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Perspective: Yahoo’s Turnaround Efforts Are Straight from Steve Jobs’ Playbook: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartzs overhaul of the Internet pioneer is similar to the steps Steve Jobs took to save Apple when he came back ...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Brent Schlender, Internet, Branding, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Management, Yahoo, Apple, Carol Bartz, Yahoo turnaround, Larry Ellison, Carl Ichan
The Woman Driving Ford's Big Bet on Electric: As Fords new director of global electrification, its Nancy Gioias job to make sure the company delivers cutting-edge, fuel-efficient vehicles. In an interview with ...; Tags: Ford Motor Co., C-platform, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Ford Motor Company, Nancy Gioia, Smart Grid, Managing a Team, Bill Ford, Electric Cars, Kim Girard
A Car Guy's Electric Moment: As a third-generation GMer, Jon Lauckner is fiercely committed to restoring greatness to Americas biggest car company. The VP of global product planning and ...; Tags: Concept, Car, Vehicle, Concept Car, Battery, General Motors Corp., Car Guy, Volt, Gasoline Engine, Innovation, Car Industry, Prius, Lithium-Ion, Battery Cells, Chevy Volt, Hybrids, Fuel Economy, Bob Lutz, Virtual Technology, Detroit Auto Show, Jon Lauckner, as told to Cait Murphy, Jon Lauckner, as told to Cait Murphy
Can the Chevy Volt Recharge GM?: GM hopes the Chevy Volt will make the world once again see GM as an innovative company. Can one car really pull it off?; Tags: Car, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Electric Cars, Nissan, Automotive Industry, Fleets and Fuels, DeLorean, Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, Cait Murphy
The Chevy Volt: A Hybrid Unlike the Others.: GMs Chevy Volt is a hybrid like no other. We've compared the Volt and the top-selling Toyota Prius. The differences may surprise you.; Tags: Mph, Toyota Prius, GM?s Chevy Volt, GM, Chevy, Toyota, Volt, Prius, car, automotive, electric, hybrid, Staci Baird
Why MPG Isn't the Best Metric: Forget miles per gallon. What you really need to know is how much money it's going to cost you to get from point A ...; Tags: Car, Mile, Metric, Focus, The Decisive Moment, Richard Larrick, Ford Focus, Cash-for-Clunkers, Gallons per Mile, Fuel Efficiency, Cait Murphy
How GM Decided to Shoot the Moon: GM hopes its Chevy Volt revolutionizes the auto industry and reinvigorates the company. Heres how GM decided to bet $1 billion on a new ...; Tags: GM, Jon Lauckner, hybrid, electric car, automotive, decisive moment, management
How to Get Ahead: Act with Urgency: What makes a great leader? A Sense of Urgency, says Harvards John P. Kotter.; Tags: Marathon, Complacency, IBM Corp., Role Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations, GM, Kotter, leadership, management, BNET feature, urgency, Abby Ellin
Chip Conley: Should I Take My Burning Man Pics off Facebook?: When hotelier Chip Conley posted pictures from his Burning Man trip on his Facebook page, some of his employees complained that they were inappropriate ...; Tags: Facebook, Employee, Social Media, Photograph, Chip, Burning Man, Social Media Policy, Chip Conley, Joie de Vivre, Social Networking Policy, Twitter, Chip Conley, as told to Paul Sloan
How Three Project Managers Stayed on Track: Managing near-disasters is part of the job. Heres how three determined team leaders saved projects that had gone off the rails.; Tags: Team, Project Manager, Buisson, Synovus, TSYS, Telephony, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Management, Project Management, Colorado State Patrol, Democratic National Convention, London Heathrow Airport, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package
Lessons From the World's Best Project Managers: Project heads from GM, Nokia, Method, and Facebook pass on what they've learned from working on high-stakes projects.; Tags: Nokia Corp., Battery, General Motors Corp., Engineering, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Nokia, Method, Facebook, Deadlines, Project Management, Lindsay Blakely, BNET Feature Package
The Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Getting Things Done: How to launch (and successfully complete) complex projects in four chaos-free steps.; Tags: Project, Team, Project Manager, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, BNET Crash Course, Organization, Deadlines, Nokia, General Motors, Recession, Downturn, Managing a Team, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package
The Project Manager's Quick Guide to Getting Things Done: In every respect but title, your job is to manage projects usually with too little time and always with too few resources. Why ...; Tags: Project Management, BNET Feature Package, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Nokia, Method, Facebook
Reality Check: How Wall Street Sees Korn/Ferry: Research analyst Mark Marcon evaluates Korn/Ferry under Gary Burnisons leadership.; Tags: The Decisive Moment, Balance Sheet, Downturn, Korn/Ferry, Whitehead Mann, Gary Burnison, Balance Sheets, Leadership, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Headhunting, Wall Street, Acquisition, Merger, M&A, Mark Marcon, Robert W. Baird and Company, Cait Murphy
The Decisive Moment: A BNET Series: CEOs and other C-level executives are faced with difficult decisions every day that affect every part of the company. With The Decisive Moment series, ...; Tags: CEO, The Decisive Moment, Series, Bill Hawkins, Gary Burnison, Medtronic, Korn Ferry
The Headhunter Goes Hunting: Korn/Ferrys Gary Burnison focused on the numbers in acquiring Whitehead Mann during the downturn.; Tags: Acquisition, Korn/Ferry, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Balance Sheets, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Gary Burnison, Whitehead Mann, Headhunting, Downturn, Recession, The Decisive Moment
How Korn Ferry Got Married: When most other CEOs in the executive search fields were cutting back, Korn/Ferrys Gary Burnison went shopping. The key: trusting his gut as much ...; Tags: Whitehead Mann, Executive Search, Korn/Ferry, Headhunting, The Decisive Moment, BNET Feature Package, Acquisition, Downturn, Recession
Remote Working: Turning “Them” Into “Us”: Working with dispersed teams means everyone has to be on the same page. But more often than not, mis-matched expectations can create misunderstandings. Here ...; Tags: Social Networking, Team, Humans, Team Management, remote working, management, Facebook, NING, Sharepoint, Web meeting, telepresence, intranet, Wayne Turmel
Bill Hawkins: How I Made the Toughest Call of My Career: In an exclusive interview with BNET, Medtronics Bill Hawkins explains how and why he ordered the recall that shocked his industry.; Tags: The Decisive Moment, Medtronic Inc., Physician, Career, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Sprint Fidelis, Medical Device Manufacturing, Cait Murphy
Reality Check: Wall Street’s View of Medtronic: Once a runaway leader in innovation, the worlds largest medical device company has lately suffered from public mistakes and a drought of new products.; Tags: The Decisive Moment, Innovation, Medtronic Inc., Hawkins, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Raj Denjoy, Thomas Weisel, Medical Device, Cait Murphy

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