Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. Iger truly embraces innovation. He explains the thinking behind his habit of waking at 4:15 am.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. In the process, I too have learned that in every organization something works and change can be proactively and positively managed. William James. Take time to honor people for their contributions and acknowledge their individual talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. Pay-at-the-pump technology, now commonplace, makes the transaction quick and easy. One of their first course offerings in La Jolla was the "Targeted Innovation" course, and they wanted my help. And, oh yeah - the price of gas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. The CNO is the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company. What makes it work for our company?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. Google has created its own moonshot factory , to pursue game-changing technologies that may take years to pay off. We need to set our sights higher. Why We Need to Think Bigger.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. Ability to Implement New Technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. The strategy of promoting its technology helped Europe win this battle and gather the spoils in growth, profitability, and employment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. So why has Apple not sued Google?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. 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?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. Despite bold proclamations of industry transformation, legacy technologies often last for a very long time. Western Union, the day's leading telegraphy player, declined to invest in the new technology. This isn't unusual. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Who is their Salman Khan ?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. The idea of making a business climate more attractive is not new. But it is much more than that. While the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. The Case of IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

I wanted to see if there was a method to that magic, since it’s so critical for organizations to keep innovating and reinventing if they want to survive over the long term. In a 2005 speech to Apple developers, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh would no longer be using the PowerPC processor and would shift to the Intel platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Netflix founder Reed Hastings, for instance, always wanted to do on-demand video, but the technology infrastructure wasn’t there in 1997, the year he founded the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're a manager of a large business, you know the challenges involved in retaining talented people, guiding their progress toward important objectives, and having them feel a deep sense of engagement with the organization. Regardless of your technology framework, don't make the tool or the interaction overly complex or artificial.

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