Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Shaw Leadership 377

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter.

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Shaw Telecommunications Metrics Pharmaceuticals 229

HR Digest

JULY 25, 2023

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes estimated that technological change and productivity improvements would make a 15-hour workweek possible within a couple of generations. The top time-suck was meetings, so to make workers more productive in a four-day week, employers need to hold fewer of them. ” The U.S.

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Shaw Policies Stress Productivity 97

LDRLB

MAY 20, 2013

In a working paper released last year titled “ The Value of Bosses ,” Stanford’s Edward Lazaer and Kathryn Shaw, as well as University of Utah’s Christopher Stanton examined the inner workings of a technology-based service firm and calculated the effectiveness of teams and bosses. times the productivity of adding a tenth team member.

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Middle Management Management Shaw Comparison 166

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

And within another 15, the nascent automobile industry found itself rocked by yet another innovation: Henry Ford's system of mass production, which obliterated hundreds of competitors who could not produce cars as quickly or cheaply. Many incremental improvements become far better products and businesses. innovators. entrepreneurs.

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Heron Shaw Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.". Leverage the best communication technologies. Developments in collaborative technologies — ranging from shared workspaces to multi-point video conferencing — unquestionably are making virtual teaming easier.

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Team Shaw Commitment After Action Review 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Once we agree that there is some number at which we've got to question the assumption of mandatory email response, we are ( to borrow from Shaw ) just arguing over the number. Are you more productive for it? At some point, the number gets Too Big For One Person (TB41P), and when that happens, you've got to revisit assumption #2.

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Shaw Cost Review Learning-by-Doing 15