Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Why do many business leaders resist it? The risk, of course, is that HiPPOs push bad ideas, either through status or persuasion, and resist experiments that prove them wrong. 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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Skip Prichard

JULY 8, 2019

Build A Culture of Innovation. Innovation. The buzz word of the decade that is used, overused, and abused, creating what Alf Rehn calls “innovation fatigue.” I had the opportunity to speak with Alf about his new book Innovation for The Fatigued: How to build a culture of deep creativity. I mean, it does make sense.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 30, 2010

A presentation should take the audience on a journey from their ordinary world into your special world, gaining new insights and skills from your special world. The audience makes a conscious decision to cross the threshold into your world; they are not forced. Have you experienced this path in your presentations?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

So if your audience has style, and wants to know where to find more, lead them to it. I’m sure we could all go without hearing the word “innovator” for a few years, but anyone who is spending money (antique collectors exempt) is also seeking the “latest, greatest.”. Which of course is where it gets tricky.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 4, 2023

Think eliminating poverty, stopping climate change, achieving racial equity, or building the innovative organizational culture your company needs to survive. It’s not about having the top job or the ability to command huge audiences. Leadership position and leadership team are outdated terms from a model that no longer works.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know. This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2023

Think eliminating poverty, stopping climate change, achieving racial equity, or building the innovative organizational culture your company needs to survive. It’s not about having the top job or the ability to command huge audiences. Leadership position and leadership team are outdated terms from a model that no longer works.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

And so, I have tried to take this journey with my readers, clients, and audiences—we truly are on this beautiful journey together! So the first lesson is to resist the urge to label something “unmeasurable” just because measuring it is hard. Diversify your sources : Innovation thrives no cross-pollination.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Running a truly innovative company means constantly improving your innovation culture and process. Running a successful innovation ecosystem, however, demands more. Successful innovation ecosystems make people outside the company measurably smarter, richer, and more innovative. Who are we making more innovative?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 18, 2017

They are also more innovative and exciting. Rose resisted at first. The audience watched as Luke faded away. You don’t have the people or the revenue or the resources to grow larger. But your smallness offers something else. Smaller organizations are able to be more nimble, changing course at a moments notice.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

The talk in your organization focuses relentlessly on generating innovative, disruptive ideas. I encourage you to read David Burkus’ article on the factors that increase the likelihood that your innovative idea will be adopted. Outright resistance is often personal. HBR Must Reads on Innovation. Innovation Book.

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 19, 2012

Recently, Prashanti Ganesh from The New Indian Express interviewed me for her article on innovative business cards. A few months ago, I was speaking at a conference on the topic of personal branding, there were around 80 people or so in the audience. I couldn’t resist smiling myself. RS:I never thought of it that way.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them. Doesn’t interpret concerns as resistance. They’ll be more innovative. I originally published this post on LeaderChat.org and thought the Leading with Trust audience would enjoy it as well.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

→ View from the corner cubicle: leadership lessons from Tomer Strolight Posted on March 4, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment TorStar Digital is one of Canada’s fastest growing, most innovative media companies. " 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We take our lead from the dancers, not the audience.". That will give us some insight into other audiences and markets we should target.". There are some people in this building who will resist." Why do we want to ask what our audience thinks?" Of course, I know our audience is important. Henry said. "We

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lower levels of creativity and innovation potential. There is a negative correlation between EQ and many of the traits that predispose individuals toward creativity and innovation. Gemma’s high EQ may help her empathize and deliver a message that feels right to the audience — this is often a good thing.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 17, 2008

I couldn’t resist noticing a bunch of flash card sized photos of Indian Gods there. You can still think of ways of providing something valuable to the target audience. Last week I was at an Indian restaurant called Bhavika Foods in Sunnyvale picking up something to eat. They were so cool that I ended up picking up a few of them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. If you don't like how things are going, tell a different story. Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges. You might know all of that, but are you fully embracing it? HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. If you don't like how things are going, tell a different story. Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

And it's not like they were ignoring innovation. Margins were low, commodity vendors were lining up, record labels offered resistance, they did not have any IP or any DRM and nothing but Mac users as target audience. Consolidation is a natural and well-reasoned practice for maturing industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. Shape your story for the audience. “Think about the language you’ll use for each of your audiences,” says Ashford. Your aim is to “reduce resistance, bring people on board, and band allies and resources together.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

As psychologist Walter Mischel showed in his now famous “ Marshmallow Test , ” children who were able to resist the urge for immediate pleasure prospered later in life academically, professionally, and socially compared to their more impulsive peers. It’s a trait any manager should value among members of their team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Providers also increasingly must communicate with groups ranging from internal stakeholders to large audiences at external meetings. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

For one thing, to attract a wider audience, it was held within the confines of San Francisco Bay. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” What we heard suggested six pieces of advice that leaders of land-based businesses might do just as well to heed. Cross-fit your company. Make your luck.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When they had finished, the great man himself, who had been sitting at a table in the audience eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, walked to the front of the room. It has done this by popularizing one of the two or three really important financial innovations of the past 50 years, the index fund.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. I enjoyed teaching that case for many years. Why was he doing it?

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

It’s selecting the audience. You really want to hone a message that is resonating with a small audience. So “O” is all about overcoming resistance. It’s all about team collaboration and how Edison taught people collaboration and innovation. How does one put themselves on “SHOUT”?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Every storytelling exercise should begin by asking: Who is my audience and what is the message I want to share with them? And whenever possible, you should endeavor to “make the audience or employees the hero,” says Morgan. But when the storyteller talks about how great they are, the audience shuts down.” Start with a message.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

.” Complete with a “Wheel of Songs” that audience members could spin to select the next song, a live DJ, opera-themed drinks, and costumes for attendees to try on, it was designed to remove the intimidation often felt by those new to opera and introduce a younger, hipper audience to operatic music.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

An online magazine focused on serious ideas, Nerve built a loyal audience but its sex-centric brand turned off advertisers. “We had the brand and the audience, and were then able to build an online dating business that was far more powerful as a business model than our core content execution.” Resist instincts to kill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. There are many different types of insurgencies, ranging from terrorism (such as the Taliban in Afghanistan) to non-violent resistance (such as Gandhi in colonial India). We don't usually think of consumers as a threat to our business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Radically innovate while optimizing operations. The nature of digital offerings means that the cost of incorporating external digital innovations, for example off-premises (cloud-based) digital services, will often be less than creating and developing these solutions internally. To lead this transformation, they must: 1.

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