Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). 1 priority for the highest achievers today is to lead a personal and professional transformation for themselves and their teams. BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts.

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IPO Audience Storytelling Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO. So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day? The screen flickered. We cheered!

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

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Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. That is a million dollar advice for anyone who is building teams and organizations. Don’t Kill It!

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Process IPO Directory Creativity 84

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot. Despite the check’s warning that something was amiss, managers decided to push forward anyway. But a few teams did solve the problem.

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Crisis IPO Film How To 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks. IPOs have huge costs and risks.

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IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. One sales manager, a former actor, recited Shakespeare at a customer meeting and won over skeptical executives.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Members of her executive team were strong in their current roles but none was quite right for the top job. He is very strategic and his teams would take the hill for him. Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. He might be worth looking at as an option.”

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. Marketing was a bit of a nebulous concept for the executive team,” he says. The price tag?

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. The Power of Teams . Communications Elevated .

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Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

With the JOBS Act , the rise of international accelerators , the upcoming Facebook IPO , and the mind-blowing $1 billion Instagram acquisition , you can be sure that droves of young, ambitious founders will be jumping on the start-up bandwagon. It's juggling to manage your team, customers, investors, and strategic partners all at once.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” When a data breach happens, there is nothing worse than trying to figure out how to manage the crisis on the fly as it is still happening. Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year. Insight Center.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. Thus begins a cycle of frustration in Africa’s tech sector around the ability to hire and retain the right team. I observed their interests.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Our Bain & Company team recently concluded a five-year study to better understand the growth paths of over 8,000 companies across the world and the predictable barriers to growth that those companies faced (see some of those results reported in The Founder’s Mentality , which I coauthored).

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CEO IPO Energy COO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. There are few barriers to spontaneous collaboration among technical teams.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. What do you do next?

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Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It put one of its executives in charge of the project and told him to team up with the head of IT, even though neither had ever run a project this large or complex. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Its growth had been derailed.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian started out working with two like-minded colleagues, but he soon attracted a broader team of coders and supporters. All these leaders demonstrated the essentials of classic strategic management.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

But through “a lot of hard work, creativity, and a portion of luck” they managed they get without too much damage, he said. In the end, they managed to sell the company, and return money to the shareholders. billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation. In 2006, CEO Kenny sold the company to Publicis for $1.3

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Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together. Why do VCs in emerging markets take a systems approach?

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). But now I believe the designer-led team is on the verge of irrelevancy, too.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). But now I believe the designer-led team is on the verge of irrelevancy, too.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. There has to be a better way.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. Hoffman and his team understood that there was a need for a real business-focused connection model, since in business, success is often driven by "who you know." At the same time, I'm beginning to appreciate how he and his colleagues were smart. First, why lucky? Again, it preceded Facebook.

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IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

I have people on my team who are better than me in several areas of knowledge or practice. I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell. Sale is a big part of scale. Why the emphasis on attitude?

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Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Not" is not a typo.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Nearly all pointed to both the quality of the founding teams and HR risk as important factors — regardless of where the venture is based. entrepreneurs, just over $50,000) they typically seek more modest amounts of outside investment and are not typically working towards an acquisition or IPO. Related Video.

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