Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

My research on rail, air, roads, cars and trucks, public transit systems, and model infrastructure projects for my book Move confirms a lesson about leadership for change: Incremental innovations can pave the way for breakthroughs. Take rail transportation. Big systems changes can seem daunting. Small wins can have big impact.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Living the Southwest Way! PHOTOS: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are five suggestions for enlisting in this august body of leaders: Practice F2 Leader Leadership – What explains the differences between the leader who rises steadily through the ranks versus the one whose career mysteriously jumps the track short of an executive position? Present and future executives need more. But remember.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. In the US, ITT tells us, about 650 water mains break each day at a cost of $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. Yes, the benefits of testing should clearly outweigh its costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? Delayed or cancelled flights cost the U.S. gallons of wasted fuel, and a public health cost of pollution of about $15 billion per year, according to Harvard School of Public Health researchers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Or consider transportation. Or they can use ZipCar , at a fraction of the cost of car ownership. Consider senior care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware). But others did this, too. Fixing the Problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. Therefore, one of the main questions to ask of our fractured state-level climate policy is whether it can unleash the same level of innovation. The Background. Blue States.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Management and leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Thanks to leadership from the Obama Administration — in the form of a $3.7 But nothing innovated, nothing gained. name a few.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. A significant part of innovation and almost all of commercialization is driven by profit incentives and relies on a system of protection for the intellectual property rights of innovators and entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, the humdrum issue of transportation infrastructure barely registers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. They support profitable growth: a business can deliver margins that increase with scale as it adds each new user to the platform at modest incremental cost.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right? Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

They drive innovation and move the organization forward.". " Particularly troubling are the bottom three sectors — service, transportation, and manufacturing or production. shows that these managers from hell are creating active disengagement costing the U.S. Leadership Managing people' growth (like manufacturing ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. How did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Value proponents further insist that inputs be measured comprehensively to include all the costs of producing desired outcomes. Its emphasis on the whole patient and comprehensively measured costs would encourage teamwork among clinicians and coordination of care across specialties, clinical units, and health care organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

The average breach costs around $4 million. Nobody, though, is showing any leadership.” ” The tools to accomplish attacks are increasingly available on the dark web at decreasing costs, including troves of cyber tools stolen from the NSA and CIA. Related Video. And we need it now.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Exceptional success comes at a cost. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We conservatively estimate that the related costs of diabetes — including medication, supplies, hospital care, and the treatment of complications — will exceed $1 trillion a year by 2045. An innovative example is Houston’s approach to engaging the faith community in health care. Community involvement in health.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

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