Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. Supports collaborators in developing their own businesses, offering referrals.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Chris Brady

JULY 9, 2010

   But then the exit was entirely nonexistent due to construction. Being the experienced world travelers we are, we simply took the next exit and navigated according to the sometimes visible bay of Naples in the distance, in combination with our ever-so-helpful GPS. Second cousin to Elvis Post Operative.

Travel 94

Travel Letter Construction Blog 94

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

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It didn't matter that we were surrounded by a hundred busy travelers eagerly making their way around us in the world's busiest airport, this was one of those moments you just don't miss. A moment's glance contained the explanation: she was trying to walk on the tiles of a certain color while dodging the rest.

Open-book 124

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog 124

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Chief among these was something called the Double Jump (and its cousin the Triple Jump, operating in much the same way). Spade-full after spade-full we'd hurl, until eventually we had constructed a pretty fair replica of what we were seeing on the official tracks on the weekends. The concept is simple.

Blog 103

Blog Learning-by-Doing Letter Travel 103

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

(Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.). Whenever I travel to an African city , I marvel at the dynamism of business activity taking place on the ground. Myth #3: Fast economic growth means quick returns.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

For years, Ive has obsessed as much about the internal construction of Apple hardware as he has over the external design (jump to minute 3:25 of this video to hear him gush about a thermal system). Even the first generation of iOS was locked down before establishing the mobile developer ecosystem. Imperfections. Strategic Risks.

Software 8

Software System Construction Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

As one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges because African-inspired institutions are forming. In order to understand this shift, we need to better understand how it developed. The new paint has no smell and dries within minutes of application. I was impressed.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Business Model Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Other activists have expertise in development and commercial real estate.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A food company, for example, outfits vehicles with entire kitchens to demonstrate the most effective and creative ways to use its specialty food ingredients in food service operations. Many products can be complicated to operate or dangerous if used incorrectly, and a van can save a customer from traveling to a training center.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. The change will become invisible. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business.

Strategy 9

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Sebastian and his partner Yulia Kryazheva travelled to many of the company’s locations worldwide (85+) to talk to stakeholders involved in the mesh on which the company is thriving. It is an attitude of openness and sharing that anyone operating within a social network needs to have anyway.

Social Capital 169

Social Capital Open-book Network Economy Innovation 169

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The people who don't believe this don't read history, I guess, or haven't traveled enough to third world countries. Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

QAspire

JULY 18, 2010

It is people who work, co-operate with each other, demonstrate trust, work as a team, share a common goal, exercise their ‘discretionary effort’ and make things happen. Team work plays a crucial role in success of any nature of project in any field, be it a manufacturing, construction, s/w or sports.

Succession 149

Succession Team Project Quality 149

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

But, occasionally, you can discover new information that “will help you construct a solution.” “Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says. Immediately develop a hiring plan to replace the employee.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do.

Agility 11

Agility Team Crisis Operations 11

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Skills management.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Whole Foods developed geo-fences around its stores, as well as its competitors’ stores, to target relevant audiences and achieved a post-click conversion rate that was three times higher than the national average. Integrating such social reports with geolocation delivers two added advantages.

Short-term 8

Short-term Brand Long-term Media 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. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

When developing new products, processes, or even businesses, most companies aren't sufficiently rigorous in defining the problems they're attempting to solve and articulating why those issues are important. Well-defined problems lead to breakthrough solutions. The Subarctic Oil Problem. How the Problem Was Defined. The ALS Research Problem.

Power 9

Power Proposal Innovation Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. And, paradoxically, doing more may end up making you feel more centered and whole. ” They allow their work to evolve.

PR 8

PR Long-term Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. Entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems aren’t simple, easily graspable objects; they are a construct we use to make sense of an exceedingly complex reality. And they are indeed important to be able to see and understand.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. Blockchain is a different construct, providing a universal set of tools for cryptographic assurance of data integrity, standardized auditing, and formalized “contracts” for data access.

Health Care 8

Health Care Decentralization White Paper Technology 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

Books 368

Books Leadership P&L Blog 368