Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. What Is a Leadership Awakener? A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. Robert Frost.

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P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

My acronym for BUSINESS : B ig-picture U nderstanding S ymbiosis I n N omenclature, E conomics, S ystems, and S ervices WORK : W indows of O pportunity, R equiring K now-how My acronym for GOALS : G etting O rganized A llowing L ifeblood S ystems G rowth O pportunities A nd L egacy S upport THINK : T o H ave I deas, N ew K eys FAILURE : F inding A (..)

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Stephen R. 6) Synergise.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Kotter and Dan S.

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P&L Kotter Books Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., Valuing and internalizing the externalities: Puma Calculates its Environmental P&L. business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

The first is to get various functional silos and P&L centers sharply aligned with the specifics of customer requirements. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Execution Leadership Strategy' Achieving speed and customer centricity depends on a crucial ingredient that''s often missing: integration.

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P&L Decentralization COO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Is having 80% women in HR and support functions and 80% of men in operational roles what you are after? Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted.

Diversity 8

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. It takes extraordinary leadership to navigate the complexities of global supply chains, industry ecosystems, and labyrinthine regulation.

P&L 8

P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8