In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2016

So, when you have a group that large in America, that are bigger than countries, what they value moves the market, it changes the way we train employees, and look at the political situation. These women are living the feminist goals. Going to books, I’d have to recommend them reading Marketing To The Millenial Woman.

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Conference Leadership Discount Insurance 120

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. So are goals. Here is the elementary answer. Ever heard this?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. They do commit to engage with other people who share their experience.

Leadership Development 322

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, “How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.”

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Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.". Here are three phrases that might help.".

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks. We clarify goals.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Energy levels are also affected. Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Where are the markets with opportunities?

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. At the time, those charged with achieving the goal had questions as to whether it could be done.

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Wilde Armstrong Project Technology 13

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. The market will decide that.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Of course, fighting the future is never a stated goal. In our experience, embracing the future as you scale requires solving what we call the Engine 1 vs. Engine 2 problem. Engine 1 is your core business, the engine that got you here. Both Engine 1 and Engine 2 need care and attention, but not in equal measure.

Engineering 8

Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Learn all you can. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen. the goals are aligned. Why is that?

Brand 14

Brand Energy Price Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Getting people to work together isn’t easy, and unfortunately many leaders skip over the basics of team building in a rush to start achieving goals. How do you form group norms, establish clear goals, and create an environment where everyone feels comfortable and motivated to contribute? Set or clarify goals.

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Team Case Study Goal Project 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

Mulally also drove Ford's engineers to define Ford’s “DNA,” as Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s global product chief, called it—the “genome that was designed to and engineered to convey quality, innovation, and style.” All of these efforts worked to transform Ford -- the company was restored to profitability and the brand, to preeminence.

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Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Sounds simple, but answering this question for both performance and health means setting an aspiration at the intersection of where market opportunities exist, what capabilities your company has, and where you and your employees are passionate about making a difference. 1) Where do we want to go? How do we keep moving forward?

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Self-aware 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 Alternative energy technologies have become big business. Over the past six months, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, and China have all announced dramatic investments in renewable sources of energy.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

None of these have defined revenue or profit goals, because their purpose is to explore new opportunities that can’t be quantified. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems. Typically when firms are evaluating investments they look for large addressable markets.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

It means the level of emotional investment employees make in the work goals they assume or are assigned. But each member of this team, no doubt with more on their plates then each thought reasonable, had one goal: to sound passionate and committed but to exit the meeting with no decisions made that would result in any more to do’s.”.

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Hotels Morale Commitment CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Tara Moore/Getty Images. The United Nations reports that the world population is expected to grow from 7.6 billion to 9.8

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

It could be that your home life is taking up more of your energy than usual. Burnout — the mental and physical exhaustion you experience when the demands of your work consistently exceed the amount of energy you have available — has been called the epidemic of the modern workplace. Or maybe you’re just bored.

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Motivation How To Long-term Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. The goal was to help one another get smarter, while collectively providing superior solutions for Pfizer.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 8