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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/1/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tellis HBR How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture? Your Survival Instinct Is Killing Youin the 21st Century'

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Innovation Execution

Coaching Tip

Source: Vijay Govindarajan: Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization. Related articles. How Good Are You in Managing Office Politics? Books Business Coaching Failure Leadership Success Work life' The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks".

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved positive change in key leadership behaviors – and become more effective leaders – as determined by their key stakeholders. I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. Therefore, we only focus on changing leadership behavior.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people. Further Reading.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. His life was set. Further Reading. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.