The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 6, 2020

Get this group of three to six together in a similar fashion to the large group. Which one of the three “WHY” results will serve you best in your next learning proposal? The post Five Proven Paths to Training Pull-Through appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. Cambridge, MA: Perseus; 2001.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. What if you are in middle management and the top management isn’t fully there.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

There are many cases revealing the value and power of design thinking in the corporate world that have been widely published but are primarily focused on teams—especially managers collaborating with designers. The sample vignettes below, however, show how individuals apply design thinking to a very broad range of problems at varying scales.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Company Management Objective Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Managers who seek and give advice effectively are also likely to wield soft power, our research shows. she had a sense that her peer needed to do a better job managing his team (and his own insecurity) rather than move or fire the problematic direct report. So tread carefully. What was at stake for the peer?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. Our proposal differs from the current reporting practice in one subtle respect. Because investors consider these non-GAAP numbers to be value-relevant, we propose a more direct way for them to be calculated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

However, becoming a published author requires thinking about getting an agent and a publisher, writing a proposal, working with an editor, and developing a plan for promoting the book after it’s published. To achieve a large-scale goal for the first time, it is best to work your way up through more-manageable projects.

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Goal Dunning Project Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

For example: [Their name], Thanks for your patience while I reviewed this proposal. We’ve published a lot on cybersecurity lately, and unfortunately the proposed piece overlaps a bit too much with other articles we’ve published. Thanks again for taking the time to put this proposal together for us. Offer hope.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

At 22, I was lonely, living in a new city, and handling the transition from college to the real world in a reluctant fashion. While many managers and employees would probably say the power dynamics of a prison and a workplace are completely different, I have seen enough of both worlds to disagree. Power is power, wherever you are.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Now is the time for companies, communities, and governments to proactively add resources to the core computing infrastructure and test it for vulnerability in a systematic fashion. This proposal is not so far out of reach. Internet IT management Risk management' Linux, Apache, Perl) to create software solutions.

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Software Cooper System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

In January, fashion retailer H&M came under fire for an advertisement featuring a young black boy in a green hoodie bearing the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” Today, many requests for proposals (RFPs) require organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness of their diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Surveying hundreds of managers and their employees to learn more about the relationship between leadership self-awareness and employee attitudes like commitment, leadership effectiveness, and job satisfaction. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images.

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Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

In other words, a product’s strategic value comprises the reasons and arguments that buyers provide to senior management and others in the company about why they should purchase a product. Buyers amass information that helps them justify their strategic decisions. Tolerance for risk fluctuates by function and by industry.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Health Care Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g.,

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). However, they are difficult for organizations to propose, prioritize, and fund. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Chaos — and the broader catch-all, complexity — became an enormously fashionable economic topic for a few years.The physicist-founded Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico was the center of this work. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. In recent years J.

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

Young hothead that I was, I blamed everyone but myself, including the audience: “The average manager up here can’t even understand a pie chart!”. Now tell the story of the data in a powerful, animated fashion. None of what I’ve proposed here is particularly difficult in practice, once you have an important insight or result to share.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

Indeed, countless solo entrepreneurs have chosen to manage their business themselves, under the wrong assumption that the most difficult part of the business strategy is to build the puzzles. Failure to propose more private sessions can affect your audience differentiation. Your gift is part of the impression.

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Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

aspiring fashion designers on the show face challenges and someone is eliminated each week until the winner is crowned. We described the challenge before them: continue to provide current (or improved) service levels, support all new health-reform-related initiatives, and propose budget cuts. Change management'

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Tips Health Care Budgeting CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? Your new manager likely has a lot on her plate, so take responsibility for establishing a great working relationship from the start. But it was so sensitive to me, so emotionally intelligent to me as the new manager.”

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How To Chief Technology Officer Case Study Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In typical careful IBM fashion, they began by measuring employee communication, so they could estimate how many messages would be sent on the new system. Perhaps the biggest concern generated by this proposal is the fear that there are some situations that really do seem to require the asynchrony provided by email.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The business model – where peers can offer and purchase goods and services from each other through an online platform – continues to be applied to new industries from car sharing to peer-to-peer fashion, among many others. There’s no reason firms themselves cannot find the best rules out there and propose them to the Mayor’s office.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Thanks to my meditation practice, I was able to keep my composure and propose solutions to reduce the impact of the market crash.” Jonathan Tang, founder and CEO of VASTRM fashion, first introduced meditation to his staff after 9/11. The trading desk was an organized riot. ” You and Your Team. Mindfulness.

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. It’s uncomfortable terrain for many strategists. But was that so?

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Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

Ideal for an RFP, follow-up to an interview, or a special thanks to team members, old-fashioned notes still have a place in business. But if email really is the best option… at least make it more manageable, by forcing yourself to remember to: Manage your recipients. Can you review this new proposal before tomorrow at 3pm?”

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Bottom-up Conference Competitive Advantage Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Yet, the recent fall of Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO , underscores a basic truth: Independent boards of directors are still the best mechanism — or the least worst one — for holding business leaders accountable, even if many boards have failed in their attempts to do this, often in spectacular fashion.

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Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“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. Sign up for a new cross-company initiative or propose taking something off your boss’s plate,” suggests Dillon.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Traditional charities use a variety of methods to raise funds from several sources such as writing grant proposals to governments, trusts, and foundations; holding fund-raising galas for wealthy influential people and corporations; directly soliciting via mail and telemarketing; and operating charity shops.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board. In addition to being a senior manager at the company, she''s the CEO''s spouse.

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Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As part of our research for our book, Stop Spending, Start Managing , we asked 83 executives how much they estimated that their companies wasted on relentless analytics on a daily basis. The problem isn’t lack of data inside the garbage can; the vast amount of data means managers struggle to prioritize what’s important.

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How To Brainstorming Fashion Workshop 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

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Innovation Power Fashion Travel 13

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I believe mediocrity occurs far too often because too many people in business, particularly those in middle-management roles, are far too cautious, pessimistic, and more concerned about protecting their jobs rather than striving for greatness and being everything they could be. Dale has distilled the punk rock movement to eight elements.

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