Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

You stop at a window that has an aging, yellowed 360 report and think, “What is that?”. While I love your vision, I personally hope that the 360 becomes even more engrained in the businesses in which I operate. 360’s are a featured item in the Leadership Museum. What will you see when 360’s are obsolete?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Liz was not someone considered to have “leadership potential” before John took over the division they worked in. Seeing “and&# can help. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

I love to be asked to think by my own boss, and I love to see the wheels turning when the people who report to me are using their brains and tapping into their innate wisdom. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Helen: The woman who owned and operated the historical lodge where I worked as a maid in my teenage summers, who told vivid stories about summers gone by. Working as a riveter, a punch press, and extruder operator could be some of the most mind-numbing work I would ever do. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up, bub.&# Mary Jo Asmus [.]

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 6, 2010

At work, I have learned to seek out others (some in my department, some above my department, some that report to my department) who are trying to improve (learn) themselves. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The tyrant boss reported directly to this VP. It took a lot of courage (some may call this stupidity) to report the transgressions of my boss to his boss. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

they don’t directly report to you; you cannot count on your staff to be completely open). Consider belonging to an “advisory group” of external, non competing peers (such as a Mastermind group). Have trusted advisors surrounding you. These are the people who will give you their unbiased opinion.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

So with that out of the way, I am pleased to tell you that The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and Managers is a book that belongs in the hands of all leaders – whether they have direct reports or not. Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although anecdotal, there is some connection to the research out there as well as what others who meditate regularly have reported. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I was off in my thoughts a lot. Thanks for the link.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Informally visiting with your direct reports, your employees, and your peers often doesn’t require a lot of effort or time. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Thanks for stopping by again and for your kind comments on the blog.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

He’s establishing a regular rhythm for getting feedback from his direct reports. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It’s hard work. He has also asked a senior executive to be a mentor to him. We just need to ask.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. It's a perspective that has gone universal and is embedded in the way a company operates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

I think that another way to make sense of all this lack of time is to ask the person who needs a certain report or whatever it is why they need it, and perhaps there’s a better source for getting this information. However, it seems that what’s not important to me may be very important to someone else. Especially in a big company?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. The B&N precedent raises the question of whether business schoolseven elite onescan afford to maintain a business-as-usual approach to their traditional core operations. They say yes; I say no..

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Do a thorough evaluation of required costs and resources associated with digital marketing efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

. “This new streamlined P&G should continue to grow faster and more sustainably, and reliably create more value,” he said in a telephone call with reporters and analysts to discuss P&G’s quarterly results. Which 20% of employees — and key suppliers — produce the 80% that core technical competence or capability?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. Android is Google’s open-source operating system (OS), which means that it can be adopted by any device manufacturer and modified to provide different functionality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

But “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” as Mark Twain said. With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. To apply lessons from social innovation projects within a larger corporate innovation strategy, organizations need to think differently about how to leverage core competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies. Mainly because, as Marc Andreessen puts it, " software is eating the world."

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Jeff Bezos recognized the revolutionary portent of e-commerce back in 1994 when he read a trend report about the explosive growth of internet usage. Consider how Walt Disney – or the folks from ESPN – leveraged core competencies and strategic assets to build global entertainment empires.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

My work as an executive coach involves looking at a lot of 360 degree feedback reports. They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Leaders who operate in this mode lose their peers in no time flat. They over focus on short term results and under focus on relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises. Change the Rules.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In healthy and aligned organizations, the stated values and operating values are one and the same. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Vision Vision is a measurable direction of where you are going.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

B&N is moving boldly into this future in four ways that hold lessons for any company facing a troubled core: Competing with its legacy business: Rather than swim against the e-book tide, B&N has embraced the inevitable with its Nook readers. Print books are in decline but e-books are rocketing ahead, growing nearly 150% year-on-year.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Innovation gets stymied when a company defines itself by what it does rather than by what it knows or owns—when its “concept of self” is built around products and services rather than around core competencies and strate­gic assets. Efficiency: changes over time in the ratio of innovation outputs to inputs.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

he wasn’t the person responsible, but someone who reported to him was). Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I had a client who very publicly took the blame for something done in his organization (i.e.,

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Environment Greenleaf 188

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. The company issued everything through written news releases.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. Protect the work.

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