Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

That's why a business leader is accountable first to customers, because they hold all the cards, and that's why when they pursue a business opportunity, they place investment in talent first, product innovation second, and business model third. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long. The choice is always yours.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TEST : pilot test new ideas and projects and welcome mistakes and failures that show up. Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. LISTEN and encourage fast feedback on results, concerns, no matter whose idea it is.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For a CCA to work, five elements need to be present: A common project: The main pre-requisite for a CCA to work is a common project, initiative, or the search for a solution to an existing problem within the company. Collaborative: CCAs are not solo pet projects, but require employees to work together.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. original in their ideas, their creative and innovative thoughts go beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The VC industry has failed to innovate. Investors should run, not walk away, from such funds.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. What are the steps that you have taken during your career to become a more strategic thinker?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Jeff Bezos.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. Define your role and career path. ” Create separate spheres immediately. Have a backup plan.

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. I guess it’s all in how you define “interesting work.” — Andrea Ovans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. And you do not see others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As co-CEO of the design and architectural firm Gensler , I’ve spent my career designing workplaces and studying the link between design and business performance. Teams can also create whatever workspace layout best supports their project, moving desks into a circular break-out space or a long row of desks, for example.

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Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. They don't want job security, they want career fluidity.". They foster innovation. By attracting a variety of members from myriad backgrounds and industries, the looser connections of these constantly churning spaces also appear to have innovation advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Her HBR book was named a best business book of 2012 by Fast Company, she gave an acclaimed TED talk, and she was given the Thinkers50 “Future Thinker” award in 2013. I asked her how she decided to blow up her life mid-career — again — and make the leap. Mid-Career Crisis. And then… Paris.

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