Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

What you’re concentrating on can make a big difference in your business, career, and health. As COVID-19 numbers began to climb up in the United States in early March, James contemplated with the other leaders the possibility of postponing their expansion projects. Guiding Back to Efficiency.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Generational shifts at workplace combined with business model disruptions is only adding to the woes of being a leader in the current times. Work is a tool to develop people who, in turn, do great work. Which is true, however, I also believe that available body of work is an opportunity to develop people.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. Iger writes of the key mentors in his career and his relationship with Steve Jobs, George Lucas, and Michael Eisner.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! I wish I could mentor everyone who applied.

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2011

New business models, new ways of working, cooler tools and technologies. Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us to renew our focus on developing a culture of excellence, great leadership, adopting best practices, making them work in our context, continual improvement and superior service to our customers/peers.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2019

To try and ensure they have access to the right skills, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) operate their 4×4 In Schools program, with the Technology Challenge world finals showcasing the ability of teenage participants, who were able to write 200 lines of code in half an hour and successfully move a scale model Range Rover around an indoor track.

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HR Digest

APRIL 26, 2024

Many businesses use a variety of social media platforms these days or at least have a website to showcase their products and services. This can be a useful way for you to understand various aspects of their business model. However, this does not mean you have to go along with things that make you uncomfortable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. Peter Green.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

If that's not challenge enough, you can have the best team in the world and the best product in the world, but if your business model is not sensible and doesn't sustain the enterprise, it really doesn't matter what you set out to accomplish. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons When a project is executed, a plan is established. Constant and comprehensive planning is the secret of many successful projects because planning provides a direction to the team. It helps in setting a precedence on what’s important.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Increased exposure to new ideas and new projects keeps people engaged and healthier, even as the social distancing protocols define new ways for all of us to interact. It is also designed as a marketplace to develop new collaborations and partnerships for older entrepreneurs. . “There is no stronger force than focused passion.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What might business models of the future look like?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

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. The problems arise when projects need to be transferred to the business units for a large-scale launch.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. Design leadership career paths around a few diversified, not targeted, experience requirements.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. He has spoken at five Economic Summits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. “Look at sustainability as part of your business model; don’t look at it as a side initiative.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

Then in the late ‘90s, early 2000s, we had the tech bubble, and the old business model began to come apart. With “clicks” and “eyeballs” as the watchwords, everybody began racing everybody else to get projects launched before the next guy did. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Or like Blake Mycoskie (founder of TOMS shoes), who has created an unconventional business model. Because people have a hard time responding to an abstract idea, the idea entrepreneur develops practices (and personally models them, too) that lead people to the idea through action. They draw other people into their idea.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Examine business contacts from the past. This is a great way to grow business because you know each other. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One of the great satisfactions of being a leader is that you get to be a teacher, sharing the wisdom you’ve acquired over the course of a career with young colleagues hungry for time-tested advice. “I concluded, to my horror, that we had developed a way of attacking the problem that was inherently limited,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

But building an internal consulting group is an unprecedented endeavor for many companies, and because best practices have yet to spread widely, internal consulting groups vary greatly in how they operate and the business impacts they are able to achieve. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

workforce — are now freelancers or contractors, and that number is projected to rise to 43% by 2020. Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. Don’t fall in love with your first idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. It was decided that, given the company’s size, project selection should filter out new product ideas unless, at maturity, they could be expected to generate $50 million in revenue. Modeling Nonlinear Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Luckily, thanks to projected business growth and flexible organizational parameters, the manager was able to shift the new hire to another department and a more challenging job that suited his ambitions better. We developed an intensive training program to equip him for the new role and ensure a smooth transition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

She's working in a remote area of war-torn Northern Uganda to develop an organic sesame business as part of Gulu Agricultural Development Company , which provides more than 40,000 smallholder farmers with access to international markets. But he chose his country of origin to fulfill his personal commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne. Reorgs are an opportunity for you to “take control of your career” says Spreitzer, but you must also make sure you and your manager agree on where you should be focusing. It catapulted my career.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Open source software enables entrepreneurs to stand up businesses capabilities quickly and cheaply; Sourceforge , for example, is a platform allowing 2.7 million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. The biggest risks taken by entrepreneurs are not product, service, or process innovations, but business model innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

B Corp certification encouraged more “whole-systems thinking” around our social and environmental practices, which led Cabot to develop even more robust customer and consumer programs, cut operating costs, and strengthen our brand reputation as a sustainability-minded company. Our story is not unique.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

To become more systematic about culture design, we use a tool that our company, Strategyzer, and Yves Pigneur co-developed with Gray. Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Culture will emerge through constant care and nurturing. It’s called the Culture Map.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet." This seems like common sense; so why is it so hard? Three words: fear of failure. In my opinion, Beth Comstock and Col.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. They were asked to describe their solutions, the benefits to the intended audiences, and to list up to five hypotheses that could be tested before the end of their six-month project.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

The name itself describes the business model. PFS is working with 40 food processors on more than 140 projects in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, and most recently Ethiopia — and we are looking for more. How can you apply what you do best to reduce poverty and increase economic activity in the developing world?

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