Leading Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Why : Purpose and meaning - Humans are a storytelling species, and we value being a part of a meaningful story. But what does this mean? Culture starts with a compelling story.
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
And after interviewing over 300 CEOs, leaders, and executives in 25 countries around the world about their use of storytelling in business, I finally have an answer. They started innovating with their product as well: Self-dosing lids, designer boxes, and packaging so soft you could curl up with it in bed when you’re sick.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2016
To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand. Chalk it up to the power of emotion. Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
No matter how many creative solutions we drum up to improve quality of care and service in the U.S. But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? Spreading innovation at your company.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2011
In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
As high performance on these measures is as important to organizational health as having a solid bottom line, leadership needs to invest in social capital and cultivate its growth with the same focus and discipline that it has applied to financial capital in the past. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Not surprisingly, these archetypes reflect both top-down and bottom-up styles. Community Organizer & Volunteers: The Community Organizer & Volunteers pairing is based on volunteers’ bottom-up, autonomous, independent, decision-making ability and their desire to voice their opinions. The analysis is very balanced.
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