Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it.

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Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 285

Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Find out more today.

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Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Review Technology Strategy Books 80

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. This is Canada's No.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. ” “We’re working on the most advanced technology.” ” “Our products change lives.”

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 9