Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

The difference, says Harvard professor Robert Kaplan, is “how they deal with these periods of confusion and uncertainty. Managing Your Time. Know and learn to manage your strengths, weaknesses, and passions, not only to bring out your best, but also to create this same environment and aspiration among your staff.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

Key highlights from the interview: The research that Dr Robert Kaplan, myself and our colleagues at the Palladium Group have done over the years indicate that there are five common principle s that are found in successful companies. They need to understand that managing strategy is managing change and they may need to be the change agent.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 19, 2012

Soren Kaplan in Leapfrogging Kaplan offers a “finding your future [.]. Preparation prevents reaction. Prepare for future failures so you won’t end up caught in the snare of fear. One way to combat our fears is to hit them head-on.”

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LDRLB

AUGUST 29, 2012

Why is predictability and control the unquestioned holy grail of management? Every management book on Amazon with the word “surprise” in its title is about how to prevent the phenomenon. Why do most leaders avoid uncertainty? Why do organizations hate surprises? Take a look, you just might find a surprise.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In her timely new book, " TALENT WANTS TO BE FREE ," Professor Orly Lobel challenges conventional wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity to reveal how our "War for Talent" is backfiring on our quest for innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 25, 2012

That's why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. Businesses hate uncertainty. New Mindsets are the Missing Link.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas John Butman What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial […].

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The new book, The 10 Laws of Trust , is a timely and critical guide to investing in high-trust relationships and reaping remarkable gains in reputation and the bottom-line. Trust works to everyone's benefit," explains book co-author Peterson. "It Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

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LDRLB

JULY 19, 2012

To celebrate the upcoming launch of LDRLB contributor Soren Kaplan’s new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs , we’ve arranged for a free webinar for the LDRLB community. Check out the details below and register today. Leading Disruptive Innovation. When: July 26, 2012. About Soren.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

What makes Six Disciplines for Excellence different from other business improvement books? ”We interrupt our coverage of meaningless business books to review a book that made the cut: Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst. “But the book doesn't stop there! ” (David Rothacker, Rothacker Reviews).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 30, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 19, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Untapped […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. Kaplan and David P. Robin Speculand’s latest book is Excellence in Execution – HOW to Implement Your Strategy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Pictures: Top – In front of the Trinity Rep theater this AM was the Delivering Happiness Bus that promotes Tony Hsieh’s book of the same name.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval write the following in their book, The Power of Nice , A Yale University School of Management study found that cheerfulness and warmth spread far more quickly through an office than irritability and depression. The best way to spread these good feelings?

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Decide What's Important ). Discipline IV.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s Book (pages 140-141), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. His books Relevance Lost , coauthored with Robert S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

In his book, Better Under Pressure , Justin Menkes, interviewed Ralph Larsen, retired CEO of Johnson and Johnson. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Thornton is the author of numerous articles and 13 books on management and leadership. and Kaiser, R.B. Developing Versatile Leaders.”

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Indeed, his research showed that “good-to-great” CEOs generally received very little attention, whether in the mainstream press or in his interviews for the book. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Decide What's Important ). Discipline IV.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Leading disruptive innovation requires managing incredible levels of uncertainty. Adaptive Planning.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Examine Your Talent Acquisitions and Talent Management Systems – Reduce unintended bias in formal systems and processes.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2011

Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment Robert Simons Harvard Business Press (2005) Eloquent and Essential Practicality Unlike subtitles of so many other recently published business books, the one for Levers of Organization Design correctly identifies its author’s primary objective: (..)

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2013

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Examine Your Talent Acquisitions and Talent Management Systems – Reduce unintended bias in formal systems and processes.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. There’s no shortage of articles, books, and talks on the subject. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. Change management. Costs reduced?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

APRIL 21, 2009

I was thinking about American Idol when I read the just released book, hot off the presses - "The Power of Small" written by my 2 fave advertising gurus - Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They have done it again with their 3rd book! You know them. They're the Aflac Duck girls (created the duck, you know).

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

It’s a bad story: “The last guy who managed our money lost 40% of our portfolio. Dan is also the author of 5 books, including the #1 business best-seller, Sales Autopsy (Kaplan, 2006). The buyers respond by sharing a story. So we couldn’t afford to go on a Mediterranean cruise we planned.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

As the beach-read season comes to a close, check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right. By Robert Kaplan. By Dick Grote. What to Ask the Man in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: What You''re Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. By Robert Steven Kaplan. If you''re ready to face this question, this book can help you change your life. Managing yourself' It takes courage and hard work. By Michael D.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Three years ago, Michael wrote a very important book underscoring this very point, Fired Up or Burned Out. As Michael and I started conversing, the importance of connections to help reframe, reform our world was/is a constant theme. It was inspired from his ow [.].

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