Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider these five action steps: Look for lots of innovative ideas in your area of need.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

They will make exploration, drilling, and other processes quicker and way more efficient. It could contribute to climate change goals or at least stop acting as a green boogeyman. The goal is to reduce the emissions by at least 3.4 We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Good leadership, whether formal or informal, is helping other people rise to their full potential while accomplishing the mission and goals of the organization. “The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Randolph takes us through the whole process from idea to launch day. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. Randolph had to take a look at himself—his strengths and weaknesses, his goals and motivations—and decide what was best for the company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! What solutions can you offer?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? In reality, though, each step is fraught with psychological difficulties and organizational complications, making the process as much an exercise in rooting out unspoken assumptions as a mathematical exercise. Or by making process improvements? Setting the growth target.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Acknowledge sadness. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Acknowledge sadness. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. That’s a recipe for missing out on an innovation with huge profit potential.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

For me, this includes eating “cleaner” – more whole foods, less processed, etc. I try to take a few minutes every day to be alone with my thoughts and to process what is going on around me. I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. Focus, Always. We create our own drama.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. So when the opportunity arises (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Day one of the 100-day planning process was a particularly somber one. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Challenge your team to align and share goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. But they will be used for "softer" disciplines too, like innovation and creativity. moments that spark the creative process.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

At the time, Martin had felt uncomfortable about offering so much proprietary information to a company for whom he did not yet work, but colleagues who’d more recently been in the job market told him, “This is how the interviewing process works these days — you jump through hoops.” His goal today? “To To ruin this company.”.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

By approaching the process with a realistic attitude, positive outcomes of future efforts will pay better dividends. These are often the worst violators of the process. I innovated programs which brought acclaim, prestige, fund-raising, community collaborations and more to that organization. ” Gurus of Networking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

But, he also knew that the ability to connect so many people offered a huge opportunity to stay true to his goal of melding his career and his intention to make a positive difference in the world. Don't rush the process. It's a simple process. It's something that each and every one of us has the potential to do.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. And in the process, local governments were mobilized to rethink restrictive and inefficient approaches to overseeing network installations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. Still, that doesn’t invalidate the insights that spring from this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 The group is leveraging extensive data from Nike and the Outdoor Industry Association on supplier sustainability performance (energy, water, toxicity, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

The problem is not that these innovative technologies don’t work; it’s that users will inadvertently make choices and take chances that undermine colleagues and customers. Passive AI/ML , by contrast, means the algorithms largely determine people’s parameters and processes for getting the job done. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At best, they serve other goals: allocating compensation fairly, and aligning each individual’s goals with the values and strategies of the company. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It set aggressive goals for broadband evolution, including upgrading digital networks to provide 100 million homes with connection speeds of 100 Mbps (a goal already reached , according to the Department of Commerce). The plan, written under the direction of former FCC chief of staff Blair Levin , was and remains a visionary document.

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