RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. One of several fun ideas proposed by Lucid involves taking a picture of your shoes. Raise your leadership game. Like what you see?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.)

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Then, based on the insights drawn from this sample, the company would decide the reason for the recent losses and propose changing a feature to address that specific "pain." They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. I discovered that only one bank had a board member with some direct experience in technology and in that case it was as a sales executive. The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

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. The Four C’s include: Credibility – leadership begins with credibility.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. The idea that employees could contribute their own money to help kickstart a provocative proposal is organizational heresy.

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

Every aspect of traditional industries is affected by Internet tools and social networks, as I proposed in my e-G8 talk for the plenary session on digital reinvention. Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said that digital technologies would drive 5.5% The human side is critical to the use of technology.

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McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. You've likely seen reverse leadership in action. Reverse leadership doesn't replace regular leadership. Quite the contrary.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

In leadership writing, one of the most widely sold leadership textbooks ( The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner) concludes that love is “the secret to life” and consider it the “best kept secret” of great leadership. For that reason, it takes great courage to lead from love.

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Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

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., A needed a pproach.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Leadership is happy to ask that proposals and presentations be backed by “data.”

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Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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's Sergey Brin knows a multibillion investment opportunity when he sees one. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. Thanks for encouraging and challenging the leadership community. Leadership Freak, Dan Rockwell Mark Oakes Great post, Mike. Love what you do Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Despite its relatively small size (about 600 employees), EYP also supports in-house research projects proposed by employees, which are selected through a competitive process. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. How talent management is changing.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This is taken from The Intercollegiate Finance Journal (IFJ) is an undergraduate student-run journal about how current finance, economics, business and technology issues affect students'' lives. Please consider supporting the IFJ to ensure that our youth''s voices are heard and heeded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. A Brewing Situation for Grassroots Leadership through Social Power. Those people respond to money," says Rich Robinson, director of Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a private group that tracks donations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. They should expect and welcome constructive criticism.

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Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

Banking 11

Banking Globalization Finance Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Last year, American campuses produced fewer than 56,000 graduates with the sort of qualifications sought by information technology (IT) firms.” What Could Change?

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. But tech isn’t the only sector speaking out. CEOs from companies such as Goldman Sachs (e.g.,

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