Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Strategy #1: Do Good, Grow Beyond. Strategy #2: Stream It, Don’t Ship It. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. The company had very few software engineers. Yet software engineering skills are key to GE’s future. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. billion — not a bad decade.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It could also include sophisticated software based on the WebOS (the operating system HP leveraged from the Palm acquisition). HP's strategy for decades has been to not have a single approach to solving customer problems. Instead, it offers customers flexibility with regard to choices like operating systems and software.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Skeptics initially doubted the engineering feasibility of fast battery switches, the ability to roll out infrastructure on a national basis, and the willingness of carmakers to come on board. Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes).

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