Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? Through low-cost sourcing and manufacturing?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. When Dave Ulrich, Kate Sweetman and I wrote The Leadership Code , we described two types of competencies- foundational and differentiating. First, a company must deliver consistent earnings as the table stakes for intangibles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

"Offers" usefully blurred categorical and cultural distinctions between "product" and "service" innovation. The more people talked, the clearer it became: "offers" was simply a better word and organizing principle for generating more innovative innovation scenarios. Language matters. Is that an opportunity?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

" This point really came home to me while reading, "The Leadership Code," By Ulrich and Smallwood. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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