First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 24, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. A graduate of the […].

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Offshoring Chief Executive Officer Teamwork Uncertainty 75

N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

One of the most difficult areas for executives to wrap their mind around is how to unlearn legacy based thinking. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? One of the most common reasons for pursuing best practices in a given area is to avoid having to “reinvent the wheel.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 30, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change.

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IAS Offshoring Chief Executive Officer Teamwork 75

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” That’s why I’m on a mission to share this skillset with sales executives. But asking each sales executive to reach out to sales managers over the company’s instant messaging platform could be a highly effective way to make the message stick.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

It’s especially hard for senior executives, who have got where they are thanks to the way they behave. That’s why executives often engage the services of a coach. To help with the transition, and in particular with the project, the company hired two new executives. Let me give you an example. They distrusted each other.

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360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

As an example, a recent job posting on the website of a global healthcare company seeks an individual for a sales operations leadership position who can do the following: Strategy: •Contribute to the 1- and 3-year business vision as a member of the executive leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China. This will instill confidence and make them grow.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The fact that many of the problems relating to crisis response and crisis management recurred in Japan, with the Gulf spill still freshly in mind, shows how easy it is to talk the talk on these matters of crucial importance, and how difficult to actually execute in the turbulence of low probability but high consequence events.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. They create new products and services for customers. You need them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. The union acted as a second set of leaders to help execute and reinforce changes.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do this, it created a score for each customer executive, reflecting their propensity and ability to buy the company’s offerings, so that sales and marketing approaches could be more effective. Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. Start early to shift the leadership mindset. So early preparation is needed. Mold the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

“What companies want is a leadership base that at least somewhat parallels their customer base. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g. ” Related Video.

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