Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. So what happened?

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. Organizational Goals and Objectives Let’s say you want your business to launch into a new market and make a name for itself within the next 18 months.

Strategy 52

Strategy Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

But there is one thing we've personally seen that profoundly and consistently changes lives — what's generally referred to as the 360-degree feedback process. Maybe that's why our blood comes to a slow boil when we see a popular columnist arguing that 360-degree feedback programs fail.

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360-Degree Feedback Review Participative Survey 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

My knowledge of corporate leaders' 360-degree feedback indicates that one out of four of them has a listening deficit—the effects of which can paralyze cross-unit collaboration, sink careers, and if it's the CEO with the deficit, derail the company. This released GE managers' energy to grow their businesses with new ideas.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

In writing the book Sales Growth , we've found that CEOs who put sales management at the heart of their agenda have captured astonishing growth — outstripping their peers by 50 to 80 percent in terms of revenue and profitability. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets.

CEO 17

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

aren’t taught management skills in medical school. And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business.

Training 15

Training Health Care Management Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Does business education facilitate integration of personal values with management practice?

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360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I recently returned from a trip to Beijing where I was working with senior managers to develop leadership skills in one of the largest companies in the world. And there was a third party managing the 360 process so the feedback was anonymous and about as protected as one can get. So perhaps there are other reasons.

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360-Degree Feedback Globalization Participative Skills 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

In the traditional view of executive coaching, an executive, with her boss’s participation , takes personality assessments, receives 360-degree feedback , and creates and implements a development plan designed to address performance gaps, optimize her contribution, and prepare her for new responsibilities.

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360-Degree Feedback Execution Real Estate Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

As new managers fill vacancies created by retiring Boomers, how do their skills compare with the seasoned older managers they replace? Naturally, our assumption was that veteran managers would be more effective on almost every front. To be elevated into management at an early age is not common. Becoming a Manager.

Management 8

Management 360-Degree Feedback Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

One consultant virtually spelled out a formal specification: “Executives should not only have a high level of intellectual curiosity (staying current on market trends and changing dynamics in business), but also a personal sense of flexibility and adaptability.” The consequence is that they miss the weak signals of the market.”.

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360-Degree Feedback Self-aware Mentor Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Energy vampires are often smart, well-intentioned managers who inadvertently slow the company down with too many questions, too much analysis, too much process—and not enough action. For what seems like all the right reasons, the company is not acting in the external market, but is piling up more internal initiatives.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy 360-Degree Feedback How To Energy 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Today, organizations must adopt agility in their leadership approaches to successfully adjust to changing circumstances—whether responding to market shifts or adopting new business models. Recently, IBM successfully adopted a version of these frameworks while transforming from a hardware-focused company to a cloud and AI services leader.

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Agility Leadership Development Quinn 360-Degree Feedback 269

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Understanding the Role of Board Evaluation in Effective Governance Board evaluations are more than a procedural formality; they represent a structured opportunity to align an organizations leadership with evolving market conditions. Quantitative Measures: Targeted surveys, performance scorecards, and skill gap analyses.

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360-Degree Feedback Benchmarking Groupthink Objective 195

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Gather 360-Degree Feedback: Collect honest perspectives from peers, direct reports, and managers to pinpoint both strengths and areas for development. Combine Quantitative and Qualitative Data: Merge performance metrics with feedback insights to create a holistic view of leadership impact.

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Team Leadership Self-aware 360-Degree Feedback 221