Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. When we move beyond just developing ourselves to developing others, it signals that we are transitioning from the power of me to the power of we. When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Authors.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ All rights reserved.

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