Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Innovators think and do things differently in order to achieve extraordinary success. Our research indicates that whether they are CEOs, senior executives, sports team owners, or film directors, game changers who stand head and shoulders above the rest share a common set of qualities that we call the innovation mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

We suggest that HR leaders make minimum interventions in trying to influence communities of growth. Short term: A CCA does not represent a new position or a new career: it is a temporary place in which the individual can channel their ideas or abilities, and once the project is finished CCAs are dissolved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Being able to negotiate, influence, engage, convince, and persuade others is how things get done in organizations — and how organizations decide what’s worth doing at all. Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career. The act of listening, actively and thoroughly, is the most powerful influence technique there is.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type can use to attract new customers. With the advent of the Internet, businesses are learning that the influence of what you say about yourself in ads or even on social media simply pales in comparison to what customers say about you.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Ballmer had done his job, but the strategic needs of the organization had shifted.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. How could this be?, Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. That is leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As co-CEO of the design and architectural firm Gensler , I’ve spent my career designing workplaces and studying the link between design and business performance. This has been shown to lead to greater organizational productivity and suggests that meeting an employee’s need for autonomy can influence motivation and performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain.

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