The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In The Happiness Advantage Shawn points out, “ as late as 1998, there was a 17-to-1 negative-to-positive ratio of research in the field of psychology. And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 28, 2019

It is the study of employment, the forces of productivity and the factors impacting gross domestic product (GDP). Further, consider that leaders have limited (if any) true impact on macro motivation but can have significant positive impact on all things micro. What’s selling? What isn’t?

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Motivation GDP Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. Leadership, if it’s anything, is about creating meaningful, positive change. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.” Based on what facts? According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S.

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Health Care Insurance Executive Coaching Blog 167

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. So how did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world (after the United States, China, and Japan), transform itself from sick man to economic superstar? With just 2.6 The country’s exports reached nearly $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Because most managers are simply unbearable. But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e.,

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Position : Man and machine will wage a Darwinian struggle that machines will win. Falling incomes will have grave consequences in places like the United States and Europe, where consumption accounts for 56% or 69% of GDP , respectively, requiring new social supports, such as a universal basic income. The Dystopians. The Utopians.

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GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. Governments were reducing spending in order to bring their debt levels under control. I am afraid the answer is no.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Given his former position, you would imagine that Georgiou’s crime would involve falsifying national economic data in order to cover up tax shenanigans or to fool the markets into thinking that the Greek economy was healthier than it was. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. Today, weather risk management is still in its early days.

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Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies that want to benefit from the positive development path of some markets will have to adjust their strategies accordingly.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Prahalad’s assertion that “Growing up in India is an extraordinary preparation for management” was wrong? One estimate pegged the annual income of the Indian diaspora at about one-third of India’s GDP, with much of that coming from Silicon Valley. Not necessarily. Global business Leadership Microsoft'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. But it still seems like it’s a much better position to be in than not having any productivity growth at all. The country’s fertility rate has fallen from 4.1

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions. It will incorporate some evolving training paradigms like MOOCs and online programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. trillion in private sector GDP. Leaders in this position need to shift from working in their company to working on their company. These things are functions of discipline, not size.

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Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. These new trends raise important questions for companies: Should firms change the positioning of their brands?

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Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

We look at this rating, and also investigate the extent to which people experience positive and negative affective states like enjoyment, stress, and worry in their day-to-day lives, as well as analyzing responses to more workplace-specific measures such as job satisfaction and employee engagement. GDP is masking deeper issues.

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Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress. The first is the pleasant life , which involves positive experiences including contentment, hope, and sensory enjoyment.

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Organization GDP Reference Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Ask these same managers after a launch whether they met their performance objectives, and too many will answer “not quite” or “not at all.” ” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. laura schneider FOR HBR.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Indicators like gross national income (GNI) and GDP go up. And on an individual level, recruiters and HR managers around the world report that job seekers with exceptional English compared to their country’s level earned 30-50% percent higher salaries.

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Globalization GDP Competitive Advantage Education 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. Throughout these letters, and other pronouncements, BlackRock has made clear that managing issues like climate change and diversity creates business value. ” It’s good news. .”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Attracting, retaining, and managing these highly skilled workers will require new ways of thinking about talent management and the role that external talent plays. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Here's the upshot of that: because TV executives are encouraged to manage to that measure, they achieve better performance on paper but worse—wait for it—in reality. It's a positive externality management has decided to measure and make known.

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Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth."

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Data from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Outside Europe, though, opinions are distinctly less positive. While they’re somewhat comfortable with innovation, European managers are worried about their overall competitiveness, which they feel is compromised by large, expensive and rigid social systems and labor markets, that are almost impossible to reform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The result was a strong positive linear relationship between connectedness and four key performance indicators: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, competitive industrial performance, and GDP per capita PPP (purchasing power parity).

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay. Imports underpin many dimensions of consumption and investment, so impacts are not concentrated or immediately visible.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. This equivalence is too cynical by half.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The only positive fallout has been a modest diversification of the local economy, with exports as a percentage of the province's GDP declining from as much as 85% in 2005 to a still-high 66% in 2010. Can Guangdong manage such a transition before its current manufacturing base is eroded? It's difficult to say.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. In a profession that prioritizes teaching and often thinks schools can’t, or shouldn’t, be managed. ” Finding More Architects.

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