Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Since 2002, she has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition; and she’s been included in the "Top 100 Branding Experts" list to follow on Twitter @DebbieLaskeyMBA. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

Brand 50

Brand Tips Media Customer Loyalty 50

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." He began work on The Great Stagnation by wondering why growth rates for median wages were failing to keep up with either those for the highest earners or with gross domestic product.

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

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. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

Crisis 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

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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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Productive paranoia : 10Xers maintain hyper-vigilance, staying highly attuned to threats and changes in their environment, even when — especially when — all’s going well. This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. They make their bold, creative moves from a sound empirical base.

Uncertainty 81

Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. 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.

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Productive Paranoia. You must also create.

Skills 14

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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. You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

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. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Egos and working mannerisms did not produce the most productive workforce. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. Executives never stayed long.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). In effect, service was productized, which showed up in the higher margins earned. The CEC was dissolved.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

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.”)

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then. The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6%

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8