Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

– The Product Management Perspective: This is a great book for product managers. According to Robin Sharma , the author of The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life , anyone can be a leader. “Problems and difficult days are actually good for you.&#

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior.

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Wilde Drucker Organizational Behavior Creativity 114

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2015

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation risk management.

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Wilde Drucker Software Innovation 70

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 453

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Their performance reviews give short shrift to their vast achievements while spotlighting only their “does not play well with others” dimensions. But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. They can be successfully led but are poorly managed. The Plight of a Mozart.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. I knew his reputation for being a bit of a wild man.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In 1891, the Anglo-Irish playwright and author, Oscar Wilde, wrote, “We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.” On the other hand, innovative technology has brought huge advances to our lives. Is that what you want?

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Wilde Bottom-up Technology Letter 69

Talent Anarchy 1

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

We were experiencing an “innovate or die” moment for the business. One of the reasons our organizations are so poor at innovation is that we don’t have enough weirdos. Let’s be honest: A workplace without weirdos is far easier to manage. And no one ever said innovation was easy. Minimal conflict.

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Innovation Wilde Diversity Politics 119

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

When Catmull’s name was announced to receive an Oscar for his lifetime of work in computer animation, the crowd went wild, whistling and whooping. In most organizations only 25 percent of employees – the managers and the stars — feel included. Instead, it was an understated, bespectacled, computer engineer named Ed Catmull.

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Competitive Advantage Environment Class Wilde 395

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Miller advocates for “management by asking” in her post “ Socrates Was On to Something.” Learn how to get the most out of blogs, books, seminars and other resources, whether the subject is management, leadership or any other self-improvement effort, the process for using the information is the same. posted at HRmarketer.com Blog.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 8, 2010

That young man, Peter Drucker, left his well-paying job and went on to become the father of management consulting. Effective leadership, employee engagement and employee motivation are closely linked to the alignment of behavior with personal values. What if you discover there are differences in your values and how you are presently living?

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

David Burkus gives us a bucket of my favorite food, with My Buffalo Wild Wings Rant posted at LeaderLab. None other than Sharlyn Lauby , with The Business Case for Managing Ourselves posted at HR Bartender , and Mark Stelzner , with Why Morons Win posted at Inflexion Point. posted at Joe and Wanda on Management.

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CO2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. There have been plenty of recent examples where shareholders would have been well served by systems to curtail wild risks. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said. That's just what my life is like.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. Vision is essential for innovation. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Lina Echeverría spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies, that provided the world with everything from the optical fiber that enabled the Internet to the tough glass used for iPhones.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

A popular speaker, creativity coach, and close advisor on innovation to companies such as ADP, [.]. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 3, 2012

A popular speaker, creativity coach, and close advisor on innovation to companies such as ADP, Edmunds, Intuit, and [.].

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Creativity Innovation Strategy Company 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

First, board members periodically attend (in an observing capacity only) monthly and quarterly senior management meetings. We believe these two innovations meaningfully contributed to Netflix’s extraordinary performance in recent years. Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) are two-day gatherings of the top 500 employees.

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Analysis Document CEO Execution 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

My regular reviews of these simple documents keep me on track when things get tough. No one wants to work harder for a complacent or mediocre manager, however, every employee wants to be led by an enthusiastic leader that helps them become more passionate about their work. This would lead to greater achievements and greater success.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? In many cases, a month is more than long enough to get a useful answer that can inform all your important activities related to creating a robust strategy for innovation and growth. Growth strategy Innovation' Once again this sounds straightforward.

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Women in the LEAD

JANUARY 25, 2010

  Business, professionals, academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, governments and public bodies alike have to care and have to take up these challenges practically. We need to find different models for social and economic progress or face repercussions and continued cyclical economic time bombs. 

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Through our work at the global design and innovation firm IDEO and David’s work at Stanford University’s d.school, we’ve helped thousands of executives and students develop breakthrough ideas and products, from Apple’s first computer mouse to next-generation surgical tools for Medtronic to fresh brand strategies for the North Face in China.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs. Private vs. Public.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. Slam dunk, right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

We've heard from countless managers like him who have seized on what they believe to be a game-changing innovation that they cannot get senior leaders to pay attention to. They ensure that home office managers have the right skills and political capital to champion the best insights from the field.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Or is failure a tool that will help me innovate more effectively? When we sublimate the sadness, we risk losing our passion, an essential lubricant for the engine of innovation. Acknowledge sadness.

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