Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. We are all a work-in-progress.

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Career How To Kaplan Emotional Intelligence 190

LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

It’s a simple tool ( download PDF or download PowerPoint ) for defining the following dimensions of an organization’s innovation culture: Leadership – How leaders influence innovation through explicit decisions and subtle behaviors. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies. KEY Creativity Climate (Harvard).

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Innovation Kaplan Download Creativity 162

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Situational judgment tests are a standard part of the recruitment process nowadays. Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. “In

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Team Kaplan Attrition Survey 69

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

Here's a guest post by Paul Thornton, a Great Leadership regular: To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care. The best gardeners learn through experience and reflection what flowers need to grow and develop. Results and Process Some leaders only focus on results. Results count!

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Kaplan Planning Review Learning-by-Doing 251

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership. Leadership used to be all about purpose, vision, mission, motivation and communication. Provide an innovation vision – Create a vision for innovation.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Time to Assess How Your Team Uses Time We often work with leadership teams on their use of individual and collective time.

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Organization Kaplan Diversity How To 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2013

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Diversity Kaplan Self-aware Long-term 55

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Kaplan and Norton point out that customer satisfaction, internal business processes, learning, and revenue growth are important drivers of long-term performance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Sometimes you can infer the way someone will process the information based on his or her job function. At the heart of every employee is talent. Your associates are the voice and the face of your business.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA shows readers how to develop these core skills and use them in combination to generate new ideas. By Robert Kaplan. By Dick Grote.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This kind of opinion giving may be quite appropriate and adequate in any number of situations, but it doesn’t constitute leadership. Leadership requires much more. In addition, he developed alternative point-of-sale materials to be used in some of the regional product tests that were about to be conducted. Adapted from.

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Project Advice Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9