Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We engaged in a multi-country research project aimed at helping global organizations understand the most important characteristics of the leader of the future. The ability to negotiate complex alliances and manage complex networks of relationships is viewed as becoming increasingly important. Building Partnerships. Sharing Leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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The Idolbuster

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Story 1: “Jack,” a Director at a national telecommunications company, laments not recognizing that his colleague as a Fox. “My Jack is a really good leader, meets project deadlines but….’ Story 2: “Liz,” a Senior Manager in the software industry describes her friend “Susie” who got ahead at her expense. “She

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. Observers project the medical industry will spend over $27 billion over the next six years. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity. In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

It was the Marketing Manager, and he had been in the cable business for over 20 years. My boss put me in charge of the project, from end to end. It would be handed out by a local manager, who would have all the right corporate talking points for the immediate questions. There was one in particular that really got to me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Joint-Venturing - Partners come together for specific purposes or projects that may be beyond the scope of individual members. Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Telecommunications industry service providers.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If someone you manage is complaining to you about the amount of grunt work they have, you need to figure out a way to help them get over their frustration and see that everyone on the team has grunt work they have to do, and also learn to manage their time so that they don’t short-change higher-value activities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers, even at the most senior levels, don’t fully appreciate the difference between announcing a major change initiative and actually making it happen. When senior leaders disappear after a big change announcement, and leave lower-level managers to execute it, they are missing in action. Consider this example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Telecommunications 66%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity. You have no moral authority to ask other managers to hold people accountable if you’re not doing so yourself. What Great Managers Do. Are you sure you’re doing enough to push for high performance?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. It would have been a profitable project and, more important, successful completion would have proved a new product concept. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Her team was energized when the competitor that won the project made several missteps.

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Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Frequently, stressed and harried managers look up the organization hierarchy and assume that they'll have greater control of their time when they advance to the C-suite. Many managers are "sprinters" early in their careers. Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their employees, but the reality for senior executives?

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. I would guess 90% of all managers believe in their ability to undertake professional interviews.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. To be clear, this is not — repeat not — an esoteric tech project. But we're even more concerned about managers who are accustomed to managing by the seats of their pants (and pantsuits) and threatened by data.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

I don’t mean bankruptcy or catastrophic setbacks, but rather the heartbreak associated with hires who quit after lots of training, or money wasted on advertising that didn’t attract customers, or time forever lost on projects that couldn’t be implemented for one reason or another. We tend to project onto others our way of seeing the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products. Administrivia.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Similar wastewater projects in Chinese cities are showing that sludge can be converted into valuable products such as vehicle fuels and organic composts. Almost everyone has some skin in this game.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. People throughout the organization will be expected to routinely make decisions once reserved for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. Land deeply believed in Polaroid as a technology-led company committed to expensive, long-term technology projects. Good product managers are in continuous conversation with their customers. That makes him sound like Google.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Their challenge then is to learn how to manage these partnerships differently than the vendor relationships they had before.

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Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. What if our approach to leadership was to evolve into Drucker''s vision of "socially accountable and culturally embedded" management? It is a social function.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The staggering capital requirements of todays projects — think billion dollar semiconductor factories — dwarf those of yesteryear. The staggering capital requirements of todays projects — think billion dollar semiconductor factories — dwarf those of yesteryear.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. That's a legitimate concern, but don't let a skunkworks social-media project get so far outside the mainstream that it can't make effective use of common platforms and other resources.

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