The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Transport is currently responsible for around 27% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the healthcare workers are hoping to encourage their employer to adopt more cycling-friendly policies among various other sustainability initiatives. Sustainability leadership. The benefits of going green.

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Shaw Chief Executive Officer Letter Survey 104

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

According to Wikipedia, the term Imposter Syndrome was coined by Pauline R. You can have anything in life that you want as long. I’m thankful I have transportation. Even though one was in upper management and one was a vice-president, both revealed they, too, were sometimes flooded with skepticism. Clance and Suzanne A.

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CIO Transportation Information Technology Learning-by-Doing 150

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

" Not to be confused with the derogatory word which, coincidentally, can accurately be applied to many bureaucrats, creep is a term used to describe a specific strategy nearly perfected by governments. Many think it's all okay as long as they are getting their pet programs, handouts, freebies, kickbacks, and power perks.

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Blog Leadership Crisis Travel 125

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. There are certainly limits to any case study but as long as you read with a critical mind you can learn from what others have tried. (a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School). The thesis aims to.

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Case Study Deming System Company 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Electric cars have been around for a long time (Tesla has been selling them for almost a decade), but the technology is still neither better nor cheaper than internal combustion.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Thirty Lessons I Learned About Leadership. Leadership is a lifelong journey through different experiences every day. This chapter offers thirty lessons as a reflection of my leadership experience. Leadership Tip: Learn how to make small steps while dreaming big. Leadership is not a dictatorship. Oleg Konovalov.

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Leadership Diversity Learning-by-Doing Licensing 87

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased. Hard things don’t come easy.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In particular, natural gas is plentiful in the United States, and it works well for short-haul trucking (compressed natural gas) and long haul trucking (liquid natural gas). Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. We need a more strategic approach to planning and funding our nation's transportation infrastructure for the future.

Transportation 13

Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

To address this challenge, a global transportation company we spoke with is using a strategic lens to expand the list of project ideas to find the ones with the highest potential corporate value, before filtering them. rapid new product roll-out). A global high-tech equipment provider is taking a different approach.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

from society as opposed to viewing profit as a byproduct of delivering a valued service over the medium and long term. Doing so is what ultimately creates long-term value. UPS's and Federal Express's for transport? In the end, long-term shareholder value is delivered when companies relish their broader role.

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Long-term Core Competence Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The question is whether we can make something of this once-in-a-generation opportunity and improve work for the long term – or make the existing problems worse. UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP. The coronavirus crisis has shown there’s a leadership deficit around the world. Nonhomogeneity is the key here.

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Diversity Company Crisis Contingency Plans 111

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If Furthermore, the returns on investment are long term.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Allocating our best talents to finance risks damaging the long-term innovative capacity of our economy. The long-term damage resulting from dismantling the premier higher education and research infrastructure of the United States would be dire. This is what the U.S. Markets will not generate enough innovation.

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Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

What seems special about the term is that, seemingly simple, it is actually complex and subtle. As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. And it is intuitively appealing.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Business today requires a mindset that is fundamentally different from the dominant existing mindset, and we have, so far, considered two specific dimensions: short-term versus long-term and fixed versus growth. A third dimension is control versus propensity. This aspect of mindset addresses how to get results and reduce risk.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. Ethics Global business Retail'

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Is the system of data classification, in terms of topics, themes, and sentiments, accurate? For example, in an analysis we performed for a transport company, we found that complaints shared on daily Twitter feeds tracked 90% with the content of customer-service comments registered by phone or mail.

Media 8

Media Brand ROI Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Among other things, BMW has invited suggestions on the future of transport, discussing more than 300 ideas including new approaches to electric vehicles, parking, and communication between vehicles. That leadership style is effective as long as you’re always one step ahead of rivals, and know what’s best for your team.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

For the first time, it illustrates how reducing the prevalence of obesity would reduce the burden of diabetes, in terms of the number of people with the disease and the costs to the health system. We developed a new projection tool , which plots the trajectory of diabetes prevalence over time. Urban planning.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

My research on rail, air, roads, cars and trucks, public transit systems, and model infrastructure projects for my book Move confirms a lesson about leadership for change: Incremental innovations can pave the way for breakthroughs. Take rail transportation. Simple ideas can revolutionize industries. Small wins can have big impact.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Project Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Among other things, BMW has invited suggestions on the future of transport, discussing more than 300 ideas including new approaches to electric vehicles, parking, and communication between vehicles. That leadership style is effective as long as you’re always one step ahead of rivals, and know what’s best for your team.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Another benefit is that much of the content produced in this medium is not from the typical industry pundits, but rather true “in the trenches” thought leaders that see things coming long before journalists report it in the news, or the so-called gurus publish it in their latest book. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Can you cut your commuting costs by using public transportation? Her teaching benefits didn’t cover short-term disability. He considers himself risk-averse, so when he made the move from nonprofit leadership to starting his own business, he did so with caution. Leadership and Managing People Book. Take Brandon.

Career 13

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You’ve covered your bases in terms of documentation, and you’ve coordinated with HR. Of course, firing should be the final step in a fair and transparent process that began long before the actual termination talk — and there should be a trail of paperwork to prove it. But now you have to have the dreaded conversation.

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Short-term Long-term Document Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Thanks to leadership from the Obama Administration — in the form of a $3.7 Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Tools Transportation Short-term Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

And how long should you expect it to take? This is good for the sponsor, for whom this is an opportunity to demonstrate leadership skills, and the new employee, who can get feedback without having to worry about asking his new manager (sometimes silly) questions. So, how long before your new hire is fully assimilated into her position?

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Ryan How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2023

The benefits of remote working are obvious—less commuting, fewer transport emissions, better quality of life with more time with family and friends. However, the terms of the right to disconnect are quite different in Portuguese law. One of the laws at the workplace that has changed the way we work is the right to disconnect from work.

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Short-term Diversity Long-term Transportation 111

Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2022

And remember that relations with the media need to be viewed as a long-term game. If you spin the facts, then when there is good news, will you be believed or trusted? Several other tips on dealing with a negative media situation : Identify how much traction the story is getting.

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Handbook Public Relations Chief Executive Officer How To 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” When leaders include vivid images in their communications, they’re transporting employees to the future by telling snippets of a compelling story — a story that captures events that have yet to unfold. Along these lines, visions with image-based words are more consistent with the literal meaning of the word “vision.”

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System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. But a little innovation goes a surprisingly long way. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Which begs the question of why it took so long to get to market. But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

“What companies want is a leadership base that at least somewhat parallels their customer base. Prices collected include those for housing, utilities, transportation, food, drink, recreation, clothing, domestic help, household supplies, communications, home furnishings, personal care, and medical. ” Related Video.

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Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress.

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

World demand for oil is expected to grow on an annual basis by at least one million barrels per day, driven by the developing economies of the world and growth in transportation, which is forecast to increase from one billion cars today to two billion in 2050. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers.

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Policies Energy Transportation Politics 12