Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Leaders are in a position to influence how we think about the relationship between empathy and industry. Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. we were able to build upon many of the old habits and traits that had worked in the past to quickly transform into the fastest-growing company in our industry. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Leadership requires passion. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it’s a given the role for which you’re hiring is going to change. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Yet, it’s not the same in every case—likability does not necessarily equal followership when it comes to leadership. Would that same CHRO be as successful at a firm where the culture was more about innovation and less about continuity? Industry is the second context to consider. You have to like the people you work with.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Guest post from John R Childress: In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and highly influential. Leadership is a responsibility!

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2018

Fowler & Noal McDonald: Leadership is a complex idea: one that is not consistently easy to wrap our minds around. We know good leadership when we see it. If we think of what these experiences have in common, we might think of this quote by Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell: “Leadership molds individuals into a team.”

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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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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. How can a leader initiate and navigate change in a change-averse industry or culture? Form an innovation team. Provide an innovation budget. well, it’s not good news. well, it’s not good news.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. Gordon Berridge: What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? On with the interview.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Rather than step into an already crowded shoe industry (yes, another pun), he got close to the generation he was compelled to reach and gave them what they wanted: respect. Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

Research from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich reminds us that it isn’t always like this, however, and that people from working-class backgrounds can ascend the greasy pole in certain industries. By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Do you have the right people in the right roles, doing the right things to ensure success today and accelerate growth and innovation for a stellar future? What will differentiate your organization as a future-focused, customer-centric, innovation-driving engine of growth? Assess the market. Look out over the horizon.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Beyond alarming questions of what is "fair" to the innovators themselves, few have considered how these human capital controls might impact the quality and quantity of innovation--and ultimately economic growth. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2023

A professional career as a business manager, regardless of size, scope, or industry, demands a certain set of skills, unlike many other job roles. With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If companies want to change direction, external candidates are generally seen as more likely to engineer such a change. It found that internal CEOs tend to pursue growth-related opportunities when their firm-specific experience is combined with experience from different industries and regions.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

One simple idea, connecting vending machines to the internet, had the potential to affect multiple industries. One action affects multiple value chains across multiple, high- and low-tech industries alike. He sees this as a waste of time that reduces productivity and impacts the environment from engines idling for minutes at a time.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

One rising area that is having a critical mass impact in every industry is the robotics space. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. It might amaze many people to know that successful entrepreneurs are rarely building on new ideas or disrupting existing industries. Poor leadership and poor execution can sink even the greatest ideas.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. People at all levels of a company, both degreed engineers and factory-floor craftspeople, are needed to design user-friendly new products and assemble prototypes that users can experiment with in the field.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Building world-changing products and creating transformative innovation requires being vision-driven.”

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

Indeed, women software engineers significantly differ from men in terms of personality traits, which are related to higher job performance, ethics, and creativity. Supporting innovation. This kind of servant leadership also plays a crucial role in supporting the kind of innovations that will be so important in the years ahead.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. took over leadership from their fathers. This is an excerpt.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. It’s also not just about hiring more good engineers.”. Dynamic, innovative, changing, and constantly learning: This is the new reality.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 31, 2020

Front-end Engineer. Front end engineers are always in demand, more so as the world is now going digital. The front-end engineers earn a high salary in international organizations on joining itself, as this job is not one to fade out from the market. Cloud Engineer. Network Engineer. Computer Programmer.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 20, 2014

In its heyday, Eastman Kodak Company was an icon of innovation in photography; a juggernaut in its field. Kodak leadership missed a number of innovative opportunities in the past. It was rock-solid and the dominant company in the photography industry until creative destruction turned granite to sand. Kodak Focus on Film.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Here are just a few ideas: Stop putting heritage before innovation : Millennials don’t care about buying their grandfather’s bike. Prompting its CEO to comment in its earnings press release : “The continued weakness in the U.S. In fact, they would prefer to set their own trend with completely new designs and styles.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

I recently participated in a panel discussion about the future of the recruiting industry, and quite frankly, I was surprised with many of the prevailing attitudes and thoughts surrounding the topic at hand. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth .

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. That finding has stuck with me.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. Can't Get Enough Leadership. Awakening Leadership: Embracing Mindfulness.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely.

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