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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

Bureaucracy

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

How To

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

How To

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Value is in the products and services themselves.

Intellectual Capital

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Meaningfully defining EvD will help ensure that corporate accounting and risk management standards take into account present day realities.

Intangible Assets

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth. Hewlett and Packard set out to create high-quality electronic equipment that was more accurate and precise and less expensive than competing products.

Software

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Most Organizations Still Fear Social Media

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

We collaborate daily, sometimes productively, sometimes not. Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance.

Media

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CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Customer Loyalty

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. Whereas we’ve been growing our manufacturing sector since the ’60s in terms of product volumes and dollar output, manufacturing employment hasn’t grown at all. Yes, we have competitors eager to – how do they always put it? –

Intellectual Capital

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The Six Attitudes Leaders Take Towards Social Media

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Its value stems from how business leaders, from senior executives to managers, use it to foster new collaborative behaviors that materially improve business performance. Ignoring social media, or throwing it over the fence to Marketing or IT could create serious business risk. Where does your organization stand?

Media

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. All of these changes led to big gains for ranchers, who experienced an increase in productivity of 2.3x

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Strategy gets set at the top.

Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Strategy gets set at the top.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital

All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur

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Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Can HP Change its DNA?

Most Organizations Still Fear Social Media

CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

The Six Attitudes Leaders Take Towards Social Media

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Bureaucracy Must Die

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

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