Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

P urpose: What do you need to know? L earning: Where do you want to learn it from? The goal of your learning is personal growth. This is where you’ll manage your plan. This book will assist you in developing your own self-leadership skills. You will need to fill in the specifics with what’s appropriate for you.

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P&L Learning-by-Doing Planning Letter 107

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty.

Airlines 53

Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

Can the company simultaneously manage a world of free users supported by advertising and premium service offerings — and a world of paying customers looking for best-in-class communications applications? Can both goals be pursued simultaneously? Leave the Skype unit to promote product development and user growth.

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P&L How To Business Model Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. Goal setting : As a rule, CEOs don’t give enough attention to setting goals.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Managers, whose annual reviews hinge on quarterly gains, see no return on investing in what appear to be their employees’ pipe dream projects. And yet management sponsorship is crucial for any ambitious initiative. A majority of public companies pledge allegiance to short-term profit over long-term vision.

Innovation 11

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. What are my goals? The challenge is then to articulate that vision in various situations: a meeting with your manager, a networking chat, or a job interview. Remember the goal is to find the right job, not just a job.

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. The best successes are earned and learned.

P&L 56

P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. One of the things that surprised me most about security at Facebook is the level of attention and support that we receive from the company’s senior management team. After all, hackers have P&L sheets too.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Who has P&L authority? Second, they’re specific enough to help senior management make trade-offs. It includes accountabilities.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice. None of these have defined revenue or profit goals, because their purpose is to explore new opportunities that can’t be quantified.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. In its simplest form, it looks like this: The goal, as with any ROI calculation, is to end up with a positive number, and ideally as high a number as possible. Holding themselves accountable.

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. I'm developing better team leaders around me.". My sister owns a business and my brother-in-law has a property development job, so they have demanding schedules. My goal is for them to be effective all the time.

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P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. “If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. ” Robert P. ” Roy L. It is possible for a company and its managers to know much about certain arts and sciences without having the will to pursue them. Running the business. Paul Getty.

Strategy 57

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

Our understanding of how organizations think and act doesn’t always make this distinction between the interests of the enterprise and its managers. Most Business Leaders have P&L goals that were established in the prior year — and anything that puts those projections at risk is a tough sell.

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P&L Due Diligence CIO COO 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Why is that? Takes time to get to know his/her peers and their interests.

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

You need to add the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary.” With it, we articulate our M ission, the constituencies we S erve, the P lays we’re going to run this year, the plays we are going to O mit, and how we will T rack our progress. “But it’s backfiring in scale-up mode.

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P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

The stated goal: Place the best person in every position. So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. After being promoted to VP, he easily wrapped up the project, creating a fairly simple form for managers to fill out. But that had helped Ekdahl.

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Case Study P&L Performance Review Review 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Seeing how Atrius orchestrated the transition from being a fee-for-service provider to one that predominantly relies on value-based payment can benefit others pursuing the same goal. Instead of incrementally improving processes, the goal became replacing them and creating whole new care models. The results have been remarkable.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10