Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

When we think of needs and products we often go right to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs , the ubiquitous theory that human needs manifest in a specific sequence, from base survival to the pinnacle of self-actualization. When we talk about human needs, we use four categories: Connection. Uniqueness.

Forrester 14

Forrester Maslow Brand Human Needs 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? While there has been a lot of discussion about “what’s left for humans? Tintan/Getty Images.

Company 14

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

The arguments in favor of these efforts have been solid: commercial markets are saturated with adequate offerings, consumers are more aware of alternatives and more discerning in their choices, and innovative design is an effective way to differentiate and communicate a brand. Design outside of your innovation space.

Innovation 17

Innovation Consultative Brand Creativity 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. The Use of Available Technology.

Suri 16

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

The first is how much action we need to take. We''re used to hearing that we''ll need to reduce our carbon emissions by some percentage. The blunt reality is that to avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity needs to essentially eliminate all emissions. And we''re entering a city-building boom, both in the U.S.

Sharpe 13

Sharpe Technology System Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. It comes down to just communicating with other human beings.

Management 15

Management Software Long-term Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. Moreover, it’s not just technology-related jobs that are being reimagined with AI. It was going to be the factory of the future.

Power 14

Power Engineering Analysis Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Humanity needs the kind of hard-core, heavy, physical infrastructure that GE sells, and we badly need clean infrastructure in particular. billion people.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means there are too many ways that an attacker can take advantage of any part of the technology infrastructure in most companies to breach them or create harm. The market has validated this value proposition: AWS reported this year that their revenue grew 42% to $4.1B

ROI 12

ROI Long-term Banking System 12

HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2025

Many employers are also okay with this because the job market is full of workers who will willingly replace the unproductive ones, but this hiring and firing strategy doesnt work too well long-term either.

Trends 91

Trends Strategy Long-term Guidelines 91

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Smart, quasi-autonomous robots and machines are replacing humans in workplaces all over the world. Intelligent technologies are increasingly delivering greater value for less money. But “better than human” comes with its own managerial challenges. They learn fast, work hard, and certainly complain less.

Review 8

Review Kaplan Performance Review Kaizen 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 14, 2011

by John • March 15, 2011 • Life , Marketing • 2 Comments. I’m scared of technology. And when I left the corporate world, I figured to live out my golden years without technology. For starters, both of us blog about marketing, we scoff at the industry’s indulgent self-appreciation and we despise spin.

CEO 112

CEO Brand Technology Human Resources 112

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

by John • February 10, 2011 • Branding , Marketing , Writing • 3 Comments. Non-fiction writers require a ‘platform’, a means of marketing to an audience. A literary agent would look more favorably at a book on the workings of the human brain from a notable brain researcher than from John Bell. Human Resources.

Brand 100

Brand CEO Open-book Magazine 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. To give of their best, humans need to focus, tackle one thing at a time, and reflect deeply.

Film 8

Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 8