Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered. Debriefing has many benefits. But not before we learn from it.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Hold everyone accountable. It has to be an all-hands-on-deck engagement.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership. What Alex’s success exemplifies is the importance of “learning agility”: a set of qualities and attributes that allow an individual’s to stay flexible, grow from mistakes, and rise to a diverse array of challenges.

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Agility Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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