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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process. The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. Almost every company has a Stage Gate process because they work well for incremental innovation.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

The first believes the company’s goal is to maximize shareholder value. Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

When change happens fast in some area, it’s usually because multiple trends are converging to accelerate the process. Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. This is what is going on now in community development.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

CFOs are more interested in capital investment estimates, net present values, and a clear outline of the trade-offs of any investment. Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive.

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How to Choose the Ideas Your Company Should Invest In

Harvard Business Review

My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. After this starting point, however, our VC process holds pretty well. Note what isn't part of the decision: an idea's net present value or return on investment.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.