Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Training plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Focus on excellence. Business development.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Ron Edmondson

MAY 3, 2018

When the issue, however, has an undetermined solution, especially if the decision could alter the direction of the organization, impact other people or require a change in the organization’s finances, then the leader needs to learn to think strategically in the moment. How do we make fast decisions and still be strategic?

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Learning-by-Doing Maturity Finance Morale 35

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When the issue, however, has an undetermined solution, especially if the decision could alter the direction of the organization, impact other people or require a change in the organization’s finances, then the leader needs to learn to think strategically in the moment. How do we make strategic decisions quickly? Discipline Mouth.

Learning-by-Doing 30

Learning-by-Doing Maturity Edmondson Finance 30

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. How many employees are potentially affected?

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. We think this is a bad idea.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? Of the large markets, the U.S.,

Automotive 9

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

With savings from multiple fellowships in school (Thanks, Johns Hopkins), I started my business , and hired and trained people in Nigeria. giants like Altera Corp and Microchip on design services and training. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others.

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Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The Boeing Training & Flight Services division, a 1,500-employee group at The Boeing Company that serves 500 airline customers in over 90 countries, sought to accelerate growth by reorganizing around the customer. Not all CCOs have operationally structured configurations like Boeing's Training & Flight Services division.

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B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

At Opportunity International , where the focus is on providing loans, savings, insurance, and related training to clients in the world's poorest communities, our major donors like to see the work up close. Many others simply want a more visceral sense that their dollars are being spent effectively.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

companies like Clari forecasting client-by-client sales to help prioritize deals) and with coaching and training (Textio’s* predictive text-editing platform to help employees write more-effective documents). Next up will be finance, transportation, and agriculture because of the volume of data available and their sheer economic value.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

It is the mid-segment executives that were handling the finance, accounting, sales, and administrative jobs that are finding themselves left out in the cold with applications softwares taking over their careers. not employing mature workers because it’s assumed that they’ll soon retire.

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Resources Maturity Diversity Career 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The market for behavioral science is specialized and not yet mature, so your go-to consultancy may not have the expertise to advise you. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years?

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

From our earliest days in the classroom we are trained to focus on annunciation, vocabulary, presence, delivery, grammar, syntax and the like. So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? In other words, we are taught to focus on ourselves.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’m delivering a series of webinars and training solutions for Defy Gravity, plus a series of eBooks that will drill down into specific focus areas. These eBooks apply the lessons of Defy Gravity to specific business situations, for example, turn-arounds, small businesses and mature companies that have leveled off.

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Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Respondents emphasized that the skills required by a founder change as their venture matures. ” Finance is less important. Finance received the second lowest priority score of the 10 skills areas. ” However, a few respondents made a strong case for learning about finance. Several themes emerged.

Engineering 14

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 13

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. Veteran consultants who were trained for and have a track record in actual consulting. What is their maturity level? 32 percent). 16 percent). 2 percent).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 61

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

With maturity comes the quest to learn more, understand the factors and apply newly acquired insights to higher purposes. Learning, experiencing and evaluating is the best process to achieve lasting success. The best dues yield nuggets of wisdom that couldn’t have been earned any other way.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In too many cases, other countries are securing new industries by taking advantage of promising results from America’s federal research investments: maturing innovations that were seeded in U.S. SMMs can play crucial roles in innovation by engaging in partnerships with universities and other laboratories to help mature technologies.

Innovation 12

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 12

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

AUGUST 15, 2016

” In less mature economies and fragile regions of the world, entrepreneurs are just as, if not more, critical to livelihoods and development. Among the initial findings : more effective programs emphasize communication skills, networking, and organizational structure over developing finance and accounting skills.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Market maturity: Salespeople in mature markets focus on protecting business with existing customers, while salespeople in growing markets tend to focus on new customer acquisition. Propagate best practices through training and education. Unfortunately, that sort of consistency doesn’t happen.

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have seen those who have multiplied thousands of followers on social media, but a look at their LinkedIn profile reveals recommendations from people who won’t use their last name… And they offer no resource for their “coach” training, except for their work experience. Honesty is a big issue for me.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

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Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. This evolving model is being supported and encouraged by the local Israeli VCs.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. When I was going through basic training, my Drill Instructors were all seasoned, experienced, combat veterans.

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s a mature category that is still trying to figure itself out… Because it is so competitive, it really is about understanding who you are, what you stand for, and what you don’t.”. It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So

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