Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 6, 2024

Cary, NC – May 6, 2024 – The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), the global home of the Situational Leadership ® Model, announced today the release of Situational Conversations , a flexible, multimodal program that enables leaders to drive success and engagement through meaningful conversations. 1 Solomon L. 3 Buhler P M, Worden J D.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. From our view and experience, what underpins the success of these new ideas and approaches is the abilities, skills, and mindset of the company’s workforce. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Dorsey focuses on Fred Thomas and his sales team and the sometimes strange but effective motivational techniques of his district manager, Frank Pacetta. You ultimately can’t substitute money for management. Companies tend to do plans by P&L unit, even when Sales (for good reasons) sells across those units.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not. Impulse patronage" looks and feels like impossibility to anyone who isn''t a manager with a cash-flow-positive P&L and the courage to take a chance. But one inherent challenge — flaw? I''d say not.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

As a Big Picture business strategist, I encourage clients toward adopting new ways of thinking about old processes, including those which brought past and enduring successes. Successful enough to grow, pay its dues and continue growing. The best successes are earned and learned. It is to be just: Committed to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Companies such as GE, Deere & Company, P&G, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Nestle already get it, and have a huge jump on their competitors, bringing their emerging market innovations "back home" to their home markets. Most, if not all, of the people and resources dedicated to reverse innovation efforts must be based and managed in the local market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice. That’s quite a mismatch.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Who has P&L authority? Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day. It includes accountabilities. None of these are easy questions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the things that surprised me most about security at Facebook is the level of attention and support that we receive from the company’s senior management team. Other teams can use similar methods to show how their efforts contribute to the company’s overall success. After all, hackers have P&L sheets too.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” What successful companies are doing right. ’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

To generate ideas, run electric current through your brain: Research subjects who received electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes of the brain were 3 times more likely to come up with the fresh insight needed to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than people in a control group, according to Richard P. Chi and Allan W.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. We have to remember that technology is merely a tool that helps us to understand and relate to others and our surroundings; it doesn’t in and of itself define our values. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One consultant said that a candidate may accept a less-than-perfect job if it is in a sound industry and at a firm with a track record of success “even if the role is only 60–70 percent of what they are ideally looking for.” Working for a successful company is of the utmost importance to executive-level candidates, many respondents said.

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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. Prototyping care models requires quick access to care locations, medical supplies, IT systems, new medical devices and technology, patients, and time with different providers.

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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.". Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology.

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