Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. Accelerated change driven by exponentially advancing technologies have made steep learning curves part of every day work. Fortunately, book authors Heather C.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. So, if you’re an employer or a manager, consider making leadership skills a priority in your performance evaluation process.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2022

” Yesterday’s solutions are creating today’s problems — and opportunities.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

This question spurred frank and difficult conversations about why growth was stagnating, why employee attrition was happening, what it would take to effect real change (to culture, to policies and processes, to the product set, and to the customer experience), and who would have to step up to lead the charge. Tips to Ask Good Questions.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” ” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. That’s even truer today. They own it.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. Practice pitches and product or service descriptions. Rehearse your pitch.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Or perhaps someone who can spend some days behind their desk and other days in the field, equally productive in both environments. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. What are your values?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Technology, too, has brought us closer together and the opportunities we have to develop relationships and work with others on-line are many and varied. So, the leader’s job is to strive for and encourage a balance that allows for healthy discussion, respectfully and productively conducted. All this sounds like work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. They listen to their best customers — something we did religiously at Medtronic — making increasingly complex products to meet those customers' most sophisticated needs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. It’s time companies ask themselves: Who can actually afford our products now? How has that group changed over the past year?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Keep the pressure on productivity. Your leadership is crucial.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Often, in a desire to get the ball rolling or maybe because of the leadership's own imperfect understanding of their company's problems, jamming teams are often given broad, ill-defined problem statements. But for jamming to pay dividends, problems need sharp definition, even if this requires more effort up-front.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At PepsiCo, we’re leveraging design to create meaningful and relevant brand experiences for our customers any time they interact with our portfolio of products. This applies not only to the current portfolio of products, but also to PepsiCo’s future portfolio. There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership. Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

In the wake of his recent retirement, much has been written about Steve Job's peerless leadership and how he transformed not just his company, Apple, but the way we interact and live with media and technology.

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