Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Srini Pillay wrote in the Harvard Business Review, “The brain operates optimally when it toggles between focus and unfocus, allowing you to develop resilience, enhance creativity, and make better decisions too.” Travel helps to spark creativity as does creating temporal distance. It must be constructive and respectful.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The researchers highlight the particular impact on businesses in the travel and hospitality sectors, who have all suffered due to the lockdown measures. By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Face-to-face interactions.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Many economists were predicting a global recession before the coronavirus crisis, but the prognosis now is even gloomier. Now is the time to truly live up to that ideal. Link ideas to actions.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Cousera’s data shows that across all skill domains, the link between proficiency and stock returns is 43%, with this level of return largely enduring during the Covid crisis. They believe this transformation will include everything from managing change to the automation of processes that can no longer be safely performed in person.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. military base. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

The lagging effects of this event like a potential recession and long-term travel bans will continue to test us all. Since this situation is so unprecedented, the first few posts in this series placed the focus on crisis management and how to combat the specific challenges being presented each week.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

Though many new remote workers state they miss the humdrum, social connections, and collaboration of the congregate workplace, many are also celebrating the absence of a hectic commute and travel-required meetings outside the office. Remote Teams and Workplace Compliance Issues .

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As you and your company move from phase to phase – or, embrace the new normal and work-from-home culture indefinitely – consider prioritizing the four C’s as part of your HR operations tactics. Transparent communication is paramount in any situation – but especially during a crisis. Compassion. Communication.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

I'm traveling this week, but will follow-up with you next week to arrange the Skype call. The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. I'd love to schedule a skype call at some point if possible BTW! Scott [link] mikemyatt Hi Scott: Thanks for comment. Thanks Scott.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. Who doesn't? Heskett and W. Earl Sasser, Jr. They can foster "ownership" behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

At some point, we all confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that threatens to distract us from work. Here’s some advice on how to navigate work when you’re having a personal crisis. There is no right answer when handling a crisis situation. Issara Willenskomer/Unsplash. Decide what you need.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. Moreover, it is those leaders who receive the negative press, those leaders who just can’t seem to get the job done that universally seem to be void in some or all of the aforementioned traits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

We're in an energy crisis, and this one is personal. For the past eight weeks, I'd spent at least two to three days traveling. They each listed their challenges: incredibly long hours, relentless travel, 24-7 digital demands, time away from their families and insufficient energy to even take care of themselves. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 15, 2010

Posted by: Vince Ramella | June 15, 2010 at 05:40 PM Operation "Ambush Rival Canoe" overshot. In a crisis, leaders keep their heads because they keep their perspective. " Posted by: Matt Foote | June 15, 2010 at 05:39 PM Alfredo learned first hand that, "A team is only as strong as its weakest link" -EJECT!!!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, it might be critical that a company wins a new order (which will be awarded on a given date) from a major customer, or gets a factory fully operational by a certain day. ” The organization, if it is operating rationally, should be willing to accept however much improvement it can get from that fixed investment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you. housing sector.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Just as we gain wisdom from the business failures and corporate scandals, we can learn equally valuable lessons from crisis situations that were successfully handled. It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We have a crisis in health care delivery, and if we can fix that problem we’ll have more than enough resources to cover all the uninsured and underinsured. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. But, in our view, Washington is focused on the wrong issue. The real problem is that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Serving on a board is extremely time and travel intensive – a commitment that should be factored in before accepting a directorship.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Brownout, a term also used to describe part of the life cycle of a star, is different from burnout because knowledge workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis. However, these executives are often operating in a silent state of continual overwhelm, and the predictable consequence is disengagement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. Since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there has been significant growth in innovative alternative sources of loan capital to small businesses, driven by technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. Many iconic brands dot the shopping districts of the major cities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Brazil, which hosted the World Cup in 2014, is suffering from a deep recession and a political crisis. While the International Olympic Committee touts host cities’ economic legacy , the immense operational challenge of running a mega event creates intense logistical, security, and financial pressures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 11, 2010

And, when my grandfather returned home from his travels, and later became ill, Nana took constant care of him. I think the difference is that a bossy woman operates from a place of love and a bully from a place of personal power. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? Bossiness was a necessary skill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations. Berkeley, that found that, “car sharers report reducing their vehicle miles travelled by 44% (addressing travel congestion). Further, sharing economy firms should seek outside validators.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Washington ran his own spy network during the war and was often the only one privy to the full scope of secret operations against the British. Very often, when he was traveling, he would rise early to sneak out of a town or enter it before he could be escorted by local dignitaries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, a rural branch might offer a faster development path, as every employee tends to wear multiple hats in its operation, but that fact might be lost if a husband's work is in an urban setting, and the woman's work is an afterthought in their decision of where to live.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I believe their governments did caution them about travelling to Japan.) As we approached Nippori Station on the East of Tokyo the announcer apologized that the train was three minutes late, explaining that they were "operating at lower speeds for the purpose of energy conservation."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. I take time off, get together with friends, stop traveling on missions for a bit.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The financial crisis forced the firm to make cuts. He didn't take a job right away (though 14 months later he joined the legal department at another bank) but instead traveled and visited friends and family. "It He therefore needed operational experience and leadership opportunities, neither of which he was getting in his current role.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. It’s for techies. It’s for hip Silicon Valley startups.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For instance, I am traveling to Seattle to work with leaders soon, and will use several profound notions of Dr. Doidge’s applications about rigid routines that could change with a few adjustments to the brain’s plasticity. I recently started Tony Blair's book so we'll have to compare notes down the road.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Make constant improvement a focus.

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