HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

For the CEO and founder of Base Culture, Jordann Windschauer, this read helped her realize the vast importance of the journey, even if you have a fair share of fender benders. Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

But CEOs are just as human as the rest of us. No one wanted to become a “used to be,” in the sense of “Didn’t you used to be a big CEO?” One investment banker is still at the bank, but is now working exclusively on projects that make the world a better place. Innovation Leadership'

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Projects are always short. That's a lot to bite off in a very few words. It's meant to be.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And that can become a big problem as illustrated by Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape, who once reportedly said: “If we have data, let’s look at the data. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Startup CEOs need to know how to act once they realize that a new revenue stream is growing faster than the original business concept. As CEO and founder of two of the fastest growing digital advertising companies in the country, I’ve had to make that decision twice. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said something to a shareholder that you very rarely hear: take a hike. Cook went on a tirade — or at least what passes for one from the very cool and collected CEO. Cook went on a tirade — or at least what passes for one from the very cool and collected CEO. I’m paraphrasing, but only slightly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! presents Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO - Leadership Battle of the Sexes. In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. When the company had 60 or 70 people working at its Palo Alto headquarters, founder and then CEO David Kelley (now Chairman) did a masterful job of orchestrating the “Monday morning,” a weekly 9:00 am gathering.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Skouras, the company’s CEO, thought that sounded like a swell idea. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. But they must learn it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. Even the sitting CEO who knew the three finalists as well as anybody was surprised. His challenges will be enormous.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

—Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

CEO Matt Sanchez explained the decision to jettison its publisher properties as an inability to do both tech and content at the same time: The conclusion we’ve come to, and one lots of media companies wrestle with is, do you build brands or do you build platforms? Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. Encourage innovations on the theme.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Why Lululemon''s "CEO Wanted" Ad Is Bad for the Brand Fast Company.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you stalled in a project at work, waiting on someone else to take initiative to get things moving? It doesn't always mean you have authority over a project. Honda CEO Takanobu Ito may be demonstrating that concept in real time with his recent actions after the release of the new Honda Civic quickly fell short of expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. ” Marshall Goldsmith , the well-known CEO coach, agrees. Own your time. Help others strategically.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. He eventually headed up the company’s development business before becoming the company’s president in 2013. ” Adopt an office voice. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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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. Teams can also create whatever workspace layout best supports their project, moving desks into a circular break-out space or a long row of desks, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Change leaders are visionaries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

According to a report in The Atlantic , one in four Americans reports having no one with whom they can discuss important matters, compared with one in ten 30 years ago, and a 2013 survey conducted by Lifeboat found that the average American had only one real friend. You’ll also be more productive and innovative together.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

So I called former CEO and regular HBR contributor Nilofer Merchant. Her HBR book was named a best business book of 2012 by Fast Company, she gave an acclaimed TED talk, and she was given the Thinkers50 “Future Thinker” award in 2013. The same is true for a book, or any creative project. I wanted to know.

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