Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We already know that innovation is largely in decline, with breakthroughs today not only less frequent and less revolutionary than in the past, but also considerably more expensive to achieve, both in terms of money and manpower. This is despite the average startup today remaining private twice as long as was the norm in the past.

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Rajesh Setty

JUNE 13, 2013

The journey in simple terms is akin to a “wild” roller coaster ride in the dark. If not, the relationship may last only as long as it is convenient to keep it alive. We as human beings operate on stories – the ones that we tell, ones that we tell ourselves and the ones that we hear from others.

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Entrepreneur How To Brand Storytelling 55

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Team dynamics are also a big deal when it comes to workplace stress, in terms of the way teams operate and how team members interact with each other. The above statistics show that team dynamics directly affect a whopping 92% of what causes the most stress. It creates an atmosphere of fairness and equity, and of respect and trust.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The real problem is that the earnings from their substantial foreign operations are translated back to the home country financials to produce fewer dollars of net profit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. But almost everyone involved in a young company is betting on the long-term. PhotoAlto/Jorge Goncalves/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. What's the holdup?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is a high-octane, high-consequence, long-term date. Different operational skills. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 A complementary temperament.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again. I teach people about stuff that they learned a long time ago. So this stuff’s been around a long time. How long – were you there in the organization for a while? So why is it not more common? Meet needs.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again. I teach people about stuff that they learned a long time ago. So this stuff’s been around a long time. How long – were you there in the organization for a while? So why is it not more common? Meet needs.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

It just has a nasty habit of being dysfunctional So what, in the simplest terms is effective communication? Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. I realize now that my clients did not get their money’s worth for a long time. It does exist. There is an element of truth in this.

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Delegation Blog Wilde Learning-by-Doing 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

If all of this sounds familiar, then it should because not too long ago Apple faced a similar situation after its launch of the iPhone 5. In short, it is an Android phone that wants to stand out more as a Samsung made and operated phone. Samsung is now the undisputed leading vendor of mobile handsets and smartphones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

” As long as he was occasionally reminded, the senior leader could be quite scrupulous about designating his new ideas as something to be worked on now or something to be held for the next round of planning. – and also in terms of how it consumes organizational resources.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

While start-ups fail all the time, long-term investments create conditions that support the creation of viable disruptive entrants. It’s also worth assessing external variables that serve as early signs of longer-term change. Are venture capitalists making significant and lasting investments in your industry?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

As Bill Gates once famously said , “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” Next, build out a bonus structure that reflects the relative value in terms of pay for these metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. Processes and tools for understanding root causes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A day of heavy labor might produce a few bars of iron, 14 feet long and two inches on a side. He, his partners, and the American Company’s investors would control every stage of the operation, from mining on remote New Jersey mountainsides to selling metal bars in London. Franklin’s investigators reported in July 1768 that “Mr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It would create a “bully in the schoolyard” who could “cement the kind of monolithic monopolies that have plagued cable subscribers all along” and lead to a long-feared “media dystopia.”. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

A Dell-EMC study reveals significant differences in terms of willingness to trade privacy for services across countries and across different uses of digital applications; of 15 countries studied, Germans were most concerned about privacy and the Indians were the least. But it has a long way to go. privacy laws.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! Over the years, as I’ve tried to patiently persist and actively trust, I’ve found that God’s plan always unfolds for my long-term benefit, even if things get rough in the moment. What is that!?” As a man thinketh, right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Efficient, uniform operations are table stakes in the modern business environment. Having perfectly designed and executed operations is an impossible goal, but it is one we must continue to strive for. It’s hard enough to keep operations efficient inside a company, but new regulations can present special challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The list of "once-in-a-century" storms, floods, and droughts this year is too long to list. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

More advanced DSL using fiber-copper hybrid technology was rushed into operation, as were new fiber-to-the-home services from AT&T, CenturyLink and Frontier. In effect, they are learning to balance long-term objectives against short-term fee maximization. Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. It's better to accept that, in business, one partner rarely fulfills all your strategic needs. It can work, but it's rare.

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Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Jacobi went for a long walk in Riverside Park and happened to bump into Or Shani, CEO of an AI firm, Adgorithms. It was winter in New York City and Asaf Jacobi’s Harley-Davidson dealership was selling one or two motorcycles a week. It wasn’t enough.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” With that goal in mind, the greeting card and media company equipped members of its long-established online consumer communities of women advisers with a simple ethnography app, which they used to conduct a variety of projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Up until now, at least in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But it seems especially ironic that this is happening in the San Francisco Bay area, that one-time headquarters of flower power where entrepreneurs have long fashioned themselves as rebels and iconoclasts battling robotic rivals (Microsoft, IBM) and liberating workers from the hierarchical ways of corporate life. It makes it culturally cool.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. In many organizations, there are tell-tale signs of “faux pods” — teams that call themselves pods but don’t actually operate that way. Agile software development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. Farmers who used to trudge down long rows of cornstalk are now using FarmLogs’ satellite imagery and algorithms to turn raw agricultural data into powerful insights.

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