Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Your team deserves it. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! I reprise it today for three reasons. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. Often, they are quietly discussed among team members. How does this work?

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Here is the research he cited : A 2004 Yale study found that a highly likeable sales rep will earn 40% more than an equally educated or experienced counterpart. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. Find a strong balance between coveted prizes that can be used for employee rewards, and a timeline that works for your team. Visibility. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

When you have a team looking up to you for guidance and instruction, it’s important to remain consistent in the way you lead. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. I work as a part of the team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. But this is rare.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. By 2016, clients dreaded the disruptive monthly releases such that one large client had to deploy a 70-person crisis management team to manage the fallout of each monthly release.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. From small business to large, executives confront a constant tension between managing what is and creating new growth. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. A robot can deliver items between workers and can become a tireless assistant to an employee or team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Yet many executives don''t make culture a priority. Every individual on every team in a company can strive, together, to deliver beyond what is deemed possible. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Trust in the senior leadership team is an important indicator of organizational health. Build trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard. Our recommendations for accomplishing this start with the top team’s commitment, and expands to include people throughout the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead. This helped ALL's executives do four things: achieve alignment, adapt to local circumstances, foster coordination across units, and make better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Many executives have never recognized this pattern of serial adoption of different approaches to what is essentially the same topic. Here's this new approach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Beyond looking silly, the much bigger risk — the risk to the business — is that when we throw terms around imprecisely, we risk introducing confusion into the strategy we're trying to execute.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Katie left Facebook a couple years later, but not before she and her team sponsored a challenge for the Creating Infectious Action class. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary. The opening sentence was “When Mark E.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

When former auto executive Lee Iaccoca titled a book, " Where Have All the Leaders Gone ?" Time away while accumulating new experiences can stimulate imagination and support innovation. What is the rest of the team doing? he was decrying the sorry state of leadership, not asking about particular places. Pauses refresh.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. This was also true for Michelle Hickox. ” Making a Plan to Put Family First.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But what about the kinds of jobs where measuring someone’s “output” isn’t about counting the number of widgets they produced, but rather it’s about how they managed a team or influenced others or helped people collaborate better? That’s not a system that promotes innovation.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. What Executives Really Need to Know about Employee Engagement Accenture, May 2011. Ten Steps to Build Real Start-up Team Engagement Forbes, featuring Louder than Words, May 2011. Economical Employee Engagement Human Resource Executive Online, January 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives. Make you more innovative. On average, my executive students answer this question in the twos and threes. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were. It can keep you informed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

“As a leader, you need to have a strong voice and you need to know when it’s time to listen,” says Amy Jen Su, co-owner of Paravis Partners, an executive training and coaching firm. ” Su had a client who was strong, passionate, and innovative. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move left many executives stunned. Instead of siloed specialists there are cross-functional teams that are coordinated with shared information. Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives. Her policies have won national acclaim.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

We also noticed from our analysis that during this time HBR associated failure with deterioration and the business cycle, worsening conditions, and team performance. It is much more dominated by the CEO, the board, the senior executives. There's clearly some sense of anxiety here about the potential for failure.

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