Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

I have watched the profession go through lots of very savvy efforts to pigeonhole employees into categories or styles or features in order to make leadership more prescriptive. What do I do with the redneck under my leadership who likes Mozart more than George Jones? Leadership is not about the pursuit of assumption.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Or they are serial product innovators making us “need” things we didn’t know we needed – anyone need another Swiffer with a disposable (and revenue-generating) attachment? With leadership it is about style. It changed.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. The iPhone platform is the best for mobile applications.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. If they’ve been a product manager or a salesperson in the past, they’ll be better able to recruit individuals to lead that function for their startup. False Promises. Speed Traps. Eisenmann : The show is terrific!

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LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

But they also created a “lab” where they brought in real live customers to test-drive new online banking products. Here’s how to start: Identify the leading edge customers (customers that think creatively, ask for new things, or are your early adopters). Innovation Leadership innovation kaplan market research prototyping'

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations. What new product or service could you offer to fight back against your deep pocketed competitors? Could you copy this tactic and focus laser-like on one main product? The S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Examples include Method Products, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s and two of my favorites, Runa and Susty Party. Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Great companies are built on great products. If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. Wayne Gretzky. Seth Godin.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

People do not start selling early enough. People need to create their minimum viable product/service and test it as soon as possible, across as many subsets of their intended markets as possible. Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Nobody wants to do sales.

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

You’re probably familiar with the original form of crowdfunding: People with an interest in a start-up give money through a site such as Kickstarter in exchange for some reward (a first version of the product, a T-shirt, that sort of thing). If enough people give even a little, the startup can bank what it needs to get rolling.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. LARRY: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. If you think you can sell a partner by merely "demoing" your wonderful product you have not grasped this essential point. One blames poor salesmanship while the other blames the product. Ask questions. Don''t figure it out.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pace of robot adoption may surprise us, just as the internet spread more quickly than many anticipated. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. So the best would be to set a higher price first and then get all the early adopters to get in the game. The real question is whether you need any of those products. What can we do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. 3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Scheduled before the massive annual CES gathering, it's a powwow for bloggers and other social media enthusiasts, early adopters who are quick to jump on board the next great thing. For such a visual product, literally differentiated by its color, Pinterest is a terrific platform.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. In a knowledge-based economy, research becomes the means of production.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Whatever audience you choose, make the choice early — it will greatly affect how you present the data, the language you use, and the look and feel of your published products. Fortunately, we were a very early adopter of an electronic health record system, which has greatly facilitated some of our measurement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. You can also use these processes to inform policy, pricing, staffing, process and product improvements. Organized learning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If it were a Toyota vehicle-manufacturing plant, a key enabler would be a rope strung along each production line above team members, the Andon Cord. To foster a common sense of urgency, every member of our leadership team was provided a copy of John Kotter’s “ Our Iceberg is Melting.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, BMW’s greatest co-innovation success, 12 years earlier, had been in a “venture client” relationship with an early stage startup: Mobileye, now a leader in collision-avoidance technology. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. I’ve found no better diagnostic for promoting authentic revelations around personal leadership style and substance. The lead-by-example stories executives tell sharpen their leadership brand propositions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Executives can change strategy, products and processes until they're blue in the face, but real change doesn't take hold until people actually change what they do. Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. I spent the summer reviewing research on this topic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

When someone in poverty buys a device that improves productivity, the device pays for itself (if it didn't, they wouldn't buy it.) That's enough to participate in other productivity or life-enhancing investments, like a well, or a roof, or health care. It has worked with other products. That's a surplus of $700 a year.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

However, to start them down a productive path, clarify the following: They are to list actual core values, not aspirational values. To add to the excitement of our initial roll-out, we wanted to keep the momentum going in the early adoption phase by giving employees the optional opportunity to participate in a t-shirt design contest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

That’s product, support, sales, marketing and the CEO/founder coming together to introduce a new solution that solves a real pain point. Part of the Steve Jobs legacy is his famous/infamous attention to the details of Apple product design that bordered on obsession, a habit we call “pixel polishing.” Build content early and often.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Meanwhile, engaged customers are three times more likely to recommend or advocate a product or service to a friend. When customers wake up and decide they are the product, they will stop trading privacy for convenience. Haphazard approaches to engagement negate good intentions.

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