LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Leaders who possess the unyielding intention of creating breakthroughs give themselves a leg up by ensuring everything they do adds a completely new level of value to the market. Boundary Pushing. Savoring Surprise.

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. The other domain is leadership. Role model these things every day.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. The discussion involved how to create new financial services for their high net worth clients (a.k.a.

Innovation 141

Innovation Kaplan Banking Incubator 141

LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

Strategy #3: Test the Waters with Your Pinky Toe – Research from the University of Virginia shows that entrepreneurs get their ideas out into market as quickly as possible (even if they’re not perfect), test them, and change their fundamental assumptions as needed. What do we know deep down to be true that data can’t tell us?

Strategy 160

Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “This is a guidebook, with practical business advice, that if followed, will enhance your business and provide solutions to every day small business problems. “But the book doesn't stop there!

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc.,

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc.,

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply.

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Review Kaplan Performance Review Kaizen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Robert Kaplan. Robert Kaplan identifies seven key areas that merit self-reflection and guides managers and executives through a series of questions and assessments that will help them improve their leadership skills. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

While his intentions were admirable at first glance, his leadership style was ultimately hurting his team, his investors, and himself. Take “Christine,” a client who is CEO of a middle-market consumer packaged goods company. Wanting her team to feel valued, she led by consensus.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This kind of opinion giving may be quite appropriate and adequate in any number of situations, but it doesn’t constitute leadership. Leadership requires much more. The team was charged with conceiving of all aspects of the new product’s design, packaging, marketing, and distribution strategy. Robert Steven Kaplan.

Project 8

Project Advice Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Surprise is the enemy.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

LDRLB

OCTOBER 22, 2012

In the world of business leadership and entrepreneurship, persistence is often touted as one of the key success attributes. As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. ” Donald Trump.

Power 167

Power Kaplan Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 167