Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2020. His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg­mental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminous clarity and su­preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action. In B2B and B2C?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Having effective leaders can help a company achieve its goals and maximize efficiency. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the “natives’” point of view — through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

From talent acquisition hacks to building a kickass company culture, these books will get you fired up to tackle the ever-evolving world of work. This list unveils the best HR books of 2024, packed with insights to help you navigate the hybrid model, understand the changing employee landscape, and future-proof your HR strategies.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I N HIS BOOK Thank You for Being Late , author and award-winning journalist Tom Friedman argues that to understand the twenty-first century, you must realize that “the planet’s three largest forces”—technology, globalization, and climate change—are accelerating all at once. As a business leader, you already get that.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. I recently had the opportunity to ask him about his work and his book. “Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation.”

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Conference planners want to provide insights on various topics, based on their scurrent challenges or upcoming event theme – and there are many subjects that might be a good fit. And your conference’s impact will extend well beyond their session.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Establish a culture where people with aligned goals can thrive and have fun. Some of the same technologies he had helped bring to the clinic became critical to his own survival. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. Develop living plans that are regularly updated.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2024

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. Blog Post ).

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

The ability to foster collaboration among and across departments can significantly enhance productivity, innovation, and overall organizational performance. According to a study by Forbes , collaboration drives workplace performance and innovation. For your team to be truly productive, collaboration is crucial.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

Startups are good at innovation for many reasons, but the two most important ones are people and culture. One of the solutions that some larger companies have tried is to create an innovative startup within an existing business. These internal startups strive to be innovative, but tend to become more incremental.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “If we think about how technology actually operates, we realize that there is not one point in the history of humanity when technology is not directly related to specific cultures and values, beliefs and biases, religious beliefs or gender stances,” the author argues.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The first part of the book discusses how to become a 10x company and attract 10x talent. Ralph Perrine, the director of the Innovation Garage, highlighted the gap between the excitement of the innovator and well, everyone else. There is the talent, and then there are the people managing and developing that talent. It’s denial.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 5, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

We updated health and safety procedures, employed technology to streamline billing and appointment scheduling, digitized our designs, added retail elements, and provided respectable wages for our artists and employees to let them know their importance to the business. Invest in hiring the right people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Guest post from Susanna Camp and Jonathan Littman As a leader, you shape the ideas, provide the direction, set the goals. We spent many years interviewing and writing about talented people and teams for our new book The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed. Diversity and complementary skill sets are key.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2021

Back in 2001, what we know today as the Agile Manifesto was born , by the hand of several American CEOs of the technology sector (software) and they decided to combine various ideas to propose an alternative to the slow working methods that were not responding to the current ones needs, before your organization and your customers.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

That’s what Chris Duffey, creative technologist says about this incredible technology revolutionizing industries the world over. His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. A Book Co-Written by AI (!).

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

Get on board - start by reading the book (use the code FRIENDS for free shipping), listening to Victor’s TEDxWindyCity talk and checking out his new “school”, The Experience Institute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Victor has hacked his MBA and learned more than he would have in school.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. A smarter normal.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2019

For example, you might think that designing a product to solve your book closing is not possible. Most of the books kept shutting, wasting valuable time and energy as the students had to find the page again. So off they went to their Design and Technology Lab to experiment making prototypes. The Other Person. The Observer.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

We all know that companies compete fiercely to stay ahead of the technological curve. Moreover, when 3,000 corporate leaders from 25 countries were surveyed as part of General Electric’s Global Innovation Barometer , their top concern was “a need to better align the education system with business needs.” A win for corporations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee. The Art of Clear Thinking is a book that will change how you interact with the world around you. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

It must innovate and re-create its products or services but equally the enterprise itself.” – The Executive in Action, 1996 Can you think of examples of seemingly successful businesses that ultimately failed because they did not innovate and recreate everything from their products/services/processes to the basic fabric of the organization?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

ALIEN THINKING is a book about the importance of thinking differently and questioning your assumptions to come up with breakthrough solutions. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. Talk about the findings of a testosterone measurement study and its relationship to innovation.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 22, 2022

Many organizations are trying to find the model that works best for their specific needs and goals. Well, most companies are saying that employees’ physical presence in the office is required to foster a healthy organizational culture, or that in-person interaction is required for innovative and creative work to take place. Absolutely.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. Some leaders consciously acknowledge this fundamental paradox.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Help them set goals, and show them how those objectives contribute to the organization’s higher goals. Improving job performance by learning new technology or giving them new responsibilities or assignments to gain new skills. He’s written five books and thousands of blog posts about software and writing.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. Some leaders consciously acknowledge this fundamental paradox.

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 28, 2014

The following is an excerpt from the book, The Age of the Customer, by Jim Blasingame. This excerpt is from his book: We are a society in search of trust. Along with technology and innovation, trust is one of the most powerful forces in business today. In his book The Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R. Washington.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. An instructive book, complete with a fictional town named Busyville offers us a blueprint to solve this problem. More strategy.

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