Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. Even during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, essential transportation services remained operational, highlighting the industry’s resilience.

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Transportation Career Airlines Industry 78

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship made a comeback, albeit in measured bites. Innovators drive the marketplace, followers are the passengers and those who refuse to abolish redundancy are roadkill.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. Focus group discussions with a diverse group of employees can also provide a deeper understanding of the organization’s training requirements.

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? EA says that would stifle innovation. But if you work in one of his companies, you won’t operate entrepreneurially. Explore companies that promote diversity. There’s a link.

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CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Previous research has explored whether people become more tolerant of diversity when they’re more exposed to different races and nationalities, with the findings mixed, with some suggesting that indeed does occur, whilst others suggesting people feel threatened and therefore resist increases in migration. Diverse teams.

Travel 66

Travel Diversity Politics Education 66

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

As he spins his story of adventure and liberation, the caged rabbits resist with concerns for their security. They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Champion Diversity. Leadership as a Force.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 7, 2014

Make you an innovative leader in your marketplace. has your company spread itself thin with too many organizational changes, initiatives or diverse priorities? Are there competitors driving price resistance? There is one question though, above all others, that smart leaders ask … not just once, but everyday. The truth is ….

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Price Strategy Goal Environment 113

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The innovation would boost efficiency by taking the excess inventory of one business unit and shipping it to units that had deficits, thereby reducing inventory-carrying costs companywide. The Politics of Innovation. We often forget, however, that meaningful innovation efforts can have a disruptive side.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Parkland has operated like an ACO since establishing its community-based primary care clinic in 1989 — out of necessity. We still operate that way today. Ability to resist reimbursement pressures. Population-driven innovation. A mission-driven payer mix. Unfazed by this kind of pressure, we simply declined.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. There was lots of resistance. people already had that experience.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

Company 14

Company Agility Innovation Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

People resist and become anxious. “Resistance to our plans would surface.” ” In fact, psychology and experience tells us, the reverse is true: A lack of genuine, reciprocal interaction and the feeling of imposed change increases employees’ anxiety and resistance. It reduces diverse contribution.

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Execution Strategy Webinar Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. He was also innovative. Today, we must learn how to shape networks around a shared purpose.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The vision outlines the essential principles that will guide the company’s detailed strategic planning, organizational design, operational priorities, and performance goals. The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%. from 2012 to 2014.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Ensure that teams are more diverse. Resist the urge to escalate problems to senior management.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. An increasing number of mission-driven, innovative professionals are finding they can't resist this opportunity. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 9

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 9

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” Furthermore, the evidence suggests that diversity will actually improve the quality of the strategy.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Any conglomerate executives who resisted would soon feel the pressure from activist investors eager to create value.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate?

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Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Many articles dissect the keys to successful operations and projecting future growth levers in China. Constructive criticism and coaching is not without resistance. 4) Your innovative proprietary product with 40 patents and unique benefits is replicated in three months by a local company.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Brand Long-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The four-story glass building designed by Norman Foster seamlessly integrates a long and diverse list of technical achievements — from the enormous solar panel array on the roof to hidden cable management mechanisms at the workstations — all according to Jobs’s uncompromising design standards. Peter’s Square in Rome.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Work and workers (yes, humans) will always be essential to organizations, but organizations themselves will be more diverse, and work will be organized, structured, and done in new ways, increasingly through arrangements outside of regular full-time employment. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Innovation in Cities. — that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. The threat : Autonomous driving will rely on a digital information backbone to operate. Insight Center. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas. System Meltdown.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8