Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Guest post from Robin Speculand: Leaders across the world have been taught how to plan but not how to execute. Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. Kaplan and David P.

Execution 211

Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

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.

Organization 50

Organization Kaplan Diversity How To 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. The most important thing is to actively think about your audience as you start planning your presentation. You can plan your strategy around what the audience knows and how they think.

Planning 56

Planning Audience Succession Library 56

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.

Diversity 55

Diversity Kaplan Self-aware Long-term 55

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

Management 8

Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

Library 76

Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 76

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Planning a presentation? By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. As you plan the story that opens your presentation think of how the great authors and moviemakers tell their stories. At the heart of every employee is talent.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

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.

Kaplan 12

Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

When I graduated from business school and started my career with Touche Ross in 1982, I planned to stay just two years. I was no longer able to plan five years into the future as I had when I was younger, because my next move depended on the frequently changing needs of my family. People say how lucky I am to have "such a good life."

Kaplan 14

Kaplan Short-term Career Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Leadership & Managing People Book. Robert Steven Kaplan. These exercises may help you increase your self-awareness and develop your abilities to better understand your passions. This article was adapted from What You’re Really Meant to Do , by Robert Steven Kaplan. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Kaplan Career Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

In speaking with the management team, we saw familiar signs of pain. And several weak players were holding back the already-strained management team. The price of that indecision is becoming increasingly obvious: the company is sliding on market share and several middle management stars have left to join competitors.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

As we look to develop competence within a new domain of expertise, moving up a personal learning curve, initially progress is slow. Saul Kaplan , Chief Catalyst at Business Innovation Factory, shares: "My life has been about searching for the steep learning curve because that's where I do my best work.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

After several weeks of work, he came up with a detailed plan regarding display and placement for the product within each retail context: grocery stores, drugstores, and other consumer outlets. 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.

Project 8

Project Advice Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

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. The project team developed TDABC process maps at the three locations.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2011

While President Obama's budget commission developed proposals to address these issues, a lame-duck Congress declared a temporary victory by extending all tax cuts (even for the wealthy) as part of a deal applauded by both sides of the aisle that, in effect, simply kicked the can down the road. A nation is a terrible thing to waste.

Kaplan 14

Kaplan Proposal Short-term Budgeting 14