Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I’ve seen this first hand, when I look back at the most creative times in my career and in how I’m approaching my business now, the best solutions came when we felt the most stretched. I also watched the evolution at Verizon Wireless in this regard.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Things we take for granted today as can’t-live-without mostly existed for quite some time before demand caught up: robotics; the Web; graphical design software; computerized motor engines; online banking; the smart phone; and wireless broadband devices are just a few.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 5, 2016

Early in her career, one of Karin’s first bosses, Gail, brought Karin with her to senior-level meetings, arguing that “no one could explain it better” than she could. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she was named to Inc. Show trust by believing in their capabilities. Invite them to come along.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. The campaign predicted which voters would be positively persuaded by campaign contact, and which would be inadvertently influenced to vote adversely. Nothing foretells consumer need like predicting the birth of a new consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. And that’s how we’ll sell airtime, the same way.’”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.” 5] Folta, Timothy B., Frédéric Delmar, and Karl Wennberg.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

It was the turning point in my career. If you’re old enough to have been in the working world 20 years ago, you have seen many evolutions: cell phone, computer, laptop, software, internet, email, wireless connection, the rise and fall of CompuServe and AOL, car phones (remember them?) Newspapers called wanting to publish the column.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choices. Loosen up the notion of the career ladder. A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Take-away: This provides a targeted way to improve a weakness that's bothered you throughout your career, such as poor recall of facts in a meeting, or an inability to remember faces that would help improve your networking skills. Neurofeedback tools require users to wear an EEG headband with small sensors that track brain waves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries, exploring their use of technology, including access to devices like smartphones and wireless wearable devices, and the frequency with which they use them. For women, recognizing the boost that digital can add to their lives and careers should be a call to action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

How can we build excitement for learning and inspire today’s youth to channel their passions and skills into a solution—or a career—that leverages technology to accelerate impact? Exposing and engaging students early is one of the best chances we have, and it benefits everybody.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. Never, in my entire career of studying innovation, have I observed a project, initiative, or idea that worked out as planned. So, make it continuous and systematic. Set aside a regular budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Whatever the specific reason for endorsing a deal, the common thread is that champions are at a point in their career where they are willing to take a risk. AT&T was the ideal partner and investor for OnLive: they were playing catch up with Comcast in high-speed internet access for the home and with Verizon for wireless.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Amazon openly shares its Career Choice program with other companies, which trains entry-level workers, mostly in warehouses, for higher-paying careers. Once a company understands that it is a node in an interconnected network, its business strategy must change externally and internally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. In fact, Quantified Self hosts health experiments as well as career-focused ones. Output here is usual visual representations of what was measured.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Some of us are totally immersed and intrigued by what can be accomplished in a wireless world, (including all the cool toys that come along with it). Then my life changed when I got Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in early 90′s and I had to leave my burgeoning career and find another way to “be&# instead of “do&#.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Wireless Generation, an innovative assessment company, stepped in to help. For the first time, 42 states and the District of Columbia have adopted rigorous common standards, and 44 states are working together in two consortia to create a new generation of assessments that will genuinely assess college and career-readiness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem. And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways. I recently bought an iPad. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Dual-career ladder: : Scientists can continue to move up the ladder without becoming managers. New Venture Formation: Product inventors must recruit their own teams, reaping the benefit of 3M''s many networking forums as they seek the right people for the job at hand. However, if the product fails, everyone is guaranteed their previous jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013. Today, their company lives in Block 71 and is growing substantially.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. Andreessen: It also demonstrates a huge advantage to having to leave for a plane. Barksdale: That’s right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. and The Career Playbook. He achieved consistent growth for 16 years at Sirona. Former CEO Named #1 Most Influential Person in Dentistry for 2017. Bill Simpson – Former CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company.

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