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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Business leaders also have to change their leadership style in order to still be able to drive a sense of connection and community within their organization. Co-location facilitates collaborative teamwork and innovation, so companies have to find a way to balance the needs of their employees with these core fundamentals.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. In this way, employees get paid for both their intellectual property and what it is they’ll need to know.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But even if you embrace a less extreme version of the old ‘command and control’ style of leadership, you’re blocking the natural flow of the life’s blood of the company. Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me). Our group formed simply by where we were sitting around the design table and spoke to the diverse array of backgrounds in the class. Our initial reaction was to go large scale.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom. He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues. Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Compare him to Eli Manning of the Giants, who was allowed to fashion his own leadership style both on and off the field. ENGINEERS ARE PEOPLE, TOO. This is an important design and engineering question, according to IDEO founder and Stanford professor David Kelley. The message: if you love your leaders, set them free.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. Visionaries, risk-takers and engineering geniuses may fit better with moonshot companies, and disciplined doers, optimizers and commercial types for their more mature businesses for example. Three main things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Steve Jobs has always been considered an anomaly in management; his leadership style was something to admire or to criticize, but definitely not to replicate. Apple's approach to innovation is definitely not user-driven: it does not listen to users, but makes proposals to them. Nothing to be considered as a role model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Collaboration is not a style. Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. The change-catalyst: leadership as a turnaround activity. The transactor: leadership as deal making.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

There is no doubt that China has been one of the main engines of global growth in the last three decades. They’ve invest considerable financial resources in R&D to develop more innovative and healthier products. Essential to this economic success story has been China’s role as “the factory of the world.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Whether it’s about leadership and talent, or customers and innovation, identifying and communicating an inclusive aspirational vision – to both men and women – is key. Explain the “why” to the majority : HBS’s lack of transparency around why they were pushing for change was perceived as ‘social engineering.’

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 22, 2022

It is the engine that drives what gets done and how it gets done. Tom Peters famously said, “Ready, Fire, Aim” which was as much about innovation and experimentation as taking action. Compare the four leadership styles below. Action to intentionality. “Don’t just sit there, do something!

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