Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. The thankyou doesn’t cost the company anything and consider the benefits in productivity and loyalty! What keeps you from gifting your kindness? When I have been thanked in the past I am so ready to work harder.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2023

You should encourage feedback on your leadership, as well as the business as a whole. Prioritize Loyalty. You’ll have to prioritize customer loyalty to make this happen, and you can do this in more than a few ways, including: Sending out newsletters. Having the right leadership traits can help with this. Offering coupons.

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Succession Word of Mouth Marketing Talent Management Learning-by-Doing 156

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We believe that one of the ways managers can tap into this discretionary effort is the practice of service-based leadership. Greenleaf first introduced the concept of servant leadership to businesses in the mid-1900s. The two of us learned about this approach, branded as service-based leadership, in the United States Marine Corps.

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Leadership Loyalty Greenleaf Bottom-up 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). What’s your proactive marketing approach to loyalty?

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. CEOs generally don't want changes to how their sales force operates for fear of killing the golden goose. But cutting cost does not mean cutting revenue. Make sales a team sport.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Their loyalty and accountability belongs to top management. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2011

The y-axis focuses on how a professional is measured on meeting the organizational performance criteria that fuel the business engine. The x-axis centers on how the professional fares on meeting the expectations of the human engine. The other signature trait of Stalwarts is their deep loyalty to the organization.

Engineering 16

Engineering Career Motivation Follow-up 16

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2014

Clayton (Clay) Daniels is VP of Operations , Midwest Service & Solutions at Kansas City-based U.S. Engineering Company. Engineering in November 2013. Question : What primary leadership skills did you use as a Major in the US Army that you''ve transferred to your civilian business leadership role? Daniels : U.S.

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Engineering Servant Leader Learning-by-Doing Skills 55

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. Pleasers are hard-working, inspire loyalty, and tend to listen thoughtfully to their clients and colleagues. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” They realized they had to think beyond marketing as promoting an existing product.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 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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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. To achieve loyalty, most companies focus on managing their customer relationships. Relational capital.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

AT&T’s approach not only gives its people an opportunity that engenders loyalty, it also ensures the integrity and continuity of the institutional knowledge and informal networks that make companies run. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. How talent management is changing. It creates option value.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Women entrepreneurs, coders, social networkers and computer engineers alike can find particular pride and inspiration of these 5 women below. is known for her loyalty and kindness. This Internet entrepreneur and business executive is currently the Chief Operating Office at. confronting and abolishing the gender discrepancy.

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Chief Operating Officer Advice Entrepreneur Comparison 198

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. The product, called Rite-View, was based on ideas and technology Lavoie and the leadership of the company would never have put together (and would never have invested in) without Mutual Fun. The Newport, R.I.-based

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Most people think standard operating procedures are a strait jacket that limits their flexibility. The Cleveland Clinic cleverly uses standards to deliver operational consistency, reliability, and low cost. Another example at Cleveland Clinic is in search engine marketing. Customers Health Operations'

Operations 8

Operations Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Wiersema 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

Creativity 8

Creativity Trends Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally. Just as brands differ, there is no single right culture.

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Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This is data that comes through search engines, social media platforms, loyalty points and other digital transactions, such as dynamic cookies. Now the rise of digital technologies has added a third construct: data equity. But as Lanier rightfully questioned — who ultimately owns this data? Empowering Digital Societies.

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Content Niche Marketing Discount Travel 8