Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. Best Idea, Not Consensus. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Innovation Is Where the Crazy People Have Stature.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. PMs who build consensus and inspire team members develop a high ROI on their products and ROR with their colleagues.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Let’s say your team is discussing a marketing opportunity with some newly available funds. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The following seven leadership best practices identify what organizations in the top 20 percent of financially performing companies are doing differently from the bottom performers and how much more likely they are to be successful compared to organizations that are not using the identified best practice. .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Through a decade of innovation-training work with global leaders (and in researching my new book, Why Simple Wins ), I’ve identified the unique mindset possessed by leaders who succeed in simplification. Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. These were compiled, reviewed by marketing, and acted upon.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. Business education Informal leadership Leadership' Procter & Gamble provides another example. Lawrence A.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Leaders with acquired diversity , our US data shows, are more likely to behave in ways that unlock the innovative potential of their entire team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF). Future potential matters (much) more than past performance. Yesterday" is a sunk cost. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The congealing critical consensus is that Johnson's bold overhaul of the sagging American retailing icon went too far too fast. She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. Failure simply means leadership went too fast or didn't go fast enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. This "common language" barrier is one of the hidden challenges that can inhibit innovation inside large companies. Have each of them write down on a piece of paper their definition of innovation, and who in the company should be working on innovation.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. Recognizing and avoiding these pitfalls can significantly enhance leadership effectiveness. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The changes that India struggled to cope with, such as slowing domestic growth, increasing globalization, and an uncertain political and regulatory environment, describe global markets today. Even large domestic firms were far behind their global counterparts in funding, innovation, and access to markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. finalize strategy and build consensus; 4. Participants suppress any pushback and offer subdued comments that result in a polite consensus, regardless of whether it actually exists.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A lot of companies use an ever-more-sophisticated array of online social tools in an attempt to connect their people, get a flow of ideas going, and spur innovation. Why is the goal of a more collaborative and innovative organization so elusive? Social and collaborative tools alone do not create a flow of ideas and innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

If people have grown cold on male-dominated structures and leadership, they offer a solution: Two-thirds of survey respondents felt that "The world would be a better place if men thought more like women", including 76% of the French and Brazilians and 70%of Germans. Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. Then the person associated with the voice stood up and started to point out other areas where the plan was lacking, and where it would lead the company to miss the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. Three key aspects of Ford's sustainability strategy strike me as critical, and show the company's real leadership: It's based on hard science.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. How does the company deal with dramatic change?

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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. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. In this new world, the best marketers exhibit five superpowers – each of which requires new types of talent. Leadership + digital acumen: Many digital natives lack leadership experience and many seasoned leaders lack digital expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. Leadership & Managing People Book. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. Adapted from.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. That tension essential to creativity is tough to manage, requiring deft leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Build platforms, not products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

This token sale was done through a widely marketed crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $150 million in ether value. If you happened to lose your ether tokens in any other way, whether through market manipulation or through another hack, the rigid “code as law” doctrine still applied — and you were out of luck.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. the top should be a crowded place.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. The company defined a new growth strategy that would require a significant improvement in its ability to innovate rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Part of what’s been driving more ambitious corporate action on innovation to address social and environment challenges is increased pressure and higher expectations from the rest of society that business should play a role in helping sort out contemporary global challenges. Finally, this is a question of personal leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The truth is, we don't actually compete much with China in our export markets; it's mainly with the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese. He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio].

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