Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

The idea is to blend creative vision-the ‘act’-with scientific method to get a stronger balance of imagination and practicality. Establish clear kill points for constructive endings. The decision on whether to spend significantly upfront to get the product off the group or develop gradually over time is a tough act to balance.

Succession 71

Succession Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Diversity 71

Chris Brady

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Mediocrity is worshipped, decadence masquerades as creativity, and lazy is the new cool. Make excellence the cornerstone of the life you are constructing. We reach for an explanation that takes the pressure off ourselves and find one readily at hand in the popular culture around us. Truth, however, is a pesky thing.

Letter 122

Letter Blog Travel Definition 122

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Developing a culture of caring within your organization to engage your employees is vital to the strategy to drive success to your business. But what they don’t realize is that they are damaging the business by failing to develop staff. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable.

Motivation 59

Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? Community Development, Infrastructure, Education, HealthCare Delivery.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Such relationships form the basis of an executive's ability to influence and persuade others and deal constructively with conflict and the differences of opinion that inevitably arise in fast-paced organizations. None of the steps I've described is either easy or foolproof.

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

Team Building 104

Team Building Construction Learning-by-Doing Training 104

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

MARCH 12, 2015

But, occasionally, you can discover new information that “will help you construct a solution.” Immediately develop a hiring plan to replace the employee. Case Study #1: Be creative and accommodating about knowledge transfer. . “Very often you can do nothing about it,” she acknowledges.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies.

ROE 12

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The code not only works, other coders — perhaps less talented — can safely and creatively build on it, with it and for it. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

Engineering 14

Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They are very engaging, creative, and different, not to mention, very high-quality.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. If a company wants to be better than anyone else, at something relevant to its customers, its specialists must be more efficient, technically proficient, and creative than ever before. Frito-Lay Inc.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. 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.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies. I love creative thinkers and her presentation focused like a laser beam on creativity of thought and approach.

Blog 353

Blog Blue Ocean Strategy Collins Video 353