Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Leaders need to anticipate resistance early in the change or innovation process.”.

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Advice Quinn Schein Resistance 266

Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience, many companies view “growth” as increased top-line revenue or sales, additional product lines, or entry into new markets, for example. In order to develop a culture of continuous improvement there are two primary areas of focus: behavioral changes and a clear system to enable ideas for change.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” – Roger Allen A favorite pastime of those in the older generations is to lament the decline among the younger generations. Probably to no-one’s surprise, the Gen Y group also got the highest scores on innovation. The following is a guest post by Jack Zenger. In case you?re re worried about what?s

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They understand the need for talent and are effective at recruiting, deployment, development and retention of tier-one talent. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# It also requires knowing which questions to ask in order to quickly determine the action and timing that must be taken. I Think Not.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. DAVID: This has nothing to do with the book. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

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Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

I have come up with the following three key functionalities that make the iPhone imperative to the work product managers and product-marketing managers do every day: Camera: PMs often have ‘white-board’ conversations with development and other groups where they map out requirements and other valuable information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

I often find myself immersed in the perfect pacing of a well-constructed mystery, the flawless delivery of that once-in-a-lifetime monologue, the scale and grandeur of the next big blockbuster — I get so caught up in all of it, sometimes I forget that I generally go there to tell companies their businesses are in trouble.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Do you set the example by following the team, department or company guidelines without failure? Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 am said: – I learned we have RULES (1) I bet this was a boy! Reply A new Leadership Development Carnival « Lead on Purpose , on July 7, 2009 at 8:59 am said: [.]

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. The business case for diversity is clear.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But when executives delegate their discovery-related innovation tasks, the odds of them finding the surprising insights that often spur transformative-growth businesses decrease dramatically. This thought crossed my mind as I participated in a review session for an interesting new growth business that a large company was considering.

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Delegation Wiseman Rogers Participative 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them. Employees in American companies spend more than one-third of their time in them. Roger Schwarz. In fact, there were six different groups managing two different processes governing product development. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant. billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Yet often you’ll find that they’re not nearly as funny when viewed in different company. Rather than seeking to lead a passionate band of willing innovators and build a movement, they leaned on their authority to create wholesale change by forcing the unconvinced against their will. Yet conformity is never absolute.

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Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

.” The stampede to connect anything and everything in the home to a mobile app – a stampede that I’d argue has been driven by grossly inflated numbers and speculation – has the potential to lure companies into unfamiliar territory, with no guarantee of a safe or profitable return. I know because I’ve been there.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

Today’s teens are getting a completely different work experience than I did – and it’s better preparing them to be innovators. The need to be different is forcing them to innovate and diversify in ways that previous generations never did. The media is playing an important role in this shift.

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Entrepreneur Rogers Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

For the traditional producers of culture — the creators of movies, design, advertising, publishing, magazines, newspapers, and corporate R&D — this book will inspire new innovation and creativity. In assessing client value, most companies look at the money paid for their goods and services. Conversation-powered leadership.

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Roger Schwarz. That helps companies avoid pitfalls that can occur when people are less candid and don’t share their perspectives on how to best address issues. The openness and focused attention among team members fostered by videoconferencing enables innovation and creative solutions to emerge. You and Your Team Series.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Especially because companies are often so focused on protecting what they already have. In 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, I was in charge of an industry-recognized channel program for the company that was responsible for growing a $2M business to $180M business in 18 months. But there's one thing that may be even harder.

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Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. Developing the Global Leader.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I hear woes-of-the-middle tales from all kinds of leaders in all stages and sectors; innovators getting a new idea off the ground, real estate developers facing stalled construction, companies approaching foreign markets, and CEOs leading complex turnarounds. Persistence doesn't mean being pig-headed.

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Guidelines Real Estate Rogers Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

So in this article, I’ll walk through how we applied this approach to a particular product at a start-up, and how it led to large-scale adoption and, ultimately, the acquisition of the company. In this way, we drive innovation, and simultaneously introduce risk. We asked “Why do students develop resumes to find jobs?”

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Process Productivity Products Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

More than 30 years after Drucker’s talk at NYU, the level of complexity confronting us has only continued to increase—or at least it feels to most managers like it has increased, given the outdated models and processes that most businesses tend to use (as both Steve Denning and Roger Martin have eloquently explained).

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Or start earlier?

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Great CEOs possess what often appears to be a sixth sense or an almost instinctive feel for what the company needs to do to make money and remain competitive. Mark Oakes Good post, Mike!

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