Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

One investment banker is still at the bank, but is now working exclusively on projects that make the world a better place. ” Through his example, I learned that making a difference means a lot more than making a living. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

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. This failure to understand and appreciate their true benefits has given rise to seven myths that undermine innovation and are described in Experimentation Works.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. Leading by example, he inspires others to be creative.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. Or you can visit companies in different fields altogether – many work realities are universal, especially around management methodologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

You can, too, if either you have a Daphne in your corner and you're willing to listen, or if you otherwise come to acknowledge your role as a leader is more about the long-term example you set than the specific offering you at the moment champion. Projects are always short. Where would you prefer to focus? Careers can be short or long.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. For example, consider e-mail. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders are responsible by example and expect the same from their people. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. Great leaders don’t just lead by example – they set the standard.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. For example, at the end of World War II, the people of Japan faced historically unprecedented difficulties. Suppressing Innovation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. People will be asked to join into teams of no greater than 6 (need to discuss teams).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

One of the most common efforts has been to create affinity groups within the company for people sharing a specific identity (a “Women’s Leadership Network” for example) so that participants can mentor each other and discuss ways to overcome the shared challenges they face. Making a Corporate Community of Aspiration Work.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2014

This meant that machines could deal with the exploding growth of non-numeric information that is getting hard for humans to keep track of: to name two prominent and crucially important examples, keeping up with all of the knowledge coming out of human genome research , or keeping track of all the medical information in patient records.

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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. Barclays Bank PLC and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are great examples. To identify leaders, start by looking for people who care deeply.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. ” At Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, for example, every employee is considered a safety inspector regardless of job or title. Leaders must lead by example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. We could add our own favorite example: pinball. Etsy’s creators benefit from global markets for sourcing raw materials, for example. cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. A current example might be a hospital not putting a hook for an IV bag in the patient bathroom (a problem often avoided through use of Lean Design methods).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Although it is premature to declare this the greatest example of misgovernance in modern U.S. Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A simple example is the all-hands meeting. My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. This is only one of countless examples of the problem with most corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts these days. For great brands, CSV doesn’t simply draw upon the company’s innovation capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In my research on innovators, I like to draw the distinction between “path finders” and “path creators.” He is the originator of the “social streets” movement now spreading across Italy, so the innovation he created literally involves a path: the street in which he and his family live in Bologna.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the UN informs us that over the course of the 21 st century, Africa’s share of the world’s population will nearly double, from 13.1 Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. But there is progress being made.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For an example, look at Medium , a platisher that raised $25 million in 2014. Kickstarter is another example of a platform that began with publisher-like editorial oversight. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

What can we learn from these examples of digital dreams deferred? Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. For example, Dr. Bazile began reading GHDonline daily in 2010. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking.

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