Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

The article reports that in a study conducted earlier this year by the insurer, Lloyds, the crew of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico had significant and ongoing concerns about the safety of the rig. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come.

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Executive Coaching Open-book Blog Report 167

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. And the insurance company will pay for the procedure. Over the last 20 years, I have found the best way to do this is to assemble the key stakeholders of a process in a multi-day workshop.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games." Risk mitigation is now integrated into decision-making and operations, and no longer treated as just an input into the calculation of insurance premiums.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. The result?

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

HMSHost will be launching workshops on engagement across the entire company. She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy. Offer professional-development opportunities.

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We sat down with small groups of employees across functions and talked about everything — including leadership, operations, compensation, benefits, and staffing. What values drove them?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

And they want to be rewarded for saving, or for looking ahead far enough to buy life insurance. That, clearly, makes insurance a tough sell. Indeed, in a three-year survey of Millennials conducted by Scratch/Viacom, 71% said they’d rather go to the dentist than listen to anything a banker had to say. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. Using these principles Intuit began driving design thinking deep into its culture and operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, a rural branch might offer a faster development path, as every employee tends to wear multiple hats in its operation, but that fact might be lost if a husband's work is in an urban setting, and the woman's work is an afterthought in their decision of where to live.

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Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

.’’ For instance, the company’s “frat-like” culture became too dysfunctional to run a tight operation in a highly regulated industry, and some of the measures taken to certify new employees in health insurance law became severely compromised.

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Document Business Model Execution Company 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

They created a feeling that no matter how demanding or volatile other aspects of their lives were, things were at least operating as they should within the domestic world in which they had some measure of control. The geo-tracking data that came with it enabled our client to identify the specific property in need of some fast upgrades.

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