Engaging Leader

JULY 29, 2020

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results–Without Losing Your Soul.

Wireless 242

Wireless Incubator Human Resources Books 242

Engaging Leader

JULY 18, 2020

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results–Without Losing Your Soul.

Innovation 231

Innovation Wireless Incubator Human Resources 231

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

Incubator 29

Incubator Company Survey Consultative 29

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

Management 16

Management P&L Incubator Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.

Incubator 10

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15