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Christensen on How to Measure Your Life

LDRLB

With that I picked up Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Lif e. Christensen is one of the giant minds behind strategy and innovation. For each chapter, Christensen begins with an explanation of a theory and outlines it’s application to the business world. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. In addition, fashion has become a larger part of our social media outreach.

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. 1) Have a grand vision, but a simple plan.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. .:) Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.