Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The tyrant boss reported directly to this VP. It took a lot of courage (some may call this stupidity) to report the transgressions of my boss to his boss. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

It’s worrying, then, that according to several reports the number of new businesses being created in the U.S. Building a new product or service in itself is not adequate, even if it’s a brilliant innovation. Third, who do you want on your core team? has been stalled since the end of the recession.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Instead of focusing on innovation, as he did during his first tour as CEO of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods firm, Lafley is now innovating on focus. represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? . represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

But “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” as Mark Twain said. Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. Merck and Co.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. We have previous examples to learn from, and our core competence is learning from the past. Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

With technology and business model cycles becoming shorter and companies facing unrelenting pressure to innovate or suffer the consequences, more and more boards need to focus on the second of these roles. Turn Courage and Candor into Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. Google has at once freed device manufacturers from having to invest in developing complex operating systems, allowed them to focus on their core competence of designing and manufacturing of devices, and thereby lower their costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

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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? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Not only are profits rising,” write the authors of the McKinsey report, “but in some industries, the leading firms are winning bigger than ever before.” “This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old. Perhaps most importantly, it demands a leadership structure that can drive digital innovation. Consider GE.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October. Fail Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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