The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

New relationship allows GP clients to integrate Situational Leadership ® course with existing comprehensive leadership development solutions. Anchored by Situational Leadership ® content, these offerings prepare leaders to effectively handle performance-based opportunities or challenges, as well as to respond to ongoing change.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

AI is breaking down the limits that are inherent in traditional operating models to drive new value, growth, and innovation. The authors provide case studies from the travel industry to the retail, entertainment, and automotive industries. And this is especially important in a leadership context.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The research findings have travelled as far as the US and Sweden , and have triggered a massive public debate around the importance of management and leadership skills for the UK’s sluggish economy. Share what these new insights mean for you and your industry.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. I observed this power of mission-driven servant leadership multiple times during my career. took over leadership from their fathers. This is an excerpt. Serving Others.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

The use of underdog narratives is a popular leadership tactic that has been proven effective in motivating teams and organizations. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

“It is hoped this will inspire and encourage SMEs and mid-sized companies to harness their potential in becoming a major driver of sustainable and inclusive economic growth and innovation by focusing on several core dimensions of future readiness: sustainable growth, societal impact and adaptive capacity,” the authors conclude.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. The tight timeframe and “what must we all start working on” clause pushed people from platitudes like ‘working smarter’ or ‘being more innovative’ into concrete actions, including which sacred cow projects to stop. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In our world of excess everything, savvy innovators realize that less is actually best. The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing."

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Esparza emphasizes the importance of championing participation, personalized coaching, and celebrating diverse perspectives to foster innovation and mutual respect within the workplace. Providing opportunities for my team members to take on leadership roles and contribute towards achieving our shared goals is a cornerstone of my approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. Growth strategy Innovation' It’s also worth assessing external variables that serve as early signs of longer-term change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

In the automotive industry, another project I was a part of helped executives understand that the internal combustion engine is in decline and that the future will likely involve a new, challenging mix of electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and ride-hailing like Uber or Lyft. Scenario planning exercises require the same.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom. You can't resell that CD, legally.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Under Herb Kelleher’s leadership, the company became known for its sense of humor, irreverence, and focus on the employee. The organization is able to turn on a dime when necessary and adapt to changes in the external environment; Innovative. These characteristics give employees a sense of meaning just from being part of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Look around the corporate world, and you can find great examples of organizations also taking the "shared space" approach too so people can better collaborate and innovate. Take the community workspaces at Toronto's internationally recognized Centre for Social Innovation (CSI). It's about performance, not presence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. While learning the Ford organization, he could also learn how powerful competitors operated and develop his own skills free from the bubble of Detroit’s automotive society. Several executives in my study had the same experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Collaboration Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. That deal was supposed to protect America''s floundering automotive manufacturers, but it did nothing to help GM, Ford, and Chrysler become more competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It has also upgraded the skills of more than 1,000 incumbent workers in the health care, hospitality, property services, automotive services, and green industries. Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. in the December issue of the magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. To figure out how to effectively integrate software robots and digitization, executives can take some cues from the automotive industry. Start early to shift the leadership mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft? Not, really. Both have a chance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In contrast, the automotive industry has barely half the rate of digital reinventors. Fix leadership skills first.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

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