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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

You can reach new goals, grow, and make meaningful contributions in life and in business even in the throes of change and unpredictability. Explore the challenges of once-innovative tech giants like Facebook and Google and the factors behind their struggles.

Books 291
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Why Is Strategy Execution So Hard? The Odds Are Against Us

Six Disciplines

Effective execution of strategy seems to be an elusive goal. After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [2] Only 5% of employees understand their corporate strategy.[4].

Norton 101
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4 Ways To End Destructive Pride

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Ritchie Norton. People have trouble reaching goals and pursuing dreams for one (or many) of the following pride-related reasons: They are too prideful to risk appearing “stupid.” Brown continues, “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

Collins 279
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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. Set Goals That Lead ). Innovate Purposefully ). Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline II. Discipline III.

System 98
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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. Set Goals That Lead ). Innovate Purposefully ). Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline II. Discipline III.

System 85
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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical.

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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees

Harvard Business Review

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. As my HBS colleague Michael Norton shows in his book Happy Money , giving to others boosts happiness. Managing people Motivation'