Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions. How well do your leaders perform in these critically important areas?

Self-aware 83

Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

The following 8 items constitute the basic tenants of branding, which if incorporated into your brand management strategy will help build a solid brand regardless of the size of your company or your ad budget: 1. Innovate: Your brand will have at best a limited shelf life if a culture of innovation doesn’t pervade your business.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The word can be uttered by a CEO speaking to employees or Wall Street analysts. Yes, even Toys R Us had a head of innovation.).

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Case in point, Jay Patel, CEO of Wintergreen Hospitality in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. That means, companies will be looking at a variety of factors and more importantly, taking action, to optimize the return on investment of everything from advertising to training budgets. We are beginning to see that taken to the next level.

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Trends Forrester Agility Emotional Intelligence 100

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Their ability to “deliver happiness” and release unexpected ‘must-have’ technologies respectively, are clearly not mere responses to the challenges they incur from their competition. If there’s one fault that can be ascribed to Apple’s competition, it’s not their lack of innovation or creativity.

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Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces? How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Catch Anthony Painter’s pre-Budget statement appearance on Radio 5 Live on BBC Sounds for the next few weeks (conversation begins at 2:45:36).

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets. The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. These leaders are innovators. Future Oriented.

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Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Innovation on a budget. Innovation on a budget. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. Cost reduction.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. Explore the challenges of once-innovative tech giants like Facebook and Google and the factors behind their struggles. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 287

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models.

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Project Innovation Press Release Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Family firms aren’t typically thought of as particularly innovative. However, many family-owned businesses are among the most innovative in their industries. There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. The level of innovation is higher in family firms.

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Innovation Company Long-term CEO 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. We want to come out strong.” Get strategic.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My CEO, Rex Hammond. I'm also talking about those individuals (and I have one in mind right now) who work tirelessly in some unknown village to help their own people rise up out of poverty and ignorance, without a budget and without recognition from the world. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 321

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Last week, Joann Lublin reported in The Wall Street Journal that more CEO jobs are going to internal candidates. According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That is good news for the companies involved.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Many next-generation technology leaders will still come from traditional tech backgrounds, but business leaders with a technology bent will also have a shot.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At the same time, the federal and state governments understand that their budgets can't muster all the ideas, products and services that are needed to solve the problems facing us. Big opportunities exist for organizations challenge existing beliefs, to innovate, and to leverage to create value through new products and services.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. What should they do?

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Why aren''t leaders tapping the crowdfunding capabilities of their own innovation ecosystems to stimulate their people and ideas?

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

Drucker 12

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! As one CEO said to us: "I just want to forget about IT and concentrate on my core business.". Technology? This only results in technology being deployed on time and to budget and works. They never have!

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns. Science fiction can help.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

When PwC asked CEOs to name the most important ingredients for successful innovation, 31% said having the capability for creativity. Watch for pitfalls: commitment can collapse when there are changes in leadership, when tasks get reprioritized and when budgets run short. Perfection can kill progress and stifle innovation.

Content 8

Content Creativity Maturity Commitment 8