Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a guest post by Kona Shen , Founder of GOALS Haiti , mentioned here. I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Moving the goal posts by arbitrarily raising and lowering expectations creates confusion, and is often an intellectually dishonest exercise. Nothing engenders confidence and creates a trust bond like delivering on promises made, and likewise, few things erode confidence and credibility like commitments not kept.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

We have to remember that the long-term goal of collaboration is strengthening our ability to work together [ Share on Twitter ]. business communication culture leadership Recent Posts assumptions change collaboration community expectations failure innovation learning shared purpose teamwork vision'

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. Thanks for the astute observations Mark.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Not innovation for the sake of innovation, but innovation that helps operators and improves guest experience. .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. He had a CEO of his own ego that kept him focused on the larger goals and visions – those that exceeded self-interest. thank you very much.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. In the basic resource sector, companies that can cooperate well with local communities and governments are much more likely to secure deregulation, which promotes innovation.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. ” and “Come home safe and soon!”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. Consensus isn’t the goal. Good input is.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, a team at a large financial services firm in her study displayed medium-high physical distance, low-medium operational distance, but high affinity distance, indicating potential issues there. What's the cost of such failures? Sobel-Lojeski has done a quantitative analysis, and her results are eye-opening.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The more partners, sympathizers, champions, allies, supporters, enablers, influencers, advisers, mentors, friends, and family you have helping you succeed, the faster you will achieve your goals. Make your goals known to those that can help you is of special importance I believe. Jeff [link] mikemyatt Thanks Jeffrey.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It shapes how we think about our goals or strategy, our organizational values, how we make decisions big and small, and how we respond to our environment. We often compare the typical experience of culture to operating a plane on autopilot. Organizations have standard ways of operating. That’s where innovation comes in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. There are other operational considerations. Rejecting mass advertising and favoring social media is part of what the company’s senior vice president of brand and community, Laura Klauberg, call its “hyper-local innovative approach” to building its brand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

James Bond might be the world’s best-known spy, but nowadays even an obscure international business traveler could face similar surveillance threats from a hostile foreign intelligence service or even a business competitor. In the parlance of intelligence operatives, this activity is called elicitation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. Design the service for the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

, I identified three primary sources of motivation in high-innovation companies: mastery, membership, and meaning. People can be inspired to meet stretch goals and tackle impossible challenges if they care about the outcome. People can be inspired to meet stretch goals and tackle impossible challenges if they care about the outcome.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. They want their teams to win this year, that is, to achieve their annual goals and objectives. When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Even operational efficiency was unaffected. He realized that the prime goal of the social media initiative should be to reinforce employees' positive feelings about the company, their colleagues, and their jobs. Enjoyment is well known to be a strong motivator of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. Make the CMO the “bonding agent” that connects the organization. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Sixth, a coworker quits, realizing that she''d rather be closer to her real family — that is, to people who are important to her, realizing she''ll never have that kind of bond with the people she sits with every day. Work beckons; Colin becomes a $40,000 salary surplus in the budget. So why is Hsieh making this move?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. The company shifted resources to its most lucrative markets, where two-thirds of the opportunity lay.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Relatedly, supervisors who reported higher levels of empowerment were seen by their subordinates as more innovative, upward influencing, and inspirational. Whether a document or a discussion, it will formalize the rules of engagement and operation in the handover of power. 2) Have an Agreement for Autonomy in Place.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. Being generous enough to share your career goals and aspirations gives you a larger sense of purpose in your own career. universities that year had at least one foreign-born inventor.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments. The good news is, your new commitment to listening will help you achieve your goal of producing better content. I will be looking out for more good articles from you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could accept lower returns in exchange for accomplishing social goals. With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The perception is that getting along with people is nice, but “nice-to-have” — secondary to the operation of the business. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders. They aren’t about computers, vehicles, machines and other “hard” equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. When a clear purpose is coupled with shared power, people can self-organize to reach the goal.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. I think not, and I’ll explain why. As a non-advidsor to CEOs there is much I am learning from you!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector. In the U.S., Financing the clean economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Investors in particular are starting to notice the massive risk to business and acting accordingly — see Barclays’ downgrading the bonds of U.S. Ten states have already hit the goal.) Third, and most important, business needs to change how it operates fundamentally. It’s not just the U.S. —

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