Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Hire on personality, not core competencies -Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. So you just have to be skeptical, and ask those questions, and dig a little deeper. Even with people you’ve known professionally for many years. Even with friends.

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Decentralization Leadership Core Competence Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

What drives your business’s economic engine? To reach your full potential as a leader, you must understand your core competency and that of your firm. Core competency is what you do best and at what you’re most competitive. Your core competency is something you’d do even if you weren’t paid to do it.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

One innovation I’m particularly excited about is the experimental approach we are taking to evaluate different hybrid work approaches, working with several volunteer engineering and sales leaders. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas! Photo: Adobe . .

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Generally speaking there are two types of spheres of influence…those that just evolve over time by default, and those that are strategically engineered. Participate in the Dialogue : Develop a strong core competency, and then give freely of your time and knowledge. Don’t be a joiner unless you can be a contributor.

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Influence Leadership Core Competence Quality 419

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? There are always closer adjacencies that represent a logical extension of a company’s competencies and strategic assets. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Now 27 years on from my 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. Leaders are not genetic engineers. The personality profile also has to match. Because ultimately, that is what you really cannot change.

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Leadership Core Competence Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 259

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? If vision is the destination you’re trying to reach on your hike, your mission is what got you out of bed that morning, excited to scale the mountain. 2) What is it that the world really needs?

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Used to set priorities around core competencies. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? Your organization’s vision statement should convey a larger organizational purpose and be: Clear, focused, and well-articulated.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. I’d be interested in your comments… Share and Enjoy: View Comments Mark Oakes Mike, Good Post!

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Realize that it does belong in your everyday interactions at work, and that you must give it away in order to model the compassion you want expressed at work. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. I had the car for 20 days before I hit a truck head on and totaled it. I escaped with minor scrapes and stitches, miraculously.

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Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product.

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Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Attracting workers skilled in advanced analytics will become increasingly important for the company (as will the technology and processes required to translate these skills into real sources of advantage); industrial engineering and plant management skills will become less critical to fueling the company’s long-term growth.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. I am a strong believer that everything or every process can be improved and we have to change our self to accommodate the improvement.

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Resistance Class Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 193

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Instead of recommendation engines that suggest what book to read or TV series to watch, AH engines will propose new titles and concepts for media consumption. Automating hypotheses that will excite marketers and financiers as well as engineers and designers will be as much a computational art as a software science.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Can we execute it–does it align with our core competencies? The next challenge is to strike the right balance between getting the most out of these opportunities AND keeping your performance engine humming. If it takes off in the best possible way, will the benefits be worth it? Butter before Jam. Cake before icing.

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Innovation Engineering Core Competence Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Increase R&D spending in emerging markets and focus it on local needs: Harman's core competency is engineering, and Paliwal shifted the engineering function's center of gravity from Germany and the United States to key emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. Internal debate raged.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s been estimated that India needs $5 trillion in infrastructure investment to sustain its economic growth, but local Indian companies lack the competencies needed. India’s 10,000 engineering institutes produce more engineers than China and the U.S. India’s emerging middle class is strong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. What are our core-competencies?), Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Who are our competitors?

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Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

So Amazon started to develop an architecture that could be re-employed over and over again by different engineering teams for different projects. Andy and the team could have stopped at Level 3, but instead, they did an internal assessment of their core competencies, which obviously included retail.

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Retail Core Competence Project Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

For example, if you’re an engineer, it’s not a tough bet to say that, within a few years, having robotics or augmented reality experience would be appealing. The key is that in the lattice world, continual professional reinvention needs to be something we embrace as a core competency. It creates option value.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And, importantly, how do we make innovation a true core competence? by Ashley Good, Engineers Without Borders Canada. The state of the art when it comes to developing innovation as a core competence. Of course, it's variety and the daring to be different that produces game-changing innovation. Fail Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Volkswagen’s software that allowed diesel engines in its vehicles to cheat on emissions tests is another case of a top-down fixed strategy that suffered in implementation. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. It is applying knowhow from its defense business, where there is high demand for stringent engine monitoring, to its commercial engines business, where it is offering to improve airline fleet operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Pursuing bold innovations in health care, life sciences, and space explorations will require core competencies at the intersection of human minds and fast machines (to paraphrase GE’s definition of industrial internet). A talent magnet. The creation of Alphabet should worry companies in many industries.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Consequently, device manufacturers that adopt the Google stack must bundle both Google Search and Google Play, which essentially locks out the other search engine providers and store fronts. Moreover, Google itself has demonstrated how keen it is to preserve its ability to collect data through its search engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Consider the example of Dan, who worked as sales engineer in the late 1990s for a company that developed voice recognition technology — a perfect fit for his background in and passion for linguistics and computer science. A few years later, the firm merged with its chief competitor. Look for ways to get involved in growth areas.

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Career Self-aware Proposal Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Christensen’s initial work was done during the 1990s when a group of scholars, many at Harvard Business School, were studying why established companies, like Polaroid or DEC, struggled to adapt to technological change despite ample resources, talented engineers, and admired leaders. Core competencies became core rigidities.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Great leaders consider communication a core competence, so why don''t more businesses? When I''m writing an essay, I always ask my software engineers for constructive feedback. (I''m One of the most effective speeches of all time, Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address , was only 701 words.

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Company Handbook Core Competence Open-book 13