Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You have to convince your future employees, investors, business partners, and board members that your idea is worth spending money, reputation, and time on. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. Now the work began. I never intended to get there.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. It worked only because they healed their wounds and rediscovered the passion and commitment that allowed them to live up to the band’s reputation. I’ve learned countless life and business lessons from this rock-star leader.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. It worked only because they healed their wounds and rediscovered the passion and commitment that allowed them to live up to the band’s reputation. I’ve learned countless life and business lessons from this rock-star leader.

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Succession Audience Wilde Entrepreneur 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. If you keep a low profile and let your work speak for itself, you may indeed develop a good reputation among the people you work closely with. But that’s a relatively limited number of people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

It’s very rare that innovation decisions are black and white. Make a prediction , even if it is just a wild guess, as to what should happen. So-called devil’s advocates have a bad reputation among innovators because they seem to say no just to say no. Innovation Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

If you made a mistake in your spreadsheet you could roll it back, a must-have feature for companies wanting to use PC spreadsheets (which still had "toy" reputations) for real business. And now, undo is new yet again.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

At a time when the buzzwords in corporate America are innovation , disruption , and game-changers — all actions that require recruiting the best talent in the marketplace — organizations, instead, are artificially creating bureaucratic inefficiencies that are inexcusably cumbersome and that result in the creation of legions of antagonists.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. Warren Buffet once said , “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Oil is nearing a 14 year low.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These people jockey for favor with the power structures and are accorded community standing based upon the reputation-value of their company. They are also valued according to the reputation of their companies, directly commensurate to how much money they give to charities and business organizations.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I learned early on, and quite accidentally really, what my core skill set was – and by focusing on that I was able to develop a reputation for excellence. A healthy dose of nature helps me maintain a healthy perspective and keep day-to-day challenges from running wild. Firstly, get super-good at something! Torres, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

I was forced to shift from my initial focus on creating great content to setting up a distribution system, to coming up with an innovative in-shop presence to reach consumers, and so on. Flipkart has grown at breakneck speed, and it has earned a terrific reputation for customer service. In India, that is impossibly hard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Most workers are buffeted by forces outside their control — industry changes, technological innovations, globalization, and the like. Specifically, that means: Cultivating a reputation as one of the best in your company or industry. Developing a passionate, loyal following of people who value your perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no questioning the fact that Musk’s talent for entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to translate original and useful ideas into practical innovations, is truly outstanding. Silicon Valley, with its myth of the lone innovator who disrupts the status quo, is particularly susceptible to these dynamics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

I am listening to him share his comprehensive findings — soon to be released — on the power of values-based, self-governing corporate cultures as a driver of sustainable growth, innovation, and resiliency. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

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