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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling.

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The Fall of the Alphas

First Friday Book Synopsis

Martin’s Press (2013) This is another “time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” Tom Davenport (collective judgment) Lao Tzu Peter Senge (organizational learning) Robert Greenleaf (servant leadership) St.

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. A business has to create value, usually measured in the form of profit, and if you can't lead a team to do that more often than not, you're not likely to get many chances to stand in the center ring.

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Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College

Mike Cardus

April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices. Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.

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Marshall Goldsmith 15 Coaches Winners + Much More!

Marshall Goldsmith

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015, co-founder Strategyzer, Osterwalder Strategy Facilitation, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Doug Winnie – ActionCOACH #1 small business coach 2016. at Walgreens.

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Tribal or Transformational? How to grow your startup when new business rolls in

Strategy Driven

Should the old business stick around or should it be shut down? Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith. Consider leaving a comment!