Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Data-driven customer insights give the CMO the power to do all that. Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Maybe it isn’t tangible like a chair or a P&L Statement, but it is most certainly observable and most definitely impacts performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Rob Bernard, Microsoft's Chief Environmental Strategist says, "If you run one of our offices, and you choose to use carbon-based power, we'll charge you more for your energy."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But “more boards are waking up to the power of leveraging technology as a competitive weapon,” according to Tim Theriault, former CIO of Walgreens Boots Alliance and current board member of Alliance Data, The Vitamin Shoppe, and Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield. . Update your mindset about the role of technology on the board.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It was a bittersweet song from a poem that told the story of a steel-driving man who won a contest pitted against the new fangled steam-powered drill and then died from the stress of the match. We live in a time flush with high efficiency, cost control, and lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Moreover, the existence of gender bias in organizational policies and practices may suggest that they have no power to determine their own success. I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. So sometimes I seem to have difficulty getting traction for my ideas.". "I

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. The corporate members include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, P&G, J&J, Kellogg’s, L’Oreal, and Unilever.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you were operating based on rational self-interest one could argue that you would buy as many tickets as possible. Our understanding of how organizations think and act doesn’t always make this distinction between the interests of the enterprise and its managers. How many would you buy? Sales Entrepreneurship Negotiations'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Once, the demise of the Great A&P would have been front-page news from Maine to California. For more than four decades, from 1920 into the 1960s, A&P was the largest retailer in the world. A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. and John A.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Every manager I have worked with hates the fact that companies talk about "Diversity and Inclusion," but then they are given targets on women (most don't even target balance). Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

When leaders come up short, as they often do, the problem may have less to do with them as individuals than with the top-down structures in which they operate. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. This idea of keeping people in their homes became a powerful mantra for the team and drove the development of Care in Place. Establish an innovation center. Protect the work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". On May 26, Germany set a world record when it produced 50% of its electricity needs from solar power alone.

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