Both executives raise a problem with fixing research and development that should scare executives at less productive companies: Sometimes trying to fix things can just make them worse.
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Each has its own product-development and marketing executives.
The IT systems also reach as far as the design and product development teams, so executives have visibility into the entire process, from product design to sales.
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Many of the executives tasked with leadership development within corporations are well aware of this challenge.
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No wonder then that RHR International LLP, a leadership-development consultancy, recently has seen executives' requests for coaching rise when their employer picks an external leader.
At a time when the U.S. economy and the stock market are looking for a leg-up, corporate executives are leaving economic development opportunities on the table because they fail to invest, engage and learn more about how to connect culturally with this vibrant Hispanic consumer segment.
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Three years ago, at the twelfth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in Accra, I launched the Chief Executives Board inter-agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity.
But executives still need to invest in professional development.
So it is no surprise that most of its future investment will be in commercial-transport development, and that a string of top defense executives have been shifted to the commercial side of the house.
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The development project was kept closely guarded, even among Microsoft executives.
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A. in 1987, has instead wrested control of research and development spending decisions away from the divisions and centralized them with the executives at the company.
D. is the founder of Contemplative Leadership Development (CLD), a leadership and corporate culture resource for senior executives and their teams.
In February, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it was freezing executive pay for its top executives (CEO and CFO) and going forward would include sustainable development as a significant part of its performance-based bonuses.
Executives were indeed confident that this Smart Fortwo has made strides in the development of a vehicle that has been notoriously painful in the face of a pothole.
Technology and global thinking are changing so quickly that older executives want to catch up, says Lois Zachary, president of Leadership Development Services LLC, a Phoenix-based consulting firm that helps companies implement mentoring programs.
Experts say ambitious executives should pay closer attention to fixing flaws because businesses, after trimming leadership-development efforts during the downturn, have lately raised the bar on management performance.
Hilton Worldwide Inc. executives said that roughly 3% of the 560 Hilton-branded hotels currently under development in the U.S. are financed at least in part with EB-5 proceeds.
Mining4Life, made up of mining executives from different mining companies, sets its mandate as demonstrating a commitment to the development and social well-being of the communities where their mining companies do business.
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The development is in the form of six recommendations to be delivered to the International Cricket Council board from its chief executives' committee.
"Organizations in Asia that are growing aggressively simply can't find the senior executives that they need to underpin their growth, " says David Miller, vice president of business development at Duke Corporate Education.
Talking with Asus executives about their new baby, the picture emerges of a project where unusual resources were dedicated to rapid development and engineering, and unusually narrow margins and tolerances are built into the final product, in order to meet the requirements for size, weight and battery life.
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