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Work-Life Flexibility Is a Challenge Up and Down the Pay Scale

AOM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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Scaling Ideas for Impact | Jennifer Dulski

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Using technology to take ideas to scale. An interview with Jennifer Dulski about taking ideas to scale through publishing, social media, and technology. Thought leaders are often torn between scale and depth. Scale allows you to reach a large audience, while depth allows you to have massive impact.

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Scaling Nonprofit Revenue Marketing

Spotting Ideas with the Potential for Scale | Ward Kampf

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An interview with Ward Kampf about vision, strategy, and execution for taking ideas to scale. So I’m looking forward to this conversation about how do you spot ideas, how do you identify which ones have potential and then help them to scale. I’ve done this out of my van and we think we can take this and scale it.

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Communication and the Relationship to Taking Ideas to Scale | Richard Newman

Peter Winick

JUNE 27, 2022

Communication and the Relationship to Taking Ideas to Scale An interview with Richard Newman about non-verbal communication and the role discomfort can play in personal growth. Imagine being 18, and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more?

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Research: When Should Startups Scale?

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Silicon Valley often touts rapid scaling as the best strategy for achieving startup success. However, new research reveals that scaling early, particularly within the first 12 months, significantly raises the risk of startup failure, especially for two-sided platforms.

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Scaling a Midsize Startup

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2024

The “mighty-middle” segment of startups falls between venture-scale unicorns and small businesses. These startups aim for valuations in the high single-digit to high tens of millions within 5-10 years, targeting midsize niches with significant growth potential.

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Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder Journey

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Is there a downside to scaling two businesses together, rather than focusing on each one separately?

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Scaling Real Estate Change Management Manager

It’s Time to Reimagine Scale

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By challenging the conventional wisdom that bigger is always better, we can create space for a healthier, happier economy.

Scaling

Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

Speaker: Kjerstin Greene and Adri Glover

HR teams can be small and mighty, but it requires smart tactics to scale your reach. If you’re an HR professional with little or no additional support, or in a non-HR role juggling HR tasks with other responsibilities, you likely wear many hats – from recruitment and onboarding to benefits and employee engagement.

Strategic Planning

How can you transform your business from high touch low scale to low touch high scale?

Peter Winick

MAY 10, 2024

the business that they’re in when you think about it is really high touch and low scale. So keynote speaking: high touch, low scale. Being an advisor, being a coach, being a consultant: high touch, low scale. What’s low touch and high scale? You can only do one at a time. Love to hear your thoughts.

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To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination. Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water.

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Taking a Book to Scale | Nick Gray

Peter Winick

MARCH 16, 2023

Creating diverse products from a book to reach scale. Using Nick’s book as an example, Peter walks through the process of taking a book from shelf to scale. Another component to taking a book to scale is moving the contents to versatile offerings. It’s usually some sort of a sliding scale based on volume and usage.

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Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

Designing software that’s resilient against the most common cyberattacks is possible — and significantly more cost effective than dealing with the fallout of a hack.

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Scaling Software

AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity.

Diversity

How Glossier Maintained Brand Integrity While Scaling

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A conversation with Harvard Business School senior lecturer Jill Avery on the role marketing plays in scaling a business.

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Scaling Marketing Media

How to Scale a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2024

A conversation with HBS senior lecturer Jeffrey Rayport on the biggest stumbling blocks to long-lasting success.

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Scaling a Startup in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

How to lay the strategic foundations for long-term success early on to avoid flaming out.

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Scaling Marketing

Making Impact on Your Business with a Book | Tamsen Webster

Peter Winick

JULY 1, 2022

An interview with Tamsen Webster about writing a thought leadership book, and taking her ideas to scale. Creating new lines of business by writing a thought leadership book. You’ve got big. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Taking Ideas to Scale Through Thought Leadership with Rhea Wessel and Peter Winick – Clip 2

Peter Winick

JUNE 20, 2023

Source: Taking Ideas to Scale Through Thought Leadership with Rhea Wessel and Peter Winick – Clip 2 Peter Winick was a guest for the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs’ Thought Leadership Writing Incubator 2023 hosted by Rhea Wessel, Founder and CEO – Institute for Thought Leadership.

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Scaling Effective Managers: Pendo reduces turnover by 21% while onboarding 163 managers

15Five

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Scaling Growth, Engagement, and Retention Rapidly scaling any company while maintaining engagement and retention is a daunting challenge for HR and People teams. We are rapid growth, we are scaling revenue, we are building product features, we are innovating. Pendo is a trailblazer in product experience platforms.

Onboarding

Onboarding Scaling Manager Performance Review

Scaling Coaching

Agile42

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

You may ask yourself if scaling coaching in your business is as simple as transitioning from a single successful agile team to an entire organization. Continue reading Scaling Coaching at agile42. – Spoiler: none of them are! Coaching is like flying a plane.

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When Scaling Your Start-Up, Don’t Lose What Makes It Special

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2024

Focus on preserving three things: strategic business intent, a strong connection to customers, and a stellar employee experience.

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Making a Business Case with Your Book Proposal | Matt Holt

Peter Winick

MAY 19, 2022

Crafting a solid book proposal and business plan for going to scale. An interview with Matt Holt about best practices for book proposals and publishing. It is easier now than ever before to get a. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Companies Are Scaling Back Sustainability Pledges. Here’s What They Should Do Instead.

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2024

In the past 18 months, many companies have significantly retreated from their sustainability commitments. High-profile examples include Tractor Supply Co., which eliminated jobs focused on diversity and withdrew its carbon-emissions goals, and Canada’s major oil sands companies, which removed decarbonization goals from their websites.

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Scaling Government Diversity Accounts

3 Ways to Successfully Manage Large-Scale R&D Projects

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. Drawing from a recent significant build at Lattice, an HR software startup, three key factors emerge as essential for success in managing large projects.

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The Enterprise Thought Leadership Blueprint | Peter Winick and Bill Sherman

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Moving beyond theoretical discussions, Winick and Sherman explore the practicalities of scaling thought leadership within corporate landscapes. When scaling our thought leadership for the enterprise level don’t get fixated with the end-user. Peter Winick: People that have the scales and the model and all those things might not.

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Fast Casual Food Pioneer Ron Shaich Explains How to Find a Niche — and then Scale

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A conversation with the founder and former CEO of Panera Bread and current chairman of Cava.

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Khan Academy: A Case Study in Scaling a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman on creating a focused strategy for growth.

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Scaling Operations Manager

How to Be Systematic About Adopting AI at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. Winsor lays out a simple five-step plan — assess, learn, experiment, build, scale — that can help companies get serious about adopting AI.

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The Four Elements of Thought Leadership | Bill Sherman

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A content library should be well organized and well documented, so that it can support your thought leadership in reaching scale. And if you need help scaling organizational thought leadership, contact Thought Leadership Leverage or reach out to Bill Sherman on Linkedin! That’s about taking an idea to scale, once it’s solid.

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Scaling Software Marketing Deliverables

How to Deploy and Scale Generative AI Efficiently and Cost-Effectively - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM AWS & NVIDIA

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Sponsor content from AWS & NVIDIA.

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3 Management Myths That Derail Startups

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2024

In their work with more than 10,000 startup leaders across 70 countries, the authors identify three common management myths among startup leaders looking to grow their companies: the myth of scaling without hierarchy, the myth of structural harmony, and the myth of sustained heroics.

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Manager Scaling

Designing a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The results are predictable: inefficient and difficult-to-scale efforts at managing AI’s ethical, reputational, and legal risks; wasted resources; and slowed innovation. 5) Do you have personnel to ensure the program is rolled out, scaled, and maintained properly? 3) Have you designed RAI metrics, such as KPIs and OKRs?

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It’s Not a White Paper, It’s a Platform | Kasey Lobaugh

Peter Winick

MARCH 27, 2023

If you are just closing your eyes and hoping your white paper will go to scale… You might be going about it the wrong way! Kasey shares that scale is the biggest challenge most organizations face and how they are training people across the business to fully grasp the ideas and be able to take it into the world in actionable ways.

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Scaling Diversity Engineering Education

Human-Centered Leadership | Renee Moorefield

Peter Winick

JUNE 13, 2024

Exploring the ‘Be Well, Lead Well Pulse Assessment’ A conversation with Renee Moorefield about developing her IP from years of research and scaling it for leaders, teams, and organizations. Wisdom Works is now scaling its impact by working with global organizations, especially in the food and consumer goods industries.

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6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2024

Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

Successfully launching and scaling a new business venture has never been easy. When fundraising dries up and uncontrollables become more prevalent, the challenge is even greater.

Government

Government Scaling Marketing Manager

Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How should the fashion company scale its adaptive fashion line?

Inclusion

Inclusion Scaling Marketing Manager

Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

How to scale a technology company with a mission to improve patient outcomes in surgical procedures.

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation Operations Scaling Organizational Development

Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search — Yet

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There are major practical, technical, and legal challenges to overcome before tools like ChatGPT reach the scale, robustness, and reliability of Google.

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How Startups Can Turn Failure into Success

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If you’re scaling a startup, this episode is for you.

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Scaling Marketing

Becoming More Collaborative When Your Impulse Is to Be Territorial

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, when you’re looking to scale your leadership and reach the C-suite, this “fend for yourself” mentality will stop you in your tracks. The author presents four strategies to help senior leaders redefine “winning” as a shared goal.

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Scaling Manager

Azeem’s Picks: How to Practice Responsible AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Algorithms can cause unexpected harm on a massive scale. How do we make sure they don’t?

Scaling

Work-Life Flexibility Is a Challenge Up and Down the Pay Scale

Scaling Ideas for Impact | Jennifer Dulski

Trending Sources

Spotting Ideas with the Potential for Scale | Ward Kampf

Communication and the Relationship to Taking Ideas to Scale | Richard Newman

HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Research: When Should Startups Scale?

Scaling a Midsize Startup

Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder Journey

It’s Time to Reimagine Scale

Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

How can you transform your business from high touch low scale to low touch high scale?

To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors

Taking a Book to Scale | Nick Gray

Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale

AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

How Glossier Maintained Brand Integrity While Scaling

How to Scale a Start-Up

Scaling a Startup in Emerging Markets

Making Impact on Your Business with a Book | Tamsen Webster

Taking Ideas to Scale Through Thought Leadership with Rhea Wessel and Peter Winick – Clip 2

Scaling Effective Managers: Pendo reduces turnover by 21% while onboarding 163 managers

Scaling Coaching

When Scaling Your Start-Up, Don’t Lose What Makes It Special

Making a Business Case with Your Book Proposal | Matt Holt

Companies Are Scaling Back Sustainability Pledges. Here’s What They Should Do Instead.

3 Ways to Successfully Manage Large-Scale R&D Projects

The Enterprise Thought Leadership Blueprint | Peter Winick and Bill Sherman

Fast Casual Food Pioneer Ron Shaich Explains How to Find a Niche — and then Scale

Khan Academy: A Case Study in Scaling a Start-Up

How to Be Systematic About Adopting AI at Your Company

The Four Elements of Thought Leadership | Bill Sherman

How to Deploy and Scale Generative AI Efficiently and Cost-Effectively - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM AWS & NVIDIA

3 Management Myths That Derail Startups

Designing a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist

It’s Not a White Paper, It’s a Platform | Kasey Lobaugh

Human-Centered Leadership | Renee Moorefield

6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart

Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment

Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive

Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search — Yet

How Startups Can Turn Failure into Success

Becoming More Collaborative When Your Impulse Is to Be Territorial

Azeem’s Picks: How to Practice Responsible AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

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