Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Look it up online, or on your phone or notebook – no need to go to a library. As I complete my monthly, quarterly and yearly strategic planning for my retail operations, I break down each larger strategy to tactics and then actions. Need to contact someone immediately? Need information? Want to rent a movie? Liposuction!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2023

Enrolling in online or distance learning programs allows you to tap into various resources, including virtual lectures, interactive discussions, and online libraries, fostering a rich and dynamic learning experience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. The need exists for comprehensive business ideas and growth strategies. Here is where they go to get ideas, strategies and help, in the order where they commonly go. Serious books in libraries. It is lonely at the top. Advocacy Groups.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Each Sevian Business Program manual contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices. Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2016

At StrategyDriven, we’ve streamlined our operations; employing modern communications technologies and eliminating bricks and mortar offices that in-turn reduces our overheads and provides tremendous cost savings to you. But don’t take my word for it, try our services for yourself.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As such, StrategyDriven Advisors compiled their decades of corrective action program experience into a library of best practice methods and tools easily accessible from our online forum. Corrective action programs encompass the identification, reporting, evaluation, resolution, and trending of an organization’s issues and work requests.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The assessment program contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices. The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program was developed based on decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. It is a must-have for every HR and L&D pros’ library and toolkit. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). By Daniel H. ” 10. By John Whitmore.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Libraries and other repositories of information and knowledge. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates. Advocate groups for causes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

You can plan your strategy around what the audience knows and how they think. Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. Click here to learn more about Communispond’s LearnTo Library.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

When we teach strategy to MBA students, our student want magic bullets, things they can do to make their companies thrive forever. This expectation that consumers were welded to the Windows operating system meant that developers and computer manufacturers all felt they had incentives to focus on contributing to the Microsoft ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. But Netflix’s globalization strategy, and many of the challenges it’s had to overcome, are unique. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. But Netflix’s globalization strategy, and many of the challenges it’s had to overcome, are unique. Because it operates in so many countries, Netflix is able to try different approaches in different markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

KATERYNA/KONSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. The blood sample is anonymized and then analyzed by the CareAi AI-based health assistant that references a vast array of medical and diagnosing libraries, dispensing advice with a corresponding rating of confidence. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations. In larger operations, each may be a team unto itself.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). However, my Kindle allows me to keep a library at hand. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The Penguins were delighted with the idea that Perry would bring a refreshing new perspective to their operation and Perry, being an ambitious sort, was equally delighted to be chosen. I’m off to the library. I have order Gordon McKenzie’s book from the library and look forward to reading it soon. Thank you!!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy? How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies. This library is the start of our effort to build collaborative resources around these questions. Paul Polman. CEO, Unilever.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. For marketers to succeed in the social arena, strategies need to be grounded in network science , not conjecture. Marketing Strategy' Yet that’s exactly the problem. Let me explain.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. Others race to build a bigger library of downloadable movies. Amazon measures a feedback loop in seconds — or in tenths of a second.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Craft a Behavior-Change Strategy. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate. Work those into your behavior change strategy. Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

From The New York Public Library. The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. A regular operational meeting needs to be crisp and therefore as short as possible. Business builder meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. These trends will not affect all organizations equally, so it’s important for leaders to understand where their organization is right now, where it’s going, and how their approaches to strategy, organization, and talent will have to change to keep up. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

A CED strategy starts with an asset assessment rather than a needs assessment of the poor, recognizing that even the poorest families have assets to contribute to their own development. Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

For people who crave a bigger challenge, at least 27 Fortune 500 companies — including Dow Corning, Intel, PepsiCo, FedEx, IBM, and Pfizer — now operate pro bono programs in emerging economies such as India, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ghana, according to a survey by CDC Development Solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. When Innovation Is Strategy. Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential. Innovation Strategy' in Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

And while this is to a certain extent just a byproduct of their semi-monopoly status, I''m now convinced there''s calculation and strategy behind it as well. Maybe the passage of time has dulled my memory of what it was really like, or maybe the wonderfulness of the phone rep led me to believe that this was a different sort of operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

In your initial days and weeks as the new CIO, it will be imperative to determine whether your organization has a sound strategy for increasing efficiency, service quality, and transparency for your community. Know Your Community''s Needs and Cater Your Strategy Accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here are four strategies. Spacesaver Corporation, the leader in commercial storage and shelving for libraries and museums, displays giant posters of their customers’ installations throughout its manufacturing facility. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

The way in which the bigger issues are interpreted has direct bearing on strategy and implementation. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. by Hank Moore.

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