Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simon Tyler ( Speaker, Coach, & Author ) Authenticity - knowing who you are, what is important to you, what you stand for and being comfortable in all of that. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Stay human. Everyone has a back story, everyone is fallible and fragile.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achieve a palpable and intimate apposition. The higher you go up the corporate ladder, your technical skills become less important and your social skills become more important. Why is that? Your eye contact, although it occurs over a gap of yards, is not a metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The research used the Wardley mapping framework, developed by the LEF’s Simon Wardley, and applied it to the evolution of the IT organization. The Wardley mapping process enables organizations to better understand the competitive landscape they are operating in, and to see where to attack and where to defend.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Simone Golob/Getty Images. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Capitalizing on the area’s abundant rainfall, the team installed a rainwater harvesting system. What lessons can we share?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ). We need to be a perpetual rookie.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Predictability refers to how much better than random we should expect today’s best predictive systems to perform.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The system must connect the dots horizontally. A system cannot respond effectively when information has to flow up and down hierarchical lines: it is slow, and superiors often suppress the information because they do not see its importance or relevance or don't have time to respond. We have seen this happen before.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Compare that to Whole Foods, whose latest 10-K filing makes far fewer references to price, and cites low prices not only as a clear risk factor, but also one which contributed to its recent declines in operating income and net income. Amazon must change that price perception in the stores, in the media, and internally.

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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. to be published by Simon and Schuster, which will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness. I am currently writing a book, How Could I Miss That?,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? You and I consent to the system. And the system consents to us. There is no system. You and I aren't the system. Let me tell you a secret.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

This work is coordinated by a single firm, Amazon, but it often involves third parties (makers of dog food, delivery companies) whose systems interact seamlessly with Amazon’s. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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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. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.". While that was a fictitious scene, it was the type of statement that would make anybody raise an eyebrow.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?”

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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.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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. Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). Perhaps you have experienced low ideaflow. Blog Post ).

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