Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." And Creative Destruction points out that the global markets that spur innovations in art can also, eventually, build a demand that discourages further changes. "I

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation. Thanks for adding to the conversation. Results matter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. But then, in 1942, Schumpeter reversed himself and argued that big companies had more ability and incentive to invest in new products. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result was multiple product launches and more than 10 years of limited or no success in the connected home space. But products often fall short of these high expectations.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. Doing Things as We Always Have. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I love the innovative structure. The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). I love the mix of gritty realism and humor. I love the dialogue.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Take Cisco, for example.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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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. One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The most effective way to build a culture of transparency begins with those in leadership positions. It is the responsibility of the leadership team to develop an atmosphere in which there is balanced accountability and continuous improvement and this is everyone’s shared duty. Leaders must create a no-blame culture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. And that is the remarkable thing: during his tenure, Apple brought amazing products to the world, while also achieving out-of-this world financial performance. Hid did it all.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

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