Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

The Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and Internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. The term character-based leadership rose out of this group’s efforts and eventually led to the book, The Character-Based Leader.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It is about providing leadership to all those passion-driven over achievers who end up as the “Mozart” in organizations. What would your leadership style be like if you supervised film director James Cameron, Steve Jobs, runner Usain Bolt, Lady Gaga, activist Susan B. But this piece is not about the Mozart.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. The priorities are on people and capabilities not things.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2017

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 19, 2014

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 16, 2015

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2013

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Hire the Best.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s about “how to release yourself and those you lead from the constraints of the mind’s own making and those of our organizations.”. Once you commit to the principle of love, a high hurdle presents itself when leaning into authenticity in your leadership. It gives us energy and capacity to handle stress and challenge.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. What I’ve discovered is again and again, is it’s actually the underlying leadership style inherent in the business that has the biggest impact.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. Rule 3: Embrace constraints.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions. Narratives are powerful leadership tools.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions. Narratives are powerful leadership tools.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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. The best way to allocate resources depends on the nature of the resources, the constraints at hand and the organization’s mission.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints. Leapfrogging is a set of tools and techniques, not a conceptual or ideological description of the socioeconomic evolution of Africa now or in the near future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a recent conversation, we discussed the power of subtraction as it applies to innovation. By removing things one creates self-imposed constraints, but also clarity and a cleaner context for inspired innovation. I owe this insight to my friend Richard Saul Wurman , the founder of the TED conferences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Congressional leadership quickly declared this a major victory for "job creators" and business in general. Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. It's anything but.

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