Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Much has been written about long-term expatriate assignments , but for many of us, a more common “assignment” is the short-term business trip — that four-day jaunt to Dubai or the there-and-back trip to Buenos Aires. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence. It must experiment and innovate.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

They suggest this might in part be because digital skills have been so important in effectively responding to the crisis in the short-term, and will be so important in transforming businesses to respond to the aftermath of the crisis in the longer-term. ” Skills for the post-Covid world. . Uneven spread.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. As I travel the world, leading what we call our tribe , I also am invited to give speeches and advise our customers and partners. It will lose the license to operate from key stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

But, at the same time, what most people learn the hard way is that it is not a short drive in the beautiful countryside. The Future Picture represents time travel allowing you to determine how the objective will be on your arrival to it later. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. The strongest leaders are in fact the most compassionate leaders. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement. Connecting the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. How can you possibly be expected to grow an organization if you’re not growing yourself?

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Lastly, I do not forget to take care of myself by exercising and traveling. This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. What is that!?” I could breathe.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. military base. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, a team at a large financial services firm in her study displayed medium-high physical distance, low-medium operational distance, but high affinity distance, indicating potential issues there. Many companies have slashed their travel budgets, especially given the current economic downturn. What's the cost of such failures?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. For some tasks, it is desirable or necessary to have common rules across the operating units: policies, standards, methods, procedures, or systems. ” But which exactly are “only those tasks”?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. Industrial giants have well-established brands, built strong customer relationships, and signed long-term service contracts. For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

At a reception for JetBlue’s most frequent Mosaic flyers, I had the opportunity to listen to the airline’s top management discuss its ambitions to improve operations and enhance customer experience. In other words, Hointer is figuratively — if not literally — training its customers to shop on their own terms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” The term “network” is often misconstrued.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s your job to pour what you know into the project and travel with the team: think of it as an equal partnership. The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. You, on the other hand, are in for the long haul.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. ” Senior executive presence and travel across sites is an important part of integrating teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. job growth and economic security.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. The site''s early ambitions were modest — provide a website for cash-strapped out-of-towners to find cheap places to crash, a form of budget travel known as couch-surfing.

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Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

When most people use the term customer experience , they mean things like being easy to work with, convenient, hassle-free, taking little of the customer's time, and so forth. And while each one can help companies focus better on their customers' wants and needs, they fall far short of the true power of the value that experiences can create.

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Banking Short-term Sports Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. .” In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

In January 1764, Hasenclever’s cousin traveled to Germany, where he secretly recruited miners, masons, ironmakers, and forgemen in the face of a ban on emigration of skilled workers. But while Hasenclever took a long-term view of the colonies’ promise as a home for industry, his investors tired of his endless expansion plans.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ).

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