Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

I’m the SVP of Operations of a Cable TV Company that operates in 4 states and has 22 operating divisions. We had acquired the properties in 2003, and had spent the first 5 years setting the stage for a drive to sustained growth and profitability. Better still, we had a secret weapon that was guiding us along.

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Metrics Leadership Operations Report 214

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. Studies of why people fail ( Finkelstein , 2003; Dottlich , 2003; Lombardo ; Bennis , 2002; Zenger, 2002) all include some version of the lack of willingness and ability to adapt and learn from experience.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. In 1973, he was honored for his achievements as a coach. why is everyone smiling?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 98

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

The growing reality in retrospect is that these same principles not only made me an effective leader, but they enabled me to develop something in the workplace that every organization strives for but often struggles to achieve: team cohesiveness. With consistency, trust will be developed. Developing this trust starts with loyalty.

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Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 59

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks. Worth paying attention to?

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Technology 109

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine. In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. Antivirals and other drugs for malaria, AIDS, and MERS show early signs of hope in treating this new virus.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. The NASA community and the entire world were saddened by the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. Losses reported by the airline industry for 2001 compare to an operating profit of $7 billion and a net profit of almost $3 billion in 2000. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 56

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change.

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Open-book Self-aware Shaw Learning-by-Doing 78

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) See my paper in The 2003 Annual : Volume 1 Training [Jossey-Bass/Pfieffer]: “Designing Curricula for Learning Environments Using a Facilitative Teaching Approach to Empower Learners” pp 263-272). It’s a systems/change problem.

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Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 18

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. Take the example of Germany: Between 2003 and 2015, R&D expenditure in the business sector increased by 59%, reaching a record high of 157.4 billion euro. Nonetheless, U.S.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start.

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Company Short-term Engineering PR 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Redesign the organization.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Operating such restaurants is expensive.

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. Note how Poss used the prediction approach as he analyzed available operational and financial data on trash truck fuel consumption. They average only 2.8

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. We developed a suite of courses, such as "Micro-Inequities" where people learned about common behaviors that could undermine our efforts. Our employee engagement has been operating at world-class levels for years. Confront the brutal facts. ?

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Diversity Human Resources How To Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

and judge the extent to which these organizational capabilities already exist and whether they have a good likelihood of being developed. Fenix International has developed the ReadySet battery that can be charged by a mini-solar panel or by riding a stationary bicycle. Staffing, Communicating, etc.) Coach for College brings U.S.

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Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” The absence of fixed costs for customers attracted small and innovative web developers.

Health Care 15

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. So we developed a concept called "Life Spaces" for our new homes. Grand Homes is a privately held local homebuilder operating exclusively in the Dallas/Ft.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. Operating in this environment requires persistence, flexibility, and a deep-rooted desire to change the status quo. He was attracted to the country''s immense potential and the aspirational drive of its people.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. In January 2003, it was named the Car of the Year ahead of entries from Mercedes, Toyota, and Ford. Global business India Innovation Product development'

Innovation 13

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Agency for International Development (USAID), and the White House Task Force on Climate Change. "To By overlaying a water stress map with Coca-Cola's operational plants, Seabright found that almost half of their global volume was in high stress and high growth areas. Foreign Service, U.S. Senate, U.S.

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Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

During this first phase of development, the total contribution of renewable power generation hovers below critical thresholds. During this second phase, grid operators frequently have to intervene to keep the electricity grid in balance.

Energy 14

Energy Decentralization Power Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. The human body is built to maintain equilibrium with basic, vital operating parameters, and we do so by sacrificing functionality. Appetite fades. Digestion shuts down.

Health Care 14

Health Care System Information Review 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%. While M&A transactions absorb much of senior management’s attention and attract great interest from financial analysts and the business press, the company’s operational performance will ultimately make or break the transformation.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 14