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. ” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “But the book doesn't stop there!

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Kaplan and David P. Robin Speculand’s latest book is Excellence in Execution – HOW to Implement Your Strategy.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

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. These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune.

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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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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

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. These new insights shape our future actions that are even better calibrated to the needs of the market. Boundary Pushing.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

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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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

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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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. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution. By Dick Grote. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

There’s no shortage of articles, books, and talks on the subject. If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. For example, Gary Kaplan, president of XL Catlin’s North American Construction insurance, got his division started by formulating some major strategic goals.

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The organization now has guidelines and data on over 100 product categories from bread, books, and computers to clothing, TVs, and toys. Rob Kaplan, Director of Sustainability at Walmart, gave an example of this important difference using electronics. Sustainability Supply chain Market research Retail & Consumer Goods'

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Professors Steve Kaplan at the University of Chicago and Morten Sorensen at Copenhagen Business School have analyzed over 2,600 ghSMART assessments of candidates for C-suite positions and concluded that boards often overweight amicability in their hiring decisions. Wanting her team to feel valued, she led by consensus.

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CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

It only took me about three seconds to decide what to wear on the first day in my new gig as strategy director at Genuine Interactive, a digital marketing agency (jeans and a wrinkled linen shirt, duh). Deciding what books to take was a bit trickier. Need proof?

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Forrester Kaplan Advice Team 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

One business-school professor actually wrote a book called, Everything I Know about Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead.). Organizations that do something genuinely creative, he says, are “market makers”—they create a one-of-a-kind presence, a unique offering, unlike what anyone else can do. That, to me, is what Gone Nutty!

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Innovation Kaplan Insurance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The team was charged with conceiving of all aspects of the new product’s design, packaging, marketing, and distribution strategy. This product was vital to Jim’s company, because the market share of several of its core products was eroding, and senior executives urgently needed to find new avenues for growth. Adapted from.

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Project Advice Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Three months after launching the small-business-accounting program, Intuit captured almost 70 percent of the market.

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