The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. No one is equally expert at both.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

You see, the most important item to understand is that success as a leader has very little to do with your perception, but rather it has everything to do with the perception of others. Regardless, you are probably not destined for success in leadership. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. Accountability. Perseverance.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. I’ve simply lived too long to buy into the myth that success in the workplace will create happiness at home.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. The core takeaway: Technology matters most when it is in the service of a compelling strategy.

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Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 14

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. What does success look like in your position? What are job goals and key success metrics? During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. Liane Davey.

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Neither alone controlled speed to market, but together they could significantly influence it. No wonder our requests drive you crazy!”

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How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). Worse, only about one in six data groups (15%) were judged successful.

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Technology Sharpe Middle Management Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. At this stage, more is more, because you may work your way through five, ten, or even twenty ideas until you find ones that are distinctive and memorable.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Hess Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Regardless of the actual reason, successful remote-working parents always present the arrangement in a commercial, good-for-business frame. Wear what makes you feel sharp and confident. Do a technology audit. Smart use of technology can maximize your efficiency and your connection to colleagues. Ask around to find out.

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How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

In my experience, even very sharp business leaders tend to misunderstand three facts when thinking about climate change. Given our current rate of emissions, we''ll need a sharp slope towards a "carbon zero" world in order to stay within that budget. The first is how much action we need to take. and internationally.

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Sharpe Technology System Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. The emergence of the iPhone and smart technology completely altered the way consumers interact with media and brands. Data-Driven Marketing. A successful brand must now be intimately integrated into the consumer’s life.

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Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

Management 8

Management Health Care Insurance Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We discovered some of these pushes and pulls in our research for our upcoming book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution. Among the many interviews conducted in researching the book, it wasn't at all rare to hear of successful professionals who woke up at 4:30 a.m.

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Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. At this stage, more is more, because you may work your way through five, ten, or even twenty ideas until you find ones that are distinctive and memorable.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In fact, given the risk-averse culture of the organization and the tough market environment, you suspect they will likely re-evaluate within six months. Examples of constraints are regulatory, legal and ethical issues, or infrastructural or technological restrictions. Then you start worrying. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation'

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Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

While Functional Fixedness has no doubt been around since Man first tied a sharp rock to a stick with a length of vine and called it a spear, it was Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker that originally coined the term after conducting what has become a famous (among psychologists, anyway) cognitive bias experiment. I believe it is possible.

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Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Market MD Leader : This role is responsible for a business segment or region, and oversees other MD leaders or a broader scope of clinical/MD staff (such as regional or market physician leader or chief of an AMC faculty division). These leaders learn to oversee and delegate work, and develop and coach others. A Tall Order.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Silicon Valley was abuzz with reports that Google had granted across-the-board raises of 10 percent to all 23,000 or so of its employees — a bracing reminder of just how much money Google makes, and of its willingness to share the spoils of success with its people. But companies work by different rules.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 14