Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.    It's funny and informative. Click Here.

Executive Coaching 141

Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 141

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. 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. Leadership.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. So are goals. Blah, blah, blah.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get any licenses required, pay sales taxes where appropriate Get everything in writing. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

Resistance 193

Resistance Class Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 193

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. So are goals.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Managers, consultants, and academics around the world have long wrestled with this question. But simultaneously managing today’s business while creating tomorrow’s goes beyond being ambidextrous. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2023

Since then, Magnuson has provided his leadership insights multiple times for my blog and in 2020, I named his book, Stand Out! , as the best new leadership and business book for that year. I started the Everyday Leadership blog 11 years ago. I guess you could say my leadership engine was all revved up.

Workshop 101

Workshop Consultative Books Webinar 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

firm, Qualcomm, developed the world’s most advanced technology for second-generation mobile telephony, but European firms had an advantage: a coherent pan-Continental IP strategy that included mandating technology sharing among European competitors and setting the pricing and licensing arrangements to ensure rapid adoption.

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Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

“Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineer by the State of Tennessee.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He also attended MIT, where he received 3 degrees: a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. Some weeks I don’t manage three times. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. For instance, at one U.S.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0 -based company is a nimble competitor in a high-stakes and highly-structured industry. For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

Report 124

Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. For example, Emotiv believes that most traditional licensing approaches will not suffice for its "mass-enablement strategy.".

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

LDRLB

AUGUST 15, 2012

They invest substantially in learning to manage a specific mode of growth—and then continue refining toward what they deem are best practices attained through experience with that mode. Company licensing team might not be able to see the value of a full acquisition.

CEO 131

CEO Licensing Retail Resources 131

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

Long-term 13

Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Apple and Google have innovation in their DNA; they have many years of success to build on; and they have earned the license to take some risks. But innovation is an elusive beast. But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Consider the Scandinavian media firm Schibsted, which engineered an impressive digital transformation through a philosophy of connectedness. But they couldn’t.

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