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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Some had already made the transition from their day jobs or sold their business, some were near a transition period, and others were planning to continue in their present occupation for several years. Now is a great time to start planning. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The event brought together some 250 entrepreneurs and investors for a series of panels, round tables, and a business plan competition. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5 An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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