Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the 1940’s there was a beautiful actress, Hedy Lamarr (think Angelina Jolie ), who along with composer George Antheil received a patent for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful to submarines in World War II. Did you know that Catherine Litchfield Greene invented the cotton gin?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ask a colleague, friend, coach or mentor to hold you accountable this year and help you stay on track with your own personal navigation system. Here’s my suggestion: find a “GPS Buddy”. A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Catch up here.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

Marcelia Muehlke one of the great young entrepreneurs I get to hang out with. It has been a year since that first trip and I am still learning just how challenging, complex and rewarding it is to develop an ethical supply chain Figure 2 (Figure 2). This is a wonderful story, with lessons for all of us!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Actually, a Community Marketing strategy helps define the business purpose and elevates the concept. Figure 1: The Community Marketing Strategy The relational diagram involves the entire spectrum of people. Relational Leadership is people-centric.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Wendy Enelow "Recognized for 20+ years of success in linking science-based achievements with decisive market leadership to build high-performance organizations with significant financial rewards. You sing it, Charlie.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! And the Clients Went Wild!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. That idea is a useful reminder that if we are not thinking about the end result of the system taken as a whole we risk optimizing component to the detriment of the whole.” The Lead Change Group would also like to thank Eat That Frog!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. ” Kaplan, a longtime Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, flatly dismisses efforts to humanize or “managerialize” smart machines as “excessive and gratuitous anthropomorphism.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. Unlike entrepreneurs working out of the proverbial garage, you can draw on your company’s resources to get things done. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. Even without a specific need for expansive networks, building contact can be an example of employee professional goals because it allows you to build a reputation for yourself while also building a support system.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. Given the pace of change, complexity of business, ever-shifting markets, and escalating expectations (just to name a few), the only sustainable advantage an organization has is its people.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Making the information so public makes it harder to game the system and easier to comply with the plan. For instance, asks entrepreneur and author Alistair Croll , "Are we ready to get a text telling us to get off the bus and walk home to get our daily quota of steps? But that's the point. But how far are we willing to go?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

It reviews the Addictive System, the company way and the organization as an addict. Addictive organizations are predicated upon maintaining a closed system. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The addictive system views everything as ‘the company way.’ Techpitfalls.com.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Making the information so public makes it harder to game the system and easier to comply with the plan. For instance, asks entrepreneur and author Alistair Croll , "Are we ready to get a text telling us to get off the bus and walk home to get our daily quota of steps? But that's the point. But how far are we willing to go?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Since many are small business people, solo practitioners, sales force members and entrepreneurs, they make great sacrifices to network… usually much more than the payoff. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. The system allows them to continue, without accountability or the stimulation to try harder.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Here are six of note.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. The Time Frame. Work to get those right, too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Since the publication of my HBR article on wearables , I’ve been asked a number of follow-up questions from executives, tech analysts, and most especially from entrepreneurs. Aren’t Head-up Displays (HUDs) like Google Glass where the market is going?”. Though the questions vary, they generally fall into three buckets. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Twin Debates.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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