Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But I also like it because it captures one fundamental obstacle to innovation that all would-be disruptors must be prepared to face: the potentially hostile response of incumbents who don't want to see their market advantages threatened. There's nothing new here.

Innovation 15

Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance' Basically, it''s due.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' These opinions matter.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable. That was the challenge.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Dealing with resistance Ideally, it would be great if the executive has a genuine passion and interest for the new work. There’s three things you need to have for a reasonable chance for success: the right person, the right environment/situation, and the right support system.” It’s the people stuff that really makes a difference!” “You

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. One of my participants, a 35-year-old marketing manager named Dave, offered a clue. Olu isn’t in a career that requires him to wear a suit, but what could his artistic and creative talent bring to a more corporate environment?

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Fashion Participative Class Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

The most important objective is for them to discover their strengths and interests, and to begin learning marketable skills. They should reflect on whether they thrive in competitive environments, where there are stars and also-rans, or if they prefer cultures that put a premium on teamwork, or tenure.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. But if the world is highly unpredictable and unstable, as in the stock market, you have many parameters to estimate and relatively little data. They were arguing, first, it’s a highly dynamic environment. Then make it simple.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. That is exactly why technology-led disruption is generally resisted by status quo interests: at least some of them lose out as a consequence of change.

Banking 12

Banking Long-term Short-term System 12

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In addition, when we work in complex adaptive environments (like an organization), then we have to be able to leverage each and every tool at our disposal in varying degrees to accomplish the objective. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful.

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