Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Shocking headlines emerged in 2013 when households across the UK proclaimed broadband access to be more important to them than water. For some it was regarded as an absurd statement, but new research from the University of Birmingham argues that free internet access should be regarded as a fundamental human right.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

Develop Relationships with All of Your Staff – Aspects of difference create very different frames of reference. After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2013

There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information. Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. So do the offices of W.L.

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Rajesh Setty

APRIL 26, 2015

Here is the chart for your quick reference: Here are quick observations with reference to 2014: 1. The Gorilla of the revenue sources continues to be Ad revenues from Google Websites growing at 20.48% from year 2013. Online users at the end of 2014 stand at 2,925.249,355 and has grown 7.85% from 2013. Radical Innovations.

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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. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

Sometimes called charisma, the CEO was referring to that special quality some people possess or learn that allows them to authentically show up and command respect as leaders. “I need her to have a bigger presence,” he told me, “because her new role not only includes presenting the numbers, but instilling investor confidence in those numbers.

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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. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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). Each person will have the handout: Goal Setting and Action Planning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey. Innovation eliminated certain responsibilities for salespeople; yet at the same time, new responsibilities emerged, and entirely new kinds of companies and industries formed.

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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. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. Almost 1,800 families enrolled in Pathway of Hope and 80% were referred to services and other community resources. This hands-on and holistic program represents a fundamental procedural shift, one that’s bearing fruit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. In our analyses of these conversations, we looked at how entrepreneurial potential was expressed and how the financiers referred to men and women generally.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Auto industry Leading teams'

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. People have a longer lifespan with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 The marketplaces also have played an important role in referring eligible Americans for Medicaid coverage. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). Fostering innovation. Fewer uninsured people. Technological challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Then, with the introduction of the iPhone, they didn''t.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Today we fondly refer to these extraordinary American innovators as Haight-Ashbury hippies. Who were these people and how did they do it?

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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. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Consistent with this portrayal, Thorstein Veblen, one of the biggest theorists on status signaling, suggested in 1899 that living a leisurely life and not working (what he refers to as “conspicuous abstention from labor”) is the most powerful way to signal one’s status in the eyes of others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Huggy Rao and I like to refer to scaling challenges as the “ Problem of More ” because they always involve getting some existing seed of excellence to take root in more people and more places. My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Aggressive supply-side reforms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In May 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released CMS Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) inpatient data that contain discharge information for 100% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using hospital inpatient services. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

Indeed, the practice became so pervasive that the Norwegians started to refer to it as ‘tax porn’. What’s more, a similar analysis of happiness-income relationships in Germany, where no such pay transparency is present, showed that it remained stable over nearly 30 years from 1985-2013.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Forty years on, the early feminist terminology sounds quaint — she labels her 10-point plan a "women's emphasis program," for instance, and her references to "Women's Lib," "the woman problem," "consciousness raising," and "feminine talent" just sound laughable today. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 4, 2020

Data on happiness and life satisfaction was collected between 1985 and 2013, and the analysis found that the 2001 digitization of the tax transparency process resulted in a 29% increase in the relationship between happiness and income, with a 21% increase in the relationship between life satisfaction and income.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. Coontz's article presents an embarrassing graphic showing that the US is the only developed country on the planet with no paid maternity leave, let alone more modern European innovations like parental leave for both parents. It seems essential in 2013 to recognize the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, and visualize data. Excel developed a mind of its own in 2013 with this feature. Pre-2013 this was possible, but relied on a combination of functions (FIND, LEFT, &, etc). Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Relationships with referring physicians and the emergency medical services community were broken. But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Our patient- and staff-satisfaction scores were essentially zero. Set the standard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This has the potential to reduce the concentration of the very top artists and albums, while also helping music lovers find what economists refer to as the “long tail” of the industry. Artists like Drake and Beyoncé show that the concept of an album is still relevant, in part because of innovations such as the visual album.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and his wife Shannon, Lululemon’s original athletic wear designer, was not one of his finest moments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2013, the second year of the Pioneer ACO program , just two of these ACOs accounted for more than $36 million in savings – close to 40% of the entire program that year. How did they do it? We helped tackle this problem through choice architecture by modifying the ordering screen of the providers’ electronic health record.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The problem is that to date there has been little work to document the extent of Arab contributions to American innovation. innovation. innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. ” On page 529, there is one parenthetic reference to “stock options.”

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