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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? Millennials and Gen z are 60% of the workforce.

Trends 102

Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Operations Organizational culture' As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Of course a company should never neglect its largest developed markets.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. Despite this growing obsession, however, big companies are still not very good at it.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Jessica Sklar, then the band’s intern and now Machine Shop’s Chief Strategy Officer, evolved the online discussions into in-person meet-ups and events at concerts, developing what came to be known as the “Linkin Park Underground.” Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. But can these organizations adapt fast enough? Over a third (39 percent) are moderately digital.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Creativity and ingenuity have always been precious. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In August 1987, for example, under severe United States pressure, the Israel government abruptly and controversially cancelled the Lavi fighter development project that was to be Israel's answer to the F-16 and the societal equivalent of NASA's moon program. The reality is, they almost always adapt and grow in creative and novel ways.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8