Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader. His book explains why that is true. With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn't come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

In my new book with Ronnie Chatterji, Can Business Save the Earth? Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Renewable energy in electricity generation. Innovation is more than invention.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2019

Here are some of my favorite takeaways from the book, The CollaborationImperative , by Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese: Across every organization lies hidden treasure just waiting to be discovered. It lies within your people —their ideas, their experiences, their focus, their energy. From ideas come innovation and new forms of productivity.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, a new book by Kamiar Mohaddes, Jeffrey B. Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

We spent many years interviewing and writing about talented people and teams for our new book The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed. They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. Diversity and complementary skill sets are key.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. Together, the husband-wife team have authored the new book, Brand Renegades: Our Fearless Path from Startup to Global Brand.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2019

For example, you might think that designing a product to solve your book closing is not possible. Most of the books kept shutting, wasting valuable time and energy as the students had to find the page again. So off they went to their Design and Technology Lab to experiment making prototypes. The Other Person.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2018

Guest post from Glain Roberts-McCabe: This year, I published my first book. When I was trying to think of a book title, I reached out to our community of ambitious leaders for advice. We’ve sped up technology and innovation but remain trapped in models, processes and working norms that were built in the early twentieth century.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. A smarter normal.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. Explicitly managing organizational energy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 30, 2016

This month brought the release of the new book, Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking , by Jim Dewald. "I Jim Dewald Dewald also believes that today's business leaders put too much emphasis on efficiency and commoditization rather than innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For instance, participants could be multitasking throughout it, or they could double-book them with other meetings or tasks. For the second task, they were asked to come up with an innovative solution to increase water conservation in California households. Such meetings are defined in a number of ways.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 19, 2014

" Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their book, The Enemy of Engagement. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Speaking Effectiveness: Solid Reasons to Moderate Your Energy by @KateNasser. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

In the excellent book American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company , Bryce Hoffman wrote about the lack of transparency, fractious business units, and a preoccupation with self-preservation that had come to define Ford’s culture. In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

He’s written on energy and the environment for the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal , Nature Energy , and other publications. The authors devote large sections of the book to countering climate doom with optimism and evidence that humanity can successfully address this urgent issue.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Any good book on “future thinking” should help you do just that. Think Like a Futurist by Cecily Sommers, is just such a book. Sommers claims that the four building blocks of all change are: resources, technology, demographics, and governance. Technology is the next and gives us the power to leverage ourselves.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Understanding how to tap your own entrepreneurial superpowers is the premise of The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed , a new book by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp. Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2019

I have a habit of reading a book a day, and my favorite subjects are history and biography. We have our own challenges in the here and now: business changes quickly and technology is constantly evolving. Even the sunniest people find it hard to keep up positive energy in a sour environment.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 5, 2011

"Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific new book, The Enemy of Engagement , coming out this month from Amacom. Note: Thank you to Amacom for sending me an advance copy of this book.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

One country that has been successful in developing hidden champions of its own is China, at least according to the latest book from IMD Business School’s Mark Greeven and Imperial College London’s George Yip. They utilize digital technology to disrupt traditional business models. Data economy.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 7, 2014

In his latest book Hacking Leadership , Mike Myatt explains how aligning organizational purpose with strategic imperatives and operational focus is the key to exceptional performance. 1) Sudden Crisis: Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, workplace violence, hostile takeovers, environmental spills, technology disruptions, etc.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

The atmosphere crackles with an optimistic, can-do energy. Here’s the good news: the potential for real innovation, growth, and new prosperity in the United States is vastly greater than the prevailing futureview suggests. We are in a time of massive, technology-driven, transformational change, pregnant with opportunity.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. That’s when I decided that it’s time to write a new book. Despite all of that, the best, most carefully crafted plans may fail miserably.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 24, 2018

Depreciative conversations are often described as exhausting and can leave people with low energy, feeling alienated and drained. Jackie Stavros is Professor at College of Management, Lawrence Technological University, Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Advisor at Flourishing Leadership Institute, and Associate at Taos Institute.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2019

" Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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How To Constraint Learning-by-Doing Report 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

" Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Constraint Learning-by-Doing Report Motivation 51

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Once a culture has turned sour, it’s hard to generate the goodwill and energy necessary to right the organization. If so, how?

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

In their book, Making the Impossible Possible, Leading Extraordinary Performance The Rocky Flats Story , Kim Cameron and Michael Lavine chronicle how in 1989, following years of complaints from workers, Unions and environmental regulators, the FBI raided the Rocky Flats Nuclear facility and shut it down.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

In fact, I have worked with some leaders who get their “energy” from working in crisis mode. With the huge menu of communication technologies available to companies, messages should be delivered in person, electronically in written, audio, and video, as well as the old fashioned way, printed hard copy. And it is a trap.

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