Eric Jacobson

JULY 16, 2017

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. James Dallas.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 6, 2017

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. James Dallas.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 22, 2015

There’s nothing more frustrating than to be given a goal by senior leadership only to realize that had they consulted your team, they may have developed a much more meaningful goal or altered the strategy completely to optimize the outcome. Lean Into Authentic Leadership. Leave the mask at home and let your real leadership show up!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Often referred to as pacesetters, companies that have chosen to embrace and engage cloud, analytics, mobile, and social strategies are cleaning the clock of their competitors who have chosen the path of cautious resistance or even abstinence. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott expresses his belief that the primary reason for the resistance seen in many companies to Deming’s ideas are that those in leadership positions are most concerned about maintaining what they have. He taught the Deming principles to his new company and they were readily embraced.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Those successes come from two primary factors: First, Intermountain developed an ability to measure, understand, and feed back to clinicians and clinical leadership detailed clinical variation and outcome data. . … Intermountain has been identified as a low-cost, high-quality provider.1

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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

APRIL 15, 2013

But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. That is leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Can the elephant dance again? Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. If the access of other executives is managed through the CHRO, a dysfunctional leadership team is not far behind. Resist the temptation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. One of the hardest things for business leaders to understand is that security teams face live adversaries who, despite headlines about “sophisticated” attacks, usually opt for the path of least resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. Should you explore new technologies that will disrupt current products?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. There are a lot of people that try to resist it, but the underlying economics will basically overpower the resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change. When I spoke to Glenn about his leadership style and what he learned as president and chief executive from 2000 to 2015, several things stood out. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. This is simple to say but difficult to do.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. but many lead global companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. Just as it is no surprise that coal-country politicians resist climate mitigation, there is a certain geographic logic to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S.

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