Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

They were also very heavy, as they had to withstand the rigors of mostly unpaved roads used by the horse-and-wagon mode of transportation. The cost of finding and retraining workers was becoming crippling. They were hand-built, often to personal specifications. Ford’s company was in a precarious position.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 25, 2017

Leadership is about influencing people in a specific direction, but sometimes that direction needs to change. There is no additional cost to you.]. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, I thought it was going to be all about what the title suggests – developing successful business strategies, (possibly with some kind of nautical theme).

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Along with the economic and humanitarian cost, this was just a stopgap arrangement. Our research finds that 32% of organizations are replacing full-time employees with contingent workers as a cost-saving measure,” said Kropp. The new reality was that companies needed to adopt nonstandard work models.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. Keep up the great work Kevin!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. A content writing service, for example, plays a valuable support role in product development.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Green businesses have something to talk about from methods, sourcing, allies, new developments, and an enthusiastic customer base. By reducing transport, shipping, storage, and delivery costs from international markets and focusing on products that are made directly in a certain neighborhood, city, state, or region, costs go down.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Cost-per-hire is the sum of external and internal hiring costs divided by the number of new hires in the same time frame. Your cost per hire may be more useful if you calculate it for type of positions, e.g., you expect to spend more to hire a mid-level manager than you would an entry-level employee. Reliable transportation?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

We encourage Employees to grow and develop their careers within Southwest by offering personal and professional development through Southwest’s University, tuition reimbursement and opportunities to promote. Sadly, it can also be transporting someone to see a sick family member for the last time. PHOTOS: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This would all be fine and dandy, except for three little reasons: 1) they cost money and therefore create massive problems of their own, 2) they generally don't work, and finally, 3) they generate secondary consequences (some would say "unintended" consequences, but given the power lust of many bureaucrats, one wonders).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm. When a leader offers all these and still fails, flawed leadership style may be the culprit. But remember. Linda holds a Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. General Electric is a good example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. Of course, the field won't be thrilled with time, effort and cost of debugging what's been crashed. Yes, the benefits of testing should clearly outweigh its costs. Few things are more cost-effective than creatively cheap tests.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Or consider transportation. Or they can use ZipCar , at a fraction of the cost of car ownership. Consider senior care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

The global women''s movement in the developing world doesn''t yet reach these women, focusing instead on helping the poorest of the poor, cultivating female political leaders, and building the business acumen of female entrepreneurs. Access to professional development and advancement opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They're concerned with growing budget deficits, uncertain tax policy, rising energy costs, and crumbling infrastructure. First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. Today, we address critical transportation needs in isolation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Consider new software for cars.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, the humdrum issue of transportation infrastructure barely registers.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased. Do you have good instincts about people?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. And with wisdom about its predictability comes opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware). But others did this, too. Fixing the Problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones. Worse, we risk cannibalizing our premium offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But it is also one of the most amenable to simple, low-cost behavioral interventions. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Collaboration is not a style. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We conservatively estimate that the related costs of diabetes — including medication, supplies, hospital care, and the treatment of complications — will exceed $1 trillion a year by 2045. We developed a new projection tool , which plots the trajectory of diabetes prevalence over time. Urban planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Another major industrial company moving to address water risk is ITT , the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat, and control fluids. billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. How did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Value proponents further insist that inputs be measured comprehensively to include all the costs of producing desired outcomes. Its emphasis on the whole patient and comprehensively measured costs would encourage teamwork among clinicians and coordination of care across specialties, clinical units, and health care organizations.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. The Enron scandal alone has cost each taxpayer twelve dollars. September 11 is attributed as costing New York City 83,000 jobs and negatively impacting its economy by $1 billion. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. While the hard infrastructure (reliable electricity, transportation and telecommunication) in small Chinese towns is usually fine, their soft infrastructure is often a big problem.

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Real Estate Telecommunications Collins Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

And during this politically challenging period of cost-cutting and spending caps, politicians may find it tempting to cut funding to innovative activities. This necessitates innovation and significant investment not only in power generation but also in the electricity grid, in the transport system, and in homes and factories.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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