Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

Marketing 113

Marketing Productivity Products Ethics 113

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. .

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Long-term Crisis Mentor 69

Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

My boyfriend Brian and I were backpacking in Washington State when he proposed. The engagement caught me off guard, but I didn’t know then just how many more surprises that proposal would lead to--in my professional life. This is a wonderful story, with lessons for all of us! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Marcie Muehlke.

Supply Chain 159

Supply Chain Fashion Proposal Learning Curve 159

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Advocacy by John Daly provides actionable methods to effectively market ideas such that they are acted upon by the organization. Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. by John Daly. About the Reference.

Resources 50

Resources Proposal Competitive Advantage Politics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. This is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you can apply internal pressure to senior management where your product will be used.

Proposal 58

Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 11

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.

Press Release 182

Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Most of the times people won’t mind or won’t care….but

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing. Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. This gives managers an informational advantage over the investing public which could be abused by unethical actors.

Ethics 13

Ethics Report System Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Management is about commitment, execution, and follow-through. A major fraud, for example, can begin as a minor shortfall that a fund manager or auditor decides (or is convinced) to hide. I rationalized that I’d only be rearranging market shares, I wouldn’t be expanding the market. Did you act? Did it work?

Tavris 8

Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The New York Times exposed the international retail giant's history of bribing Mexican government officials in order to dominate that market. Facilitation payments" and other "costs of doing business" in various markets can no longer be condoned. Wal-Mart's upper management echelon balked despite her recommendation.

Execution 12

Execution Retail Report Policies 12

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. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society keeps an active list of laws proposed, passed, and defeated across the U.S.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. Negative results are usually not published at all.

Business Model 15

Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

For the other broad context, we have to go to the undeniable success of pro-market reforms introduced during the Thatcher-Reagan years, and "underwritten" by economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. The young men and women robbing stores are not, as some believe, an example of the failure of liberal market reforms.

Politics 13

Politics Proposal System Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. According to management expert Leigh Thompson, collaboration that is conscious, planned, and focused on generating new ideas builds excitement and produces what she calls a "creative conspiracy."

Books 8

Books Creativity Cooper Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Still, 90% of the time he managed to identify individuals in the dataset using the date and location of just four of their transactions. ” (PDF) proposed by Paul M. De Montjoye and colleagues examined three months of credit card transactions for 1.1 million people, all of which had been scrubbed of any PII.

Proposal 8

Proposal Policies Information Technology Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Outsider status and independence were also particularly powerful forces in board dynamics, helping to open up close ties and expand and rearrange social bonds between directors, the CEO, and high-level management. More effective risk mitigation and crisis management, and a better balance between risk-welcoming and risk aversion behavior.

Osgood 8

Osgood ROE Diversity Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

One of the responsibilities of corporate managers is to keep this truth front and center. And I would propose that this social purpose is best encapsulated as "stewardship." Editor's note: The author — or, more to the point, his company's lawyers — would really like you to know that RBC Wealth Management - U.S.

Mission Statement 11

Mission Statement Video Proposal Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As one former digital agency executive told me after watching Microsoft’s event, “If I were managing a brand, I’d head right to my digital agency and say, ‘What is our plan for holograms?’” On the one hand it was proposing a future where we would have ubiquitous computing on the go.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. “It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Just as medical science has broken down patients’ clinical needs and created corresponding specialties, we propose a framework for major types of patient suffering so that health care providers can organize themselves to address suffering more effectively.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). (8.5

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. national security experts to assess a hostage-rescue strategy and evaluate what “another national security expert” proposed.

Participative 11

Participative Cost Strategy Ethics 11

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The most recent politician to make such a proposal is U.S. And French President Emmanuel Macron, after months of confrontation with labor unions on his labor market reform, is considering changes to the corporate governance to, among other issues, strengthen workers’ participation to company boards. Leigh Wells/Getty Images.

Participative 8

Participative Crisis Consensus Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Until a few years ago corporate managers heard only two complaints from institutional investors: that executive pay was excessive and that the company had an insufficient number of independent directors. In fact, research has shown that the majority of shareholder proposals in the U.S. We propose the same for companies.

Proposal 8

Proposal Objective Ethics Politics 8