members of U2.

Team 273

Team Consensus Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage 273

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

How exactly does a mentor develop a vision of the mentee’s ideal self? Very quickly, the committee reached consensus on a selectee. As we went around the table to discuss her, I made the comment: “This job requires a lot of travel, and she just had a baby. As it turns out, it’s all about the art of affirmation.

Mentor 12

Mentor Committee Self-aware Career 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. since the index was first developed in 2008. Only 28% of the S&P 500 still generate all their revenue in the United States.

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

Insurance 10

Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

In 2000, Chrysler''s then president, James Holden, traveled to India to study the market. Markets change much faster in developing nations than they do in developed countries, as these examples show. Tracking stakeholders'' perspectives may not yield a consensus prediction. Be prepared to change course.

Marketing 8

Marketing Market Segmentation Merchandising B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. Over the years, they have developed and delivered over 25,000 affordable and appropriate artificial legs to amputees in remote areas of Thailand and surrounding countries. He set out to develop a solution. — based on innovations PIH originally developed in Rwanda. In the U.S.,

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." We'll give architects and developers the challenge to experiment with new designs, new floor plans, and new materials.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Dual-career couples especially struggle with tradeoffs, not only between work and personal life, but between each of their careers (and most don’t have the option of chucking it all to travel the world together). Indeed, this is what happens when couples don’t actively work to build and maintain consensus on what they want.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

But here's the bottom line: there is little oversight or quality control even with webinars that count toward professional development requirements, or ones for which the participant or his organization have paid a fee. How can webinar developers engage viewers? Webinars don't require the time or expense of travel.

Webinar 8

Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just as lack of consensus around finances can doom a marriage, lack of support from one''s spouse can effectively sink a career. Here are four strategies for developing and maintaining an effective dual-career partnership.

Career 8

Career COO Conference Consensus 8

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 4, 2016

He has never traveled internationally but decided that now is the time to build more bridges between cultures. I also worked with a non-profit children’s theater company that developed and executed a plan to bring drama training to children in 20 under-served schools. It helps people shift from “no, but…” to “yes, and….”

Diversity 120

Diversity Consensus Training Career 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Bezos could get more interested in space travel than selling massive quantities of stuff at just above cost. Nobody complains.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Suppose that later this evening, after you have stepped away from your keyboard, put on your coat, and traveled home for supper, your organization underwent a magical transformation, reshaping itself into the world’s best workplace. How would you know? What would be different the next time you entered the building?

Edmondson 8

Edmondson Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Backdoors are lines of code developers intentionally install in firmware so that manufacturers can safely upgrade our devices and operating systems. Blockchain.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Lead from Within

JULY 14, 2015

Is your organization led by consensus, or does the leader make decisions single-handedly? Sometimes all our musts add up to a whole bunch of I don’t want to! If you see a colleague being berated by your boss, do you feel you have to bite your tongue? Must too often prevents us from expressing our values, feelings, and judgments.

Consensus 60

Consensus Learning-by-Doing Travel Career 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. Some, but not all, of this disparity is related to Southwest’s refusal to sell through online travel agencies such as Priceline and Orbitz.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The two executives had to pause before crossing the gravel road that ran through Westmid's grounds, because of the steady stream of trucks traveling to and from construction sites around Birmingham and all the way to London. Hammond was traveling and unable to attend the meeting, so Jane had monopolized it. I know you do," Tommy said.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Though not yet confirmed, Zika is suspected of causing microcephaly — babies born with small heads and abnormal brain development — and paralysis in adults. This approach would benefit from the accelerated development of easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostics for Zika. Zika has already become fairly widespread.

Crisis 8

Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. “Unless immigrants are certain they will be allowed to remain within a country, they may not invest in developing a business in that country,” the researchers say.

Human Capital 82

Human Capital Crisis Politics Policies 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues. Delta drew outrage and lost tax breaks when it decided to end a travel discount for the National Rifle Association. What to do, now that the neutral middle ground has become a quicksand? It draws on the work of R.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

To foster this kind of collaboration, managers need to develop personal relationships — and some amount of trust — with potential partners. The struggle to reach consensus in Washington over spending, taxes, debt limits, and other issues is a case in point on how the absence of relationships constrains compromise.

Banking 8

Banking Travel Consensus Bottom-up 8