Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. This provided porters a way to support their families, their own rebuilding efforts, and their local economies.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. This provided porters a way to support their families, their own rebuilding efforts, and their local economies.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 10, 2021

” This is a critical problem that’s burning out managers and team members. We’ll look at leading change versus being changed, four strategic planning traps and how to avoid them, how truly strategic leadership teams rock, and how to boost strategic retreat effectiveness.

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Team Strategic Planning Porter Leadership 69

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

How do I lead my employees and serve them at the same time? Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. How can we help the company reach the bottom line? And still others may say a leader must know how to inspire their employees. Would you like to meet my team? Ron Friedman, Ph.D. –

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. Each new book finds just the right question, the point of intersection between the timeless issue — performance — and the timely challenge managers are grappling with today. You have to make good choices.

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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

HarvardBiz: How to Get Involved Without Micromanaging People. Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? ohau8622: Tired of Being Middle Management? Here are 10 key questions to ensure effective meetings. mwbuckingham: The first 1/4 of the year is over. Try Being a Middle Leader.

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Mintzberg Porter Micromanagement Middle Management 217

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. ” — Michael Porter I am pleased that A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Whereas in the [.].

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Charan Rogers Review Porter 75

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2016

has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500… Read More Alan Weiss on “How to forge your own path to success”: An interview by Bob Morris. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc.,

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Succession Consultative How To Porter 79

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights. Showing you how you can shift your perspective. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Then delving into questions like, how should your business model evolve in light of a changing environment?

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. They had no clue how to fight. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Having watched the previews, Pixels looked hilarious.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

In my role as a leadership coach, I consistently hear my clients say that they crave negative feedback from their managers in order to improve in their jobs, grow their careers, and achieve better business results. How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work. That’s how we improve.” You and Your Team Series.

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Management How To Porter Commitment 11

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“In reading the book, I’m struck that the author spends time focusing on HOW to achieve maximum benefit from each of the six interdependent Disciplines, and not just providing a laundry list without explanation.” “Instead, this is meant to read more as a how-to manual. ” (Bob Schuneman, Small Biz Matters).

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.

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Handbook Strategy Review Books 80

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. How to Stress-Test Your Strategy. Always take credit for the work your team did.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space could be reduced by a factor of a hundred,” Musk explains on the SpaceX website. Everyone at SpaceX knows their company exists to make space radically more accessible. ” Actively lead operationalization.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. Again, Porter’s models frequently help in getting a perspective clearer.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates. Women of color are asked to do more low-promotability projects, and we talk with inclusion strategist Ruchika Tulshyan about how they can say no. ” Here’s How They Can Say No. Could you take notes? Kolb and Jessica L.

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P&L Porter Download Career 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I also had to learn how to drive on the left side of the road. The hard part was unlearning how to drive on the right. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. You and Your Team Series.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

We put a call out to some of our favorite management thinkers and asked what challenges they were going to take on next — and what an inspiring set of projects it yielded. The first, we will admit, is a self-inflicted pattern: Several of our thinkers are setting their sights on aspects of managing people.

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Schein Porter Project Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. People leadership.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Here are some recent posts that may be of interest to you: REVIEWS How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson INTERVIEWS Maria K. Mitchell (Amdec) in “The Corner Office” Interview conducted by Adam Bryant New York Times Thomas M. Sterner, Part 2: An interview by [.].

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Henderson Blog Review Strategy 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

The root problem from Christensen's perspective is that "they didn't keep the purpose of their lives front and center as they decided how to spend their time, talents, and energy." A steady stream of incremental decisions without a clear focus on purpose too often led to unanticipated outcomes.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Gary Keller with Jay Papasan The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren Buffett; Edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham Judgment On the [.].

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Blog Review Books Rivkin 85

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A key value driver (KVD) is any variable that drives value for shareholders. But few firms can identify their KVDs and thus use them for forecasting and improvement. Identifying your KVDs requires a deep understanding of your business and much trial and error. Often, value drivers are combinations of variables.

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Short-term Long-term Porter How To 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Fred Reichheld explained how to increase customer loyalty the way that Apple does. The Trouble with Salespeople.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It. Words can spearhead social transformation.

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Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8