Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Goals could include discovering the next great drug, having a large loving family, becoming a vice president, achieving financial security, having great friendships, finding a life partner, and yes, even becoming a CEO. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed. The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He had a goal. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers. And what does President Roger want to be when he grows up?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

I once spoke with an executive who said his goal was to "not have customers hate us." For example, one Middle Eastern telecom operator has begun to create the brand connection by extending extraordinary discounts from third party partners, such as theaters and car rental agencies. Silence detractors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. It isn’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. One of your goals is to develop your team’s capacity to give feedback and help people get used to articulating how they feel the team is doing.”

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Create short term goals. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? He also writes about improving business operations at www.squawkpoint.com. The next model found was Kotter’s 8 steps : Increase the urgency for change. Stay persistent.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

5) Operational Transparency -. Hirst, Giles; Van Knippenberg, Daan; Zhou, Jing; A cross-level perspective on employee creativity: Goal orientation, team learning behavior, and individual creativity, Academy of Management Journal, Vol 52(2), Apr 2009, 280-293. Transparency is organizational honesty. Stay tuned, comment and share!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. Their power stems from their ability to make people perform in the way in which the goals of their performance have been set. Their promised utility seems beyond doubt: they do reduce complexity.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. It isn’t enough to state goals once a year or once a quarter at a company meeting. Good teams can tear apart their successes to find those incremental improvements.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. There was no sense of a larger purpose or united goal. Groups didn ’ t connect. Qubein puts it this way: .

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” The key to successfully dealing with interrupters is to quash your frustration and instead “operate from a mindset of curiosity,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. Your goal is not necessarily to move through the meeting agenda as quickly as possible.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr. Profound influence. Cluelessness-Apathy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. Just click the button that says "Dreams," and you'll see information about the organization's goal for the year and its goal for the next five years. Did the charity have goals? Did the data have integrity?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. This led to the Mr. Rogers remix, “Garden of Your Mind,” which auto-tuned old clips so Mr. Rogers bursts into song.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The goal, of course, isn’t to put 21.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

In that case, after the Steelers scored their go-ahead touchdown, Roethlisberger would have recognized that Pittsburgh was still a field-goal short of matching the point spread of 7 points. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. It is time business learned a few things from football.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

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