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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/1/13)

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Bob''s blog entries "5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who ''Have it all''" "Don’t Sandwich Negative Feedback" "How to Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics" "How to Tell Your Company’s Story" "Lessons From Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg On How To Succeed In Business By Really Trying" "The Most Popular Articles (..)

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Innovation Execution

Coaching Tip

Source: Vijay Govindarajan: Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization. Related articles. How Good Are You in Managing Office Politics? The challenge is not just to make innovation happen, but to do so while simultaneously excelling at ongoing operations. The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks".

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. The article urged forward-looking CEOs to manage reinvention with a "three-box approach": Box 1: Manage the present. Box 2: Selectively forget the past.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. If the issue is leadership behavior, the coaching clients are given a fair chance and they are motivated to improve, the process described in this article will almost always work.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people. Further Reading.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. must contain health care costs, yet several factors make it difficult to adopt radical delivery innovations like the ones we outline in this article: a fee-for-service reimbursement model, malpractice suits, and lack of price transparency, to name a few. His life was set. Further Reading. Add to Cart.