Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Ross School of Business and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance , has studied organizations that are downsizing or closing and he says that, instead of abandoning best common practices, the most skilled leaders reinforce them. Second, do small experiments with alternative business models.

Management 14

Management Edmondson Crisis Uncertainty 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Rogier’s strategy since 2000 had been to grow through acquisitions and to give a long leash to all the businesses he’d bought.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Smart leaders make New Year resolutions and set quarterly milestones, charting progress against ambitious plans and goals. Aravind has become a business example of compassion, as well as proof that wise leaders can radically change the world by following their North Star. His story also flouts many conventional rules of business.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our analysis suggests that big companies should focus instead on what we call "innovation at scale" — that is, achieving repeatable and sustainable organic growth from new products, services and business models that build on the core business. Ask people simply to "innovate" and the likely response is a mishmash of ideas.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.”

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The answer is to create networks of organizations that can act together to reach common goals. But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. They agreed on a vision for the future of agriculture which reflected the shared goals and values of their emerging network. Cultivate a shared vision for change.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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