Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. 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.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. Maybe that’s just me.

Cooper 10

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., He's a man of strong opinions, generally backed up by lots and lots of research. JF: What about quarterly earnings? BL: Not really.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results. Talented managers often get frustrated by their pace of career advancement, sign on with a new company, and run into the same problems that were an obstacle in their prior organization.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I learned this from working with senior executives at one of the world’s largest high-tech engineering companies recently, who were concerned that many of their big customer programs were over budget and behind schedule. As a result, we still need the Work-Out process to improve cross-boundary collaboration.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 13

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13