Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Becoming aware of our personal reactive tendencies is crucial if we want to make sense of our toxic behaviors, understand why we have permitted these gremlins to continue, and develop a plan for taming them. But in practice, Brackett says, many children never develop those crucial skills. The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks".

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Translating those insights into profitable new and improved services and sustained competitive advantage is another matter altogether. The key lies in developing and exploiting "proprietary data" — data that you and you alone possess. It is difficult to sustain a competitive advantage via infrastructure technologies.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

3 Innovation is DOA. Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. You are on a death trajectory, just waiting for the competition to make you irrelevant. You need to re-energize innovation-fast.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, a leading strategy execution consulting firm focused on the development and delivery of high-impact experiential learning initiatives that drive strategic priorities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2015

Research done by Deloitte’s Center for the Edge in 2013 concluded that “redesigning the work environment will be key to achieving sustainable business performance improvement.”. With all the competing demands and plethora of workspace design trends, perhaps it’s no wonder that Gensler’s 2013 U.S. Workplace Survey noted that “U.S

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. developing talent. Groysberg and Bell administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win — or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Leaders should personally invest more effort in talent development during periods of high change. Clearly, workplaces are now optimized for high levels of workforce engagement. Or are they?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Clearly one reason is remittances: according to the World Bank, over $400 billion was sent back to developing countries in 2012. These transfers feed directly into the domestic economies of emerging markets and boost growth, but they do not necessarily push the country up the development ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability. in the fourth quarter of 2013. A more sensible immigration policy is critical for making that happen. And it’s essential to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now. In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. Such is the power of China’s valuable and difficult-to-replicate competitive advantages. Unlike in the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our longtime client Smule, a leading iPhone app company and frequent innovative marketer, came to us with a simple proposition: “We want a video that will do a million views and introduce our product to 13- to 17-year-old girls.” When not creating a splash online, Mischievious Studios develops and produces Feature Films.

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