Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

Leadership 102

Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner. He operates in a world where craft and artistry are real positives. There’s a tremendous body of management and marketing literature focused on the importance of purpose to organizational success. Absolutely.

Wilde 67

Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses.

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. Could men have done the same?

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. Leadership Managing yourself' This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

Simon 8

Simon Diversity Agility Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Once that need has been met, a new challenge will come to the fore: can they also get their investments out unscathed? Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. For example, as driverless cars improve and we become more comfortable with them, the introduction and resolution of laws limiting their liability could facilitate the emergence of insurance markets that should drive down the cost of error.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination. Icahn won that playground tussle.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.".

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

Company 9

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

Strategy 9

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 9