Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Previously I’ve written about how relational disconnection between NASA engineers and senior managers contributed to the fatal accidents of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. Now would be a smart time to infuse the organization’s culture with attitudes and actions that foster connection, energy and enthusiasm.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Yu-kai Chou has been a regular speaker and lecturer on gamification around the world for organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Gamification Summit, the Innovation Center in Denmark, and many more. The Gamification Summit, the Innovation Center in Denmark, and many more.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2022

They highlight the often crucial role nonprofit organizations play in the fashioning of the rules and regulations that govern us. This process can be effective, so long as those organizations aren’t being themselves influenced by corporate donors.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 27, 2013

Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He was knighted in 2003 for his contribution to [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2013

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the healthiest organizations are those in which pursuit of improvement is constant, tenacious, and collaborative.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) Early detection of cancer (toxicity due to the right people sitting in the wrong chairs) in an organization greatly increases the chances for successful treatment.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Fostering the formation of positive relationships in organizations is a topic that has been well examined. Positive energizers benefit their organizations not only by performing better themselves but also by enabling others to perform better. Why Innovation is not "Invented Here". . It is not an inherent attribute.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 11, 2021

Kevin Mitnick, arguably the world’s most famous hacker, brought the art of social engineering to mass attention with his best-selling 2003 book The Art of Deception , in which he outlines how deceiving individuals is so important to effective hacking. Taking action now.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These virtual environments are designed to be exact digital replicas of physical assets and allow organizations to rapidly test changes in the virtual world without having to undergo costly and resource-intensive changes in the physical realm. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

Several studies support that this connection that develops trust is the most or among the most significant factors affecting the performance of organizations. In 2003, Jeffrey Dyer and Wujin Chu studied buyer-supplier relationships among eight major automakers in Japan, Korea and the U.S. Money, governance, curriculum, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. This was nothing short of an innovation blackout — it reminded me of the 2003 blackout that shut down business throughout the Northeast for a couple days and then had everyone scrambling to make up for lost time.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Additionally taking time to know expertise and special interests of team members will all people to me matched to their capacity to complete the project tasks, as they are assigned.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". Then early results disappoint.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Organizations might recognize the interpretations and perspectives individuals and groups bring to learn with change effectively. By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

When I made the transition two years ago from working with a 100 year-old organization — one I had called home for almost eight years — to working with companies sometimes less than 100 hours old, I assumed I would see tremendous differences. One-third think about it but follow the template of how things were done in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

But there’s an often-overlooked factor that can make the difference between success and failure: a leader’s ability to go far outside the organization—mobilizing networks of critical expertise—to get help in solving problems. Outside the organization? Collaboration Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. For example, your skin is an organ. Meaningful prediction, hitting the trifecta, has also helped the organization see a reduction in cost per sepsis case. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

So one would think that, in light of this, boards of directors would be actively steering their organizations through the digital revolution, right? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of First, with the rise of the digital economy, we are entering a new era of managerial innovation with both opportunities and major risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again. Contact professors and student organizations directly in order to set up speaking and presentation opportunities in the classroom and on campus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. ” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. But Navy SEALs go uncomfortably beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the language of social innovation, it must have a well-thought-out "theory of change" (or "logic model"). If you have an innovative job-training program, for example, it must be clear why participants stay in the program, how it helps them acquire jobs upon graduating, and what promise it holds for improving the quality of their lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Some of us quite literally lead with another person – we co-lead a project, a team, or an organization with a peer. Other research suggests shared leadership can also lead to greater team interaction, increased collaboration and coordination, as well as novel and more innovative solutions. This isn’t a one-off conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Seabright also built highly effective partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. Since joining Coca-Cola in 2003, Seabright has helped facilitate hundreds of community water projects across the world. Random Hacks of Kindness ) and city building organizations (e.g., Concordia Summit ), hackathons (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Another study, in 2003 , found that 35% of 911 calls from long-term-care facilities for patients in cardiac arrest were for patients with preexisting do-not-resuscitate orders. Given the current fragmented state of health care, new innovative solutions are needed. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care. Here are our recommendations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. It is not about you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. Poss and his assembled team experimented with a variety of options and finally returned to — the Big Belly — an innovation that provides clear solutions to the problems he noted on the city street that day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle? Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization. Customize an improvement approach for your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

She mentions ROWE (for results-only work environment), the management philosophy developed by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson in 2003 to reduce workplace stress and work-life conflict, and to spur creativity and innovation at Best Buy, while also maximizing productivity and growth.

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