Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. An entrepreneur is always looking for a new opportunity. New skills will be needed.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Each woman charted her own path to the top; they traveled through a variety of industries: energy, life insurance, technology, retail, and food service. Can’t resist my favorite female quote by Margaret Thatcher , former Prime Minister of Great Britain in her People magazine interview, “If you want anything said, ask a man.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Why do many business leaders resist it? -Daniel Kahneman. ” -Stefan Thomke. .

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. You need the clarity and fearlessness of an entrepreneur to ensure you don’t fall into a trap, like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Those that do look to leverage new technologies run into financial issues. Foreign-made farm technologies remain unappealing to farmers in Africa because they are cumbersome for those who control, on average, 1.6 African entrepreneurs are now interested in how farmers work and how they can help improve yields.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my picks for the week of October 25th - 31th, 2010.  Enjoy! Michael Haberman, HR Observations : "Hire Attitude vs.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. link] Taariq Lewis Hi Mike: As always, a great blog.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

I learned this as both a sales person and an entrepreneur. When I started up my tech company in London in the 80s I realized the problem: as a buyer, my direct needs were often superseded by the social, political, organizational, and relational considerations I had to manage. What’s the Role of Change Management?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Ask Atma

MAY 13, 2012

Remarkable teams – the Hallmark of Management 3.0. Remarkable teams are a product of culture and change management. What remarkable teams look like – part two: change management. Fixing a less than ideal culture is known as change management. As you know, humans tend to resist change. 3, 541–557.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The leaders range from entrepreneurs with great ideas but a flaw preventing expansion (Tesla?) Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. They are practical as well as visionary.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook as a busy entrepreneur. ” He is an entrepreneur, consultant, and public speaker. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders. Michael Hyatt. And the rewards are big.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I've offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman ; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. A simple tip for a manager is to stand while you're at your desk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. As a former M&A attorney, former Google executive, and a serial entrepreneur, I have experienced M&A from every point of view. Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Instead, B2B entrepreneurs should focus their efforts on small businesses. The pattern continues today with start-ups that are in the early phases of this journey: Expensify is in the process of disrupting administrative assistants and office managers with an app-based expense reporting product. That’s short-sighted.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

I work with executives and entrepreneurs. I work with social entrepreneurs and professional service folks, and I’m really all about having you amplify your impact in the world. I had a non-profit that I started to grow to multiple cities, and then we started the first venture conference for women entrepreneurs called SpringBoard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Expanded access to microloans did lead some entrepreneurs to increase business investments , but rarely to increased profits. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future. Digital financial services let people help each other.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

These are just some of the actual “life-automating” techniques of busy entrepreneurs today. Sethi was on a panel called “ Life Automation for Entrepreneurs ” that also included podcaster Veronica Belmont , a Getting Things Done devotee. Managing yourself Time management Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. ” Metric obsession. In the sense that results count, and their quantification is desirable, it seems irrefutable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This different story about the computer industry softened resistance to cutting back on hardware (and eventually selling the PC business) and provided the underpinnings for a shift to services, data analytics, and the smarter planet brand campaign. Individuals can also change the public narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The opportunity revolved around technology transf er — the challenge of taking a novel technology and successfully transplanting it to other companies or industries. If perceived risks can be managed and early costs kept cheap, most organizations are open to the possibilities and potential of emerging technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

We’re also facing a new and perilous generation of drug-resistant pathogens. and the global community can manage them. Amid this uncertainty, there are great rewards to be reaped by innovators and entrepreneurs who recognize the challenges of robust bio and pandemic defense as a unique market opportunity. Private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This different story about the computer industry softened resistance to cutting back on hardware (and eventually selling the PC business) and provided the underpinnings for a shift to services, data analytics, and the smarter planet brand campaign. Individuals can also change the public narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Why can't a marketing manager remember where she took a client for dinner last night? In fact, we found that over 40% of young business leaders ranked mobile as the most important technology to business in the twenty-first century (cloud computing came in second at 13%). As one young entrepreneur remarked, "It's gotten so ridiculous.I

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

For some insight into these questions, I gathered a sample of personal experiments from entrepreneurs and employees who’ve made an intentional effort at impulse control by using the Pomodoro Technique. Managing yourself Motivation Personal effectiveness' For the uninitiated, Pomodoro is a variation on batch processing.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2021

Expanding your business can be a daunting time as a small business owner or entrepreneur but at the same time, it can also be very exciting. Noone can resist a discount! For example, if you’re a smart home technology distributor , you could approach events organisers with the intent of letting them use your technology at their events.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. But just then, the CEO interrupted and asked the product managers in the back row of seats, "What are the weaknesses with this roadmap?". A rebel resists conformity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” ” But that notion is outdated.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition. Although fiercely independent, these entrepreneurs struggled with back-end administrative tasks.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

The new composites have higher insulation properties, are more resistant to the elements and, after substantial R&D, can cost much less to manufacture than conventional building materials. It collaborated with Luis Krug , a Spanish Internet entrepreneur and now the CEO of Pixmania , to build an e-commerce platform Comandia.com.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders. Sharing economy entrepreneur, Shelby Clark, Founder of car-sharing service RelayRides, suggested the idea of metrics-based regulations. Government Technology'

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