By Francis If you are a top executive, you face a unique challenge: The weekly demands on your time regularly outstrip 168 hours. Yet, as you know, most CEO’s receive little formal training in time management on their journey to the C-Suite. Fortunately, new research can help close this gap. Harvard’s Michael Porter and Nitin...
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How to Scale Up a New Innovation
By Francis Sometimes, good ideas for new products and services include the seeds of their own destruction. How can this problem be discovered and prevented, thereby ensuring the success of your latest, greatest idea? As a company innovator you are excited. Your original concept has taken off with higher-than-expected sales or conversions. Customers are buying...
How New Managers Prevent Email Overwhelm
By Francis When the excitement of a promotion wears off, newly elevated managers sometimes struggle. Often, they blame their new responsibilities, but this limited view dooms them to failure. Instead, success comes from expanding specific skills which were once suitable but are now inadequate. Email is a case in point. All of a sudden, as...