Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. The more people you have thinking strategically, even at the frontlines, the more innovative and dynamic your company will be. It’s a win-win.

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Management How To Game Theory Tactics 479

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 83

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Guest post by Janet Britcher : Entrepreneurship: Exploring When professionals demonstrate excellence in their chosen field, they are often promoted to leadership, leaving behind their foundational expertise and for some, their first love. I’m a fan of playing to strengths, and spending time and energy where there is creativity and passion.

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Executive Coaching Self-aware Entrepreneur Wilde 159

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It is about providing leadership to all those passion-driven over achievers who end up as the “Mozart” in organizations. What would your leadership style be like if you supervised film director James Cameron, Steve Jobs, runner Usain Bolt, Lady Gaga, activist Susan B. But this piece is not about the Mozart.

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Wilde Fashion Ulrich Emotional Intelligence 150

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. Here are 100 of the best ways to define leadership–choose the ones that fits best for you. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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Leadership Definition Follow-up Influence 160

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. That’s part of the job.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 18, 2017

It’s certainly deadly to innovation. The CEO of this particular organization was frustrated by the lack of new ideas from his leadership team about how to stay ahead of the competition in the future. According to Adam’s account, by changing the question asked, the CEO unleashed the energy and creativity of this team.

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Groupthink Organization Wilde Consensus 104

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 1, 2012

The irony in Red Bull’s approach to publicity is a new business that may very well exceed energy drink sales. Two similar products, two strategic paths, two successful energy drink companies. Yes, in the energy drink market there is more than one way to skin a cat. Red Bull’s initial target market was the college crowd.

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Trout Reis Sports Brand 249

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider these five action steps: Look for lots of innovative ideas in your area of need.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Workshop Learning-by-Doing 173

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). The man just said, “We’ll see.” The man and his son corralled all 21 horses.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). The man just said, “We’ll see.” The man and his son corralled all 21 horses.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Do what works!

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Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Every company has a limited amount of time, money, and resources that it can invest in innovation. That’s why they should focus their energies on opportunities that will set them apart from their competition — that is, they should innovate where they differentiate. So what about your company? Is it differentiating itself?

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Company Innovation Wilde Insurance 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

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Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results. Is a colorful symbol of the performance of open-source innovation. But the Fringe is more than performance art.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. Don’t cheat yourself because you are spending energies on the ‘non-active many,’ mostly people who could care less. Keep it in balance.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Engage your leadership team to help put a stop to using email for urgent and time-sensitive information. Proponents say they also improve collaboration and innovation, and opponents report that they cause higher stress and lower concentration, motivation, and cognitive functioning. Strategically placed bookcases or other room dividers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. After collecting enough hilarious answers, the hackathon leaders shared them throughout the exercise to keep participants’ energy up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. For over 200 years, from Thomas Malthus to the Limits to Growth gang, many people have made the case that it won't be long before we'll run out of food, energy, materials, and on and on. It's an idea that has enthralled many, but has seemed to be wrong.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

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Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. But that’s more a leadership challenge than a technical issue. Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8