Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.” How do we do that?

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. Yes — because my preference is to invest in people I know and like. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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.’ ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. There can be no reward without risk.

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