Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. Can you develop people remotely? All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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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. In harsh economic times, the gut reaction of many companies is one of prudence and cost control: to take short-term actions that reassure shareholders and citizens. sascom Magazine.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, suggests using activity-based management techniques to recognize which business activities and which customers are causing a drain on your bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments. But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. But that’s only one side of the story.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are you the type of leader that passes “germs” to his team and organization with negative comments about individuals and management?

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. You need to know the truth about how customers feel about your service, or why your company has difficulty with vendors. An example: the experts in key card computing were displaced by new technology.) In the process, he became an expert in areas outside his specialty of management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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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. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Roger Schwarz. In fact, there were six different groups managing two different processes governing product development.

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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. What benefits have you seen from having a more diverse company?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

“M&A is a mug’s game,” Roger Martin writes in the June issue of HBR , “in which typically 70%–90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures.” company, but perhaps Microsoft thinks it can provide more patient capital, shielding LinkedIn from the short-termism of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Roger Martin. Big Data's Management Revolution. Maxwell Wessel. Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. For many managers, however, the more difficult day-to-day challenge is “getting to no” which is what we call the process for agreeing on what not to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

These are real examples from Ikea , Ray-Ban , and Cover Girl of how companies are currently using augmented reality (AR). Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies. The study is forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Management. While it is similar in some aspects (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In his book Collision of Wills , University of Chicago sociology professor Roger V. A parallel occurs in the business world when two managers allow their rivalry to escalate into public, tooth-and-claw conflict. This is especially true at work, where status hinges upon our unique experience and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” Nothing may seem simpler or more obvious than to know what a company’s business is,” Drucker pointed out in his 1973 landmark Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. Jeff Kehoe Sans Chic Making Wearable Tech More Wearable The New Yorker Speaking of technology becoming invisible, let''s face facts: Wearables are ugly. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

If you are in charge, there are obvious steps you need to take, most of which are covered in the countless books and training courses about meeting management. In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The consequence in the business world is that start-ups who are more willing to explore new ideas systematically outflank and often demolish established companies trapped in exploitation mode. John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” ” He also cites Roger Martin’s research , which found that 43% of managers cannot state their own strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

What happens: A program manager calls a meeting to think through a resourcing issue. Roger Schwarz. ” The company’s growth strategy hinges on this small outpost, yet the team there is regularly excluded during meetings. Let’s look at these biases and what you can do to mitigate their influence.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

As a leader in his company, Bud used what he called “Management by Wandering Around” (MBWA), where he’d stop into offices and ask the opinions of employees, clients, and others to gather insights about his organization and clients. In doing so, he discovered major flaws in the company that called for radical change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Roger Schwarz. After a recent strategy meeting of the top 30 executives at a major technology company, for example, the group decided on these communication points: This was not a one-time event, but the beginning of this group coming together as a senior leadership team. You and Your Team Series. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

So, how can we avoid change fatigue and organizational burnout while still moving our companies forward? For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing. As a result, they are often repeating the same mistakes while using up precious company resources.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. The same is true for any product or service company. If they fail frequently enough, we dump them for a company with a similar, or better, value proposition.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Any company or organization is like a tree. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World. But one of the best ways to adopt the bottom-up management style. It isn’t enough to state goals once a year or once a quarter at a company meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management , though it’s more accurate to call it Digital Restrictions Management—because DRM restricts what people can do with their digital stuff. Thereafter, the modded machine brewed all coffee, including Rogers Family Company coffee. Welcome to the weird world of DRM.

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