Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” Their ideal leader is a person who develops “win-win” relationships and is sensitive to their needs for personal growth and development. Leaders will need to develop skills in negotiation and “win-win” relationships. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. Some large investors already have a long-term view. Take consumer goods giant Unilever.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. Be mission-driven Social entrepreneurship is facing a serious problem of ego.

Short-term 187

Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills? You’ll be glad you did.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. We might expect the regions with the lowest overall averages to be those dominated by developing or emerging economies.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. Executives in market leaders in those sectors need to watch these developments carefully, because the seeds of transformation are being sown as we speak.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. At a time when some of the world’s biggest newspaper companies are getting digitally disrupted, Harris exited the sector long ago but moved into adjacent industries. That makes him sound like Google. Take Southwest Airlines as an example.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Telecommunications company Telefonica is currently developing a “ Data Locker ” scheme that allows users to see their own data, including the social networks of those they talk to and text with. However, many companies are recognizing that it is worth investing in a long-term reputation for security and privacy.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Sun did briefly maintain an arrangement that it termed an "alliance," one of the few times it used that term publicly.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 Long-Term Thinking. billion and net profits of $4.49

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. Other Eurozone economies invest four times as much in relative terms, around 2.5%

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential. times the estimated $169.5

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? Though it didn't deal explicitly with the concept of disruption, it did bring up a concept very important to the disruption of the television industry: ecosystem development. The ecosystem will develop.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

trillion between now and 2030: around 40 percent on housing, 27 percent on water infrastructure, 16 percent on roads and railways, 13 percent on electricity networks, and the rest on telecommunications, ports, and airports. We calculate that China needs to make an investment of $17.3

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. Because credit isn't the only issue holding women back.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. The model can be a win-win as long as the two companies address different customer segments. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely. billion in arears) that the government is now a reliable borrower.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

.” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. food processor General Mills, noting that his company was quickly expanding internationally, said, “One of our challenges was how to develop a truly globally mobile culture. Ken Powell of U.S. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

National circumstances heavily influenced the development of Traditionalists (born from 1928 to 1945) and Boomers (born from 1946 to 1960). China ended its long civil war, and transformed into the Communist People's Republic of China. X'ers in these areas tend not to rely on institutions for long-term financial security.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Ironically, the primary losers in this disruption, at least in the near term, are the consumers themselves. Furthermore, there are three fundamental structural factors to be mindful of as we understand the Indian context: India’s ties to cash are strong, even by developing country standards. million hours and $0.5

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. The CMO of a telecommunications company, for instance, found the biggest spike in churn came when customers moved. This talent- and knowledge-sharing approach can also help you develop a more comprehensive view of your customers.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

It expanded its scope to include related markets such as handsets and applications; it failed to find the market "effectively competitive" (the term that characterized the previous years' conclusions); and it arrived at that new finding thanks to a very different mode of economic inquiry. wireless market was "effectively competitive.".

Wireless 12

Wireless Report Price Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

The usual argument is that China has significant technology gaps, and that it has a long way to go before it can catch up with the West. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen. and other developed countries will find difficult to match. Unlike in the U.S.,

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

His views on digital transformations include his experience as a member of the research team that developed the first web browser (Mosaic, the predecessor to Netscape) in the early 1990s and as a technology entrepreneur. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Gobble should be, and has been, rewarded for outperformance in terms of a metric that matters. Philippe Marion/Getty Images.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Or consider leading accounting firms, such as KPMG, that are developing training programs for certified public accountants to better understand big data models and techniques.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8