Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Other surveys state that change initiatives flounder because companies lack the skills to sustain change over time. David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. . Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Beth Galetti: Amazon is where smart, passionate people come to obsess about customers and innovate on their behalf. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is an except from Jan-Benedict Steenkamp’s Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History , New York: Fast Company Press. Ingvar Kamprad, the charismatic founder of Ikea, built the company on a highly discrepant, idealized vision, laid out in his “Testament of a Furniture Retailer.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Key players in 3D displays include most of the top display makers in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in addition to several startup companies with unique technologies. One company uses a miniaturized Light Field Projector Module (LFPM). That miniaturization is ideal for companies eager to reduce the size and weight of 3D displays.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. million times.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is through that shared understanding, training, and practice that the agility mindset is created.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Innovation hurts. Every organization I've observed that's serious about being innovative is filled with people in genuine pain — not just stress or anxiety or deadline pressure, and certainly not discomfort. Ideally, innovators go through pain so their customers and clients won't have to. That shouldn't surprise.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Focus on excellence. Instill discipline.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Being sharp means being succinct. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." Yet although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make them work.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Everything is in flux, and we should enjoy the ride as we may change jobs, companies, and even types of work (contract work, employment, entrepreneurship, etc.). With the shifting world of work, many employers recognize that this skill set will be extremely beneficial in the workplace as companies grow and transition. Self-assuredness.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When cross-departmental rivalries get heated and conflicts arise, I’ve frequently seen companies turn to team-building events or motivational speakers who talk about trust. There were misunderstandings across the group about what one another did and sharp differences in how each subgroup defined a successfully commercialized product.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

There are a range of causes for data misinterpretation , including insufficient domain expertise and lack of training in statistical thinking. Advanced NLG platforms — including, full disclosure, the one my company has built — start by understanding what the user wants to communicate. Call center coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. It's not a matter of training to choose option "A" or "B." For example, in Japan, the utility company believed its nuclear problem was water — not enough water to cool the reactors and ponds. We need to learn how to create option "C" to fit problem "Z.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Ratings on other countries and companies are more likely to improve than deteriorate. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. Upgrade skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Yet I still have a sense of anticipation because in every one of Friedman's books there are a handful of insights that are so clear, so sharp, so flat-out right that they frame how you look at the world going forward. But their insight applies just as powerfully to companies and their leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time. The typical corporate fix for the team dilemma is training.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. With a knife a trained surgeon can do something that a skilled villain or even an experienced butcher could never do. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. He or she can wound with the intention of healing. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? And it’s not just your company. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. So it is with innovation. So it is with innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What caused the average of the expected number of children to plummet was the sharp decline in the portion of people who planned to have any children, through birth or adoption. Now, FMLA applies to all public agencies, all public and private elementary and secondary schools, and companies with 50 or more employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

strong opposition to the Iran nuclear deal; a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries), many companies are still looking to invest in the region. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., Since Trump was elected, Dunkin Donuts has opened its first outlet in South Africa; U.S.

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