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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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cross-disciplinary training: On a regular basis have members of different departments lead instructional discussions on their particular specialty. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A recent paper from UCSB found that the return on being good at math has gone up over the last few decades, as has the return on having high social skills (some combination of leadership, communication, and other interpersonal skills). But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements.

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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 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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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Another ripe area for innovation is knowledge management and the impact of social media.

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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. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

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. In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Consider Sodexho.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. In the meantime, the competition is managing their own innovation and coming up with similar or better improvements to their own products. No innovation remains innovative for long. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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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. 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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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. And you are right about some of the coach training schools.

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