Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Steinway & Sons spiraled into decline “in large part due to its myopic obsession with craftsmanship at the expense or technological advancement and automation.” As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. Steinway allowed its strengths to become its weakness.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

BUT…many senior executives still consider “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, perceptions, engagement, and the like secondary to “hard decisions” such as strategies, investments, financial systems/analysis, technology, automation, AI, etc. Are you having fun?

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 7, 2014

I’m afraid I’ve come to recognize a serious leadership deficit today in America. The great tragedy is that the opportunity for true leadership, the kind that welcomes responsibility and takes courageous and necessary risks in spite of the unknown – that kind of leadership, has never been in higher demand.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. And, as was the case with the astronauts, the miners could not have made it safely home without the efforts, talents and leadership of thousands of others. There are leadership lessons to learn from the rescuers as well.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The deepest concerns that are facing us, population control, climate change , leadership and flexibility in the workplace call out to women to take charge. We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. Women Leaders and the Gift of Authenticity Leadership is a front-and-center job. It’s hard to hide, and.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Preventing fraud sure sounds like a good thing. That seemed to make sense.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Terri Cooper, Principal & Chief Inclusion Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Terri Cooper, the Global Sector Leader for healthcare and the US national chief inclusion leader for Deloitte. We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). Design Leadership development Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. Working with old hands before you forge a project of your own helps you pick up the routines, processes, and tools that make collaboration efficient.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

President Kennedy's space race leadership teaches us five valuable lessons about how to nurture the kind of collaboration that can stand the test of time. Approached correctly, today's companies can frame these crises as a way to set the stage for sweeping innovation in technology and management practices alike.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Such mindsets become further embedded in systems, structures, processes, and cultures that are self-perpetuating. A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. Kneeland established a zero-tolerance policy for any failure to cooperate.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

First, as shown by a recent analysis of 32 technology firms, the personality of CEOs shapes the culture of the organization. For example, open-minded and curious CEOs create an entrepreneurial culture, driven and intense CEOs create a culture of results and achievement, and altruistic CEOs create a culture of empathy and cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

And how do you motivate the departing colleague to cooperate? In many organizations, the typical off-boarding process is a whirlwind of project wrap-ups, paperwork, and exit interviews. The next step in the process is to encourage the person who’s leaving to share his knowledge. Who should be involved?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Leadership is about change, but what is a leader to do when faced with ubiquitous resistance? Leaders should create certainty of process, with clear, simple steps and timetables. But the minute you need cooperation for something new or different, the ghosts spring into action. Surprise, surprise! Past resentments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Integrating mindfulness into core talent processes such as onboarding, manager training, performance conversations and leadership development is also critical, though most organizations are not yet at this stage of adoption. The result is at times a frenetic way of working. Compartmentalize your cognitive load. Take detachment breaks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” Integrating with the Mother Ship.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. It’s worth remembering Peter Drucker’s famous distinction: “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” Probably not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. And we set up new, regular sharing sessions to improve cooperation among regions. We’re supporting this organizational transformation through training initiatives, process improvements, new tools, and a focus on building a more consumer-focused culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Wise leadership does not fit the strict patterns of smart analysis, but instead taps into an intuitive part of who you are at the core, unearthing counterintuitive principles: Compassion doesn't have to come at the cost of efficiency — it can actually drive systems and operational excellence. What is your North Star?

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. Their ability to stay ahead of trends and be technology savvy and direct in their communication, the strength of their emotional intelligence. Just lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

” Like the fighter pilot armed with all the technology he would seemingly need to land safely onto the carrier, today’s workforce has more than enough tools to send information back and forth to people all over the world. Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%. Collaboration Communication Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To understand the issues involved in this tussle, it is important to understand that firms like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are simultaneously competing and cooperating in multiple fronts — a phenomenon we call interlocking ecosystems. As one observer puts it , “efficiencies are the goal; competition is the process.”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

This includes the characteristics of addictive organizations, their processes, promises and forms. This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good. Make them understand.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

But the bad rep comes from ignoring the complex processes involved in creating value in combinations. Similarly, the inputs, or contributions, are also valued differently — these could be cash, technology, know-how, and so forth. In common business language, the combination has to produce synergy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

This includes the characteristics of addictive organizations, their processes, promises and forms. This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good. Make them understand.&#.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

For whatever reason, they didn’t seem to fear their company’s quality control or testing processes. Occam’s razor cuts deep; those processes were technically compromised and corrupt. Always look to the leadership. Their brazenness unnerves. Why might that be? Where were Volkswagen’s code reviews ?

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