Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Why are organizations operating on a shoestring when there is a world of abundance out there?” ” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. Stephanie writes: “Have you seen the pretty scary statement from the Nonprofit Times that “most charities are teetering on financial peril”? Financial peril. Productivity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. With most of your information connected to the internet, we have to be aware there are people out there who are looking to get into your systems. The CIA wasn’t expecting the breach. Yet it happened.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. What would a talent management system grounded in happiness research look like? I have been thinking about this a lot lately and know it is so for me. Positive emotions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

These power styles emerge from the emotional and behavioral responses people internalize from dealing with authority figures in the family system. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. Scarcity issues within the family system are at the heart of the Pleaser power style.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Similar to what we learn from physics, a system at rest stays at rest, and Qubein had to challenge the existing mindset and behavior of faculty and staff who were mired in outdated education methods. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. This was part of the problem at the college.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Increasingly, leaders want not just to run an organization effectively, but to change the surrounding system as well. Not just fix a problem, like a broken financial system, but change the culture. Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Computer systems often don't come in a multitude of small parts; they generally come in huge packages. So is there a way to implement big process and system changes while engaging workers and enabling organizational learning? For example, the new system replaced a manual process for order entry. Solar Group, a €1.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. So when I joined the company in December 2006, I decided to deliver a shock to the system. Also, PBS is the opposite of a top-down company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? You and I consent to the system. And the system consents to us. There is no system. You and I aren't the system. Let me tell you a secret.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Systems intelligence – sensing the big picture and how things connect. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. It is much harder to install a structurally deep process like a knowledge sharing system once an organization has ballooned in size. Davis and F.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

We shouldn’t reform the patent system, they say, because there is no evidence that trolls are hindering innovation; these calls are being driven just by a few large companies who don’t want to pay inventors. Not so fast, say Stephen Haber and Ross Levine in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (“The Myth of the Wicked Patent Troll”).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Since no one can know what the source of the next systemic financial crisis will be, regulation can only do so much.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. In a fast moving world, where technological cycles outpace planning cycles , we need to continuously reevaluate the context in which we operate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

Jeanne has a good relationship with Roger Martin and he introduced her to the ideas many years ago and all of a sudden these themes began popping out and almost in a design-like way. We began seeing those themes emerge and from their we realized, “Okay, we really needed to focus in on design thinking and find out how we can learn more.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I work for a large organisation and I spend my life trying to fix things: processes, systems and policies – those sorts of things. Changing systems and processes is easy, but unless you can change people’s behaviour as well then your new process is worthless. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Or start earlier?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. The truth is that complex systems are beset and energized by a phenomenon called non-linear dynamics. This is at best a necessary, but not a sufficient precondition.

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

An adequate information system,” Drucker wrote, must lead executives “to ask the right questions, not just feed them the information they expect. In a knowledge economy, top-down direction is particularly detrimental because employees are bound to know more than their supervisors do about the specialized fields in which they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

mobile devices are now powerful enough to handle AR software and tracking systems), three other elements have enabled the mass adoption of AR apps: 1) meaningful content, 2) convincing and realistic interaction of the virtual with the physical environment, and 3) unique value that goes beyond what other technologies deliver.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Roger Schwarz. You may learn that Bob is thinking more systemically than the rest of the team and has identified an important issue that no one else thought of. The behaviors your team uses are driven by the mindset (that is, values and assumptions) you operate from. ” You and Your Team Series. Stu Heinecke.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

You can change who James Bond is—Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig—without destroying the franchise… Whereas with Rocky, you’re pretty much stuck with Sylvester Stallone.” So it gives you added freedom. And then came Windows 7.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

So far the self-examination has focused chiefly on its sales techniques; as detailed in the RNC report and Robert Draper's New York Times Magazine cover story last month on young Republican operatives, GOP pollsters have been convening lots of focus groups in which people tell them the party comes across as old, angry, and out of touch.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. Where anyone stands on a particular issue will be influenced by where they sit in the family business system. The seven stages: 1) Interests diverge.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. Push paper, systems, technology. System upholders. They keep the boat afloat.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. They cut costs to grow stronger.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. Lafley and Roger Martin coined the term cumulative advantage to describe the distinct strategic benefit of not changing. “It’s about helping customers avoid having to make yet another choice.”

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