Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

While there will be a huge learning curve – and significant challenges – greater success and learning will come when the executive enters the assignment with a winning mindset, vs. a “good enough to get by” mindset. Help them learn to ask questions and listen. These are not educational sabbaticals.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Different operational skills. Doing so presents its own risks.

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

As politicians and economists puzzle over America's jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates coming through their doors. She thought the ideal applicant would be someone relatively young but with a few years of non-profit finance experience.

Finance 17

Finance Learning Curve Skills Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.).

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Here's how to get started. Let's say you're a newly appointed manager learning some finance for the first time, and you're trying to improve your recall of many new terms. Does this opportunity require learning new terms, concepts, or narratives? First, focus on the right unit of measure.

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Short-term Learning Curve Tools Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. High Costs, Learning Curves. Where will the pendulum swing next?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59