Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Leadership Is Language : The Hidden Power of What You Say — and What You Don’t by L. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you. Consider the CEO who urges teamwork but designs incentives for individual success, who invites innovation but punishes failure, who emphasizes quality but pays for quantity. The result: mixed signals.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

There’s agile marketing, introduced by thought leaders at CMG. Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? In truth, factors like speed, agility and innovation aren’t all that valuable by themselves. Can agile help you win more?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. He focused on the personal characteristics of the leader. “Of

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Given that the global biotechnology market was valued at USD 1.55 The opportunities for bioentrepreneurs can be more exciting and impactful than ever in today's accelerated market. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019. Wright answers a critical question plaguing entrepreneurs, brand strategists, marketers, and leaders: how do you grow your brand in a noisy world? Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The elite of higher education would have us believe that leadership can be taught, especially if you are one of the privileged attending classes at a top tier university offering courses in leadership. Either way, we assume that leadership is dependent on personality traits and/or skills. Crisis leadership in action.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

You must identify those initiatives, innovations, and even behaviors that you may once have thought were temporary or ad hoc to deal with the pandemic but which are, in actuality, permanent advantages if you allow them to be. Moreover, innovation needs to be rather immediate. You can’t look outside only when you’re failing inside!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

He writes, “Jeff Bezos and Amazon have a remarkably consistent way to approaching and meeting challenges, operating their business and technology, and thinking about new ideas, markets, and growth.” The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

If you’re exploring a new market to enter, data can provide you with potential projections about sales and give you an idea of the type of customers within this market. Innovation needs to be consciously thought through and carried out. Look at Great Britain’s efforts for funding innovation.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Leadership requires passion. Second, they have to have an idea for a solution that is radically different from anything currently in the market. It’s about how Google goes about doing what it does do—day to day.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: If all options appear to be equal, get more information. Lesson: An expert isn’t always the person who knows the most.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Sustainable leadership is a direct result of leaders that encourage feedback, listen and act positively on the information they receive to take their leadership effectiveness to the next level. Leadership is about relationships. Building your leadership legacy is about building others. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. A recent MIT study underscores this.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We will instead show the market what we’re made of.”. How can you differentiate and elevate your organization to gain advantage and increase market share? Do you have the right people in the right roles, doing the right things to ensure success today and accelerate growth and innovation for a stellar future? Assess the market.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” Africa is the next growth market. And technology?

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.” T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. New thinking brings about new behavior resulting in different outcomes.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

W HAT ARE the defining characteristics of successful leadership? He offers the following chart to illuminate the effect of clarity and intentionality on our leadership effectiveness. The quadrant of No Leadership is negligent leadership—no direction and no way to get there. Intentional leadership is effective leadership.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This is a post by Mike Myatt author of Hacking Leadership : The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them Quickly. What is a thought leader, and what does thought leadership mean in today’s business world? This is due to the fact that thought leadership was once a term reserved for a limited few.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. False Starts.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

William Ammerman states in The Invisible Brand , “ AI will play an increasingly important role in our lives in the years ahead as marketers turn vast amounts of computing power to the problem of influence people’s decisions.”. Indeed, broadly speaking, everything we do is marketing. ).

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

To begin: In the digital age, competitive advantage is the ability to win the ultimate prize—the consumer’s preference— repeatedly , through continuous innovation on behalf of the consumer, and to create immense value for the shareholders at the same time. Their decision-making is designed for innovation and speed. Its ecosystem does.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. By adding digital without compromising the quality of the 160-year-old brand, Burberry regained market superiority in the new retail economy. Embrace disruption.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. Market Mover is of course, full of the nuts and bolts of financial technology and the digital economy, but it is so much more. T URNING AROUND an organization requires a new story. A very clear and well-told story. Get the Right People on Board 2. Reduce Bureaucracy 3.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

GE had internal problems, it was overly reliant on GE Capital, and it was not digitally literate and innovative. Tech start-ups define success, especially in the first decade, on how well they acquire customers, build capability, and penetrate their emerging markets. In his twenty years as CEO, GE’s value had risen 4,000 percent.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Then there are the social entrepreneurs where the donation is a marketing expense that drives growth. About two-thirds of the businesses owned around the world are owned and operated by families, and in America, “family firms constitute over half of the businesses in the country and half of those listed on stock markets.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation. “An

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

It shares the ways in which we stand above the rest: Club Tattoo has redefined the luxury tattoo and piercing industry by creating a viable lifestyle that reaches a wide audience but maintains a core value system that is innovative and has set a new standard for the tattoo and piercing industry.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”. That’s quite hard for people who have really only had one quiver [sic] in their leadership bow, which is command and control.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”. Within many organizations, highly innovative, potentially game-changing ideas are born regularly.

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