Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. Businesses striving to adapt and thrive amidst these changes must find innovative solutions to the matter of maintaining a robust corporate culture. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

New startups appear out of nowhere and challenge not only established companies, but entire industries. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In countless cases, leaders have missed opportunities to tap into the enormous potential associated with the development of character to create innovation and excellence. The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice. Now consider what enables high performance in organizations. 30, 2023).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. We are entering a new fluid state that will lead to an unprecedented period of innovation and transformation. Social apps.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

A LL COMPANIES begin with a vision. Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

How to Ignite Innovation. Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity. Everyone is Innovative .

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Analyze which areas of your operations could benefit the most from AI integration. By following the action items above, executives can chart a course that not only leverages the immense power of AI but also ensures that their businesses remain competitive, innovative, and ethically grounded in the age of intelligent machines.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2024

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. Closer employee alignment with business goals.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s not uncommon these days to see a company go from top performer to bankrupt. How do companies compete in this digital era ? High, president of the digital business advisory firm Metis Strategy , advises numerous companies and executives on how to compete in the digital era. Digital Leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. Closer employee alignment with business goals.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. And availability of merchandise is what allows a company to make a sale – or not. and it’s never the only answer.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Perhaps not.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

E VERY NOW AND THEN, a book comes along to give you the insights you need to see and understand the world you live in and how to thrive in it. Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. In other words, it’s more about what a company does than what it has.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

.” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? Quite the contrary, they are built for ongoing operations. Thomas Edison.

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CEO Blog

APRIL 8, 2011

I read a great book yesterday by Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani called Breaking Away - How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth - And Why Others Fail. I loved the title (although perhaps not the part about failing) since I think a large part of leadership is fostering innovation.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Only you , as a senior leader, have the power to direct your company to continuous and sustainable success,” says Scott K. Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader. His book explains why that is true. Look at your company strategy and see if the sales experience is in there. That’s your first step.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. I recently spoke with him about his research and book. . They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year? What parts of our operating model worked well during the height of disruption? If the way your company needs to show-up in the world has changed, it’s time to refresh or redefine the vision.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

How do companies handle horse-races among competing candidates—including family members—any one of whom may become the future heir to the throne? I’m so focused on CEO succession I even wrote a book called, “Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?” But what about real life? What motivates iconic business leaders?

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 26, 2014

Innovation is clearly a hot topic with many leaders today. It’s often seen as the major driver of a company’s success. Yet how exactly do you foster innovation within your company? Every day, we hear more leaders call for increased innovation from their organizations. They recognize what’s now obvious.

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CO2

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Their book, “The Everyone Culture,” is a true gift for those seeking to understand the transformational power of fostering personal and professional growth within an organization. People thrive when they can grow, and this growth shouldn’t be a sporadic event but an integral part of the company culture.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2019

Innovation has scarcely been as popular and trendy as it is today, but as Wired’s David Rowan pithily points out in his latest book, a lot of what passes for innovation is b t smothered in multiple layers of jargon and obfuscation that creates the impression that much is being done, but it’s largely a superficial veneer.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 5, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. Closer employee alignment with business goals.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As the need for mobility grows and environmental concerns rise, businesses are keen to optimize their fleet operations not only for cost-effectiveness but also for sustainability and efficiency. This long-term analysis can guide strategic planning, ensuring that fleet operations are always in line with business objectives.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Creativity is the starting point for all innovation, and most organizations rely on innovation to create a competitive advantage. Innovation is necessary for the successful development and implementation of new programs or better products. Where does it come from? Task motivation is the willingness to engage.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 11, 2012

What is it like to work for a high performing company? Hay Group’s High Performing Companies Norm provides an insider view. Our High Performing Companies Norm is based on survey data gathered from employees working in approximately 40 companies that are financial performance leaders. The Good News 1.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. What Polman clearly understood was that if you are kind to the planet and the communities in which you operate, that long-term success is inevitable.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice he argues that the most successful companies are those who are able to understand why customers make the choices they do. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Following are four focus points that smart companies use to reframe their thinking around digital. Smart companies are already doing two things that legacy based companies are not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2019

That small companies are better able to adapt to the changes society throws at them is one of those business truisms that scarcely warrants analysis. In Goliath’s Revenge innovation experts Todd Hewlin and Scott Snyder argue that there are six main factors that underpin this newfound defensive success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

Adams : We all look up to the great leaders among us—the men and women who seem to have a knack for creating inspiring visions of the future while building company cultures that bring out the very best in employees. These new organizational designs simply cannot boot up on the Reactive Operating System most leaders are running.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 17, 2012

I’ve read a lot of books on strategy. The best ones influenced my mode of operation as an executive of Jacobs Suchard , the maker of coffee and chocolate brands, Jacobs , Nabob , Toblerone , Suchard and Côte d’Or. In today’s world, Apple , Google and Facebook are the poster boys of transformational innovation. No big deal.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After reading my book about strategic pivoting , the CEO asked me to hold a strategic retreat to help the company restrategize its plans. Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings.

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