Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

In fact, his inventions in three-phase electric power and alternating current eventually enabled the global distribution of electricity as we know it. 1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. ” Management Science 56.2

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The formula for success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation ( who trusts you ). In a world of connection and transparency , getting your "hows" right means making the shift from managing reputation to building it in everything you do.

Uncertainty 109

Uncertainty Reputation PR Human Capital 109

Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

information about work and jobs is relatively hard to come by for someone seeking employment,” says James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Acquaintances, in short, represent a source of social capital, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. . “We find that in the U.S.,

Tips 128

Tips Succession Social Capital McKinsey 128

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

Innovation 114

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

As a management consultant to over a hundred firms in the last thirty years, my team and I have worked with global companies such as Toyota, Suncor, Siemens, and FedEx, to name a few, to help them transform into new world companies – companies ready to take on the challenges of today’s global economy.

Company 50

Company Globalization Outsourcing Transportation 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. But where we've lost the plot is that we only demand — and manage — a return on financial capital.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. I could see he was motivated, and still eager to grow, so I pushed him to instead think about what larger global roles he could perform for his current employer. This is a key competence for global leaders. Challenge yourself just enough.

Positioning 12

Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Called simply "The Prosperity Index," it is the world's only global assessment of prosperity that integrates measures of both financial income and nonfinancial wellbeing—in all, reflecting 93 dimensions of performance. It is the first global index to measure countries based on both wealth and wellbeing.

GDP 10

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

We’re all time-deprived; it can be daunting to have to manage work, family, and the “spare” time we spend on the necessary evil we call networking. And that core group should be a lot smaller than you think. But networking doesn’t have to be so time-consuming.

How To 15

How To Entrepreneur Social Capital Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. When we look at global averages, we see that self-employment is generally associated with lower levels of happiness as compared to being a full-time employee.

Report 14

Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.”

Creativity 8

Creativity Storytelling Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. Global business' In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself. How do we stretch management timeframes and perspectives?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa? These conclusions were hasty.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But we’re a global company. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8