Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

Inquiry (or more appropriately, asking questions to coach others to come up with their own solutions) is a central skill set for helping others to develop. I find “interesting&# the number of managers who don’t consider developing their employees part of their job. The best mentor to me in this approach is Max DePree.

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Leadership Styles Greenleaf Maslow Blog 202

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Helen: The woman who owned and operated the historical lodge where I worked as a maid in my teenage summers, who told vivid stories about summers gone by. Working as a riveter, a punch press, and extruder operator could be some of the most mind-numbing work I would ever do. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up, bub.&#

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Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 6, 2010

At work, I have learned to seek out others (some in my department, some above my department, some that report to my department) who are trying to improve (learn) themselves. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Greenleaf Maslow Goleman Core Competence 100

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The tyrant boss reported directly to this VP. It took a lot of courage (some may call this stupidity) to report the transgressions of my boss to his boss. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

they don’t directly report to you; you cannot count on your staff to be completely open). Consider belonging to an “advisory group” of external, non competing peers (such as a Mastermind group). Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

Ethics 184

Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Skills Books Blog Mentor 181

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although anecdotal, there is some connection to the research out there as well as what others who meditate regularly have reported. The real benefits come with the habit you develop of regular and ongoing practice. The benefits I’ve noticed Presence: As a child and younger woman, my family may have called me a dreamer.

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Self-aware Stress Blog Greenleaf 176

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Informally visiting with your direct reports, your employees, and your peers often doesn’t require a lot of effort or time. Discover areas you can unite with others on – agreement on similar interests or like mindedness on a topic will help develop connections. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Blog Self-aware Trout Learning-by-Doing 172

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

He’s establishing a regular rhythm for getting feedback from his direct reports. I read a lot of Leadership development articles and blogs, and I think this is one the first ones I’ve read that i’ve actually said to myself “Hey! It’s hard work. He has also asked a senior executive to be a mentor to him.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Blog Mentor 154

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

By continuing your own development, you’ll have a better idea of what matters. So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

Learning-by-Doing 185

Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. The B&N precedent raises the question of whether business schoolseven elite onescan afford to maintain a business-as-usual approach to their traditional core operations. They say yes; I say no..

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Christensen Education Discount Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. Android is Google’s open-source operating system (OS), which means that it can be adopted by any device manufacturer and modified to provide different functionality.

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Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Declaring he’d cull up to 100 brands — many of which he’d acquired and developed — P&G CEO A.G. “This new streamlined P&G should continue to grow faster and more sustainably, and reliably create more value,” he said in a telephone call with reporters and analysts to discuss P&G’s quarterly results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

But “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” as Mark Twain said. With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. They developed a system to insert these messages into normal data traffic and measure the response through South Africa's National AIDS Helpline. Consider these examples: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies. Kimberly Clark utilizes Salesforce''s Chatter to connect to its customers for development of products.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

My work as an executive coach involves looking at a lot of 360 degree feedback reports. They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Leaders who operate in this mode lose their peers in no time flat. They over focus on short term results and under focus on relationships.

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way). In healthy and aligned organizations, the stated values and operating values are one and the same. You get what you audit.

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Innovation gets stymied when a company defines itself by what it does rather than by what it knows or owns—when its “concept of self” is built around products and services rather than around core competencies and strate­gic assets. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

he wasn’t the person responsible, but someone who reported to him was). Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I had a client who very publicly took the blame for something done in his organization (i.e.,

Learning-by-Doing 188

Learning-by-Doing Blog Environment Greenleaf 188

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Core Business.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. .” Protect the work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8