Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2017

The message is this: the role of leadership and the practice of change are intertwined. Effective leaders facilitate change; effective change takes good leadership. But, is there a component of leadership that does not change…that stands pat and is unwaveringly constant? The Jewel of Leadership Character. My dad resigned.

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Banking Bottom-up Charisma Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The days of the ‘Great Man’ theory of Leadership – where one sole leader rules over the masses from their ivory tower, are long gone. A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. This isn’t a one-off conversation.

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Team How To Commitment Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs. Consider Sodexho.

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Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. For many companies, this means extending their repertoire beyond the classical approach to strategy that relies on securing durable advantaged market positions through cost leadership or differentiation.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

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Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. But while a dedicated lab expands a restaurant’s capacity for R&D, innovation more importantly has to be embedded in the DNA of the organization.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8