Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Use four levers to reshape the work environment: role modeling, understanding and conviction, reinforcement mechanisms, and confidence-building efforts. Health is about the how.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Arguably one of humanity's most important inventions, "modern" management was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. You have to be a relentless contrarian to peel away the operating assumptions and built-in beliefs that surround us like wallpaper.

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). If so, how?

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high. That's exactly the kind of environment Jim Lavoie worked in for 30 years. The Newport, R.I.-based

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