Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. MOXIE : The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership by John Baldoni Moxie is full of great stories and examples making it immediately relatable and practical. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. The data was gathered at the end of 2013 by a third-party research expert.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? The underlying truth for virtually every large system’s implementation initiative is that success demands leadership and oversight that holds itself accountable for assuring best practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Similarly, telling workers what to do at every turn won''t lead to the degree of agility that organizations now need.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Think of your company in its entirety, or perhaps select a strategically important element of it, such as a growth area upon which future success depends or its primary source of income, and consider the following two questions: 1. Each state poses a different leadership challenge.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

We are at the early stages of seeing large organizations outsource specific services such as HR, accounting, payroll, and IT support while breaking themselves up into smaller, more agile enterprises to address specific markets, geographies, or customers. Then become someone else''s customer for everything else. Structural changes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. These early successes demonstrated the potential value in HR and Procurement collaboration, but breaking silos required structural changes as well.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. These are the things that will create more value for the customer and enable the enterprise''s agility. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point. Getting Started.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. …If failure is the prerequisite of success, businesses can no longer afford not to encourage risk taking. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Executive leadership has your back. Our development team went Agile. Crucially, we redefined success. In each of the first seven months of 2013, PBS.org topped ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox as the most-visited network TV site, according to comScore. The idea was to deliver a clear message: Move fast. Iterate fast.

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