Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Cooking might not be your thing, but maybe you’re incredible at leading strategic meetings, designing marketing plans, building teams, or keeping finances well above board. Vans is way more than just another shoe company; it’s a worldwide influencer that’s still striking a chord with up-and-coming generations.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” How about, “YES, I can do some hard work for you even though it would be easier for me to just say no.” The result? Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced?

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I just read the most fascinating book by Bill Browder - Red Notice - a True Story or High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Yes, most people think I only read boring business books but I do read some other books too. He was wildly successful in a dangerous environment.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Reviews: “This wild, wicked show is not just a screamfest; it’s a good piece of theater!” - The New York Times “Funny, furious and wholly enthralling!” - Wall Street Journal “Teller has filled Play Dead with elaborate illusions and effects including a slam-bang finale!”

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2023

“Credentialism runs wild in slack labor markets, ratcheting up qualifications well beyond what is genuinely needed to do a job,” explains Johns Hopkins University’s Katherine Newman in her recent book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. Meanwhile, the payroll-to-sales ratio was also on the decline, with the only exception across all sectors analyzed being finance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2013

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard’s Economics Department.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

More often than not, this is when I get some of my best walks in. :-) Posted by: Jeff Konieczny | February 14, 2010 at 04:28 PM Chris, It's whats so good about living on a large piece of land, 100 acres or more, you can do wild outlandish things and no one see's or hears you. No one complains.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz ‘A contractor with limited experience can be a star in a specific field but cannot always see the system in a broader sense’, Wilde added. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

' Chapter 3 is all about 'The Renaissance' period of history and the effect on our modern day society. It shows the transition from the middle ages (mostly God centered, but wildly off track) to 'The Renaissance' period which is the start of humanism (man centered).

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Blog Leadership Real Estate Letter 112

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. As well as doing your main role, you’ll have to quickly learn to do every other role that a company needs as well, such as admin, accounting, marketing, and finances.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. The good news is that you don’t need a PHD in anthropology to spot trends in the wild. Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

We may think we are above the influence that stress has on our finances, but studies indicate the contrary. The ease of credit card use can spell trouble for more impulsive buyers , which highlights the importance of knowing yourself and the ways that you tend to deal with feelings like anxiety. High-Interest Rates.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Such involvement can lead to greater visibility. Start small and build up. Make a few great connections and develop those rather than chase a multitude of lukewarm responses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Economy Finance Sustainability' This is the key message from a leaked United Nations study that The New York Times reported on last week. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. That’s a lot of money to leave on the table, and a very good investment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. And if your metrics aren't trustworthy, then your compensation system won't be either.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Five years ago, "shadow IT" efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations. IT as Process Creator.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

More women have also taken on more responsibility for retirement planning, in part due to market and retirement plan upheaval; in 1978, the IRS created the structure in which the federal government essentially shifted the burden of retirement financing from employers to employees. Advertising Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

They too are paid by issuers, but it doesn't appear to be as close, conflicted, or lucrative a relationship as that between, say, the structured-finance raters and the big investment banks. If only journalism were that profitable (check out the relative stock price trajectories of Moody's and newspaper publisher Gannett ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 Different operational skills. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. Indeed, as part of an effort to learn from Germany about effective innovation, U.S. True, Americans do well at inventing. But the fairy tale that the U.S. It’s high time for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. ICOs are becoming more and more popular for startups seeking to get out of self-funding, bootstrapping starvation mode and avoid being locked in by venture capitalists, watching their own equity drown in a sea of financing rounds.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. However, it cannot distinguish between a saber-toothed tiger in the wild and a harsh email. Steve should have been celebrating. Our stress response system evolved to protect us from danger.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack. What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

New ventures, for example, often complain that the corporate finance function requires them to meet budget or lose bonuses or funding; or they can’t recruit the talent they need because of the corporate job evaluation approach. The divisions pay for what they get, and contribute a negotiated amount to the development of the brand.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Actually witnessing capture in the wild is different, though, and the new This American Life episode with secret recordings of bank examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York going about their jobs is going to focus a lot more attention on the phenomenon. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Economists and finance. Economists increasingly are also using insights from matching theory to help companies better design systems for matching potential employees with employers, where finding the right “cultural fit” is as or may be more important than an employee’s initial specific skills. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates. Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Education Finance' For instance: Whether your mother went to college. In a regression analysis that controlled for race, SAT score, and parental income, the researchers found that students whose moms didn’t go to college ended up borrowing about $1,500 more, and owed more on those loans 10 years out.

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Wilde Finance Sample Education 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

When we’re in the grip of strong emotions, our minds run wild. Perhaps Anika in the finance department told you last year that her promotion was denied, and you noticed how angry she was and how she doubted her own worth. Consider any examples you know of others in similar situations. You are not alone.

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Self-aware Stress Learning-by-Doing Project 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. If you''re thinking about starting your own company, here''s my advice: Set realistic expectations. While enthusiasm and faith are needed when planning out your business, you do want to temper those thoughts with realism.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

When cross referenced with data purchased from a third-party finance app that knows the same individual’s payment card spending habits at the local bar, suddenly you can see the value of behavioral biometrics to the liquor, beer, and wine industry. In a global market where 144 million unique U.S.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that academic publishing is what the Internet was once called — the Wild West. Most would not have access to or even an interest in engaging the media, while many would be from industry, the very people the PLoS study effectively warns you not to trust. But what about peer review?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Corporate finance? They think Jean Tirole is the IO guy or the corporate finance guy or the game theory guy.”. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice. Since when?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively.

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Apparently John had been reckless with his personal finances and had been involved in numerous affairs. People suffering from this condition report periodically experiencing an overactive mind and often seem to get by on little or no sleep. When that’s the case (far from surviving on no sleep), they struggle to get out of bed.

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