Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 25, 2016

Advancing to the head of a company requires some additional leadership competencies that aren’t quite as important in lesser positions. Without vision, a leader will simply continue to execute the existing business model, often getting left behind as the economy shifts, customer/client preferences change, and competitors adapt.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The problem with this tactic is new employees are afraid of rocking the boat in the eyes of current ‘experts.’ Embrace new ideas, new methods and always question the assumptions which define your business model. The post Positive Change: Yesterday Is Interesting But Irrelevant appeared first on General Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Let me take this thinking one step further…I simply wouldn’t recommend clients accept capital from investors who can’t wield influence on their behalf, and add significant non-financial value to their business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

Reshaping Employee Efficiency With Generative AI’s Impact On Workplace KPMG ’s human capital advisor Felicia Lyon believes that strategic tasks were to benefit the most in reshaping workplace efficiency with generative AI as employees would find more time to focus if tactical tasks were automated. Image Courtesy – Freepik.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. Can you give some examples of leaders diagnosing the right problem instead of falling for the alluring tactics outlined in your book? Subscribe to Leadership Insights , the blog that transforms.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

I describe System Leadership as the the ability to lead on both digital and physical areas. More tactically, we saw companies with strong stamina have multiple business lines over time in order to add diversity to their business models. Photo credit: Akshay Nanavati.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. In the military realm, we use the Battle of Normandy as an ultimate example of both strategic and tactical agility.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Could you copy this tactic and focus laser-like on one main product? No late fees, as a business model where the renter must replace each returned DVD benefits from tardy returns. ? This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership. Shortly after becoming CEO, she announced that Xerox’s business model was unsustainable and that the company would confront reality then make the tough decisions necessary to restore the Xerox’s competitiveness. Examples of Integrity in Action.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. Fausto helped us grow from nothing into a team of 15 people and about 500 farmers, at which point Fausto’s leadership started to falter. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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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. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Presidents.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 31, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. I wonder thinking of this business model. If someone has a problem with her business model or tactics, they can avoid getting into a transaction with her.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The new business model comprises of less surveillance and control by management and the empowering of workers to use technology to execute their mundane, but yet required, tasks, making the way for new ideas, innovations, and inventions. About the Author. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m curious about how leading across generations is impacting your business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

It’s time to think of business strategies for a digital world — rather than thinking of a stand-alone “digital” strategy. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team’s success.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. You REALLY should subscribe to our newsletter too - you will get exclusive content that is NOT featured on this blog once or twice a month.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Seeing that sensibility as a series of tactical opportunities rather than a profoundly strategic organizing principle is a huge mistake. In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. Are there opportunities for new entrants and competitors to disrupt the existing business model?

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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. They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

To achieve sustainable growth, companies must better integrate product innovation with business model, process, and service innovations. To generate real wealth, how many share-increasing-tactics remain to be tested beyond the ones already tried, such as buy-backs, spin-offs, and other forms of financial engineering?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The tension grew as he described a competitive threat that targeted the heart of their business model. The shock of the “bad dream” had been central to helping the company extend its leadership for many years to come. Tension heightened as leaked advertisements and price plans were circulated. We have a month.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Some of the best current lessons on how to adapt to our changing business environment come from the realm of military doctrine. Army War College were told repeatedly they were preparing for leadership roles in a "Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous" (VUCA) world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Embracing data and analytics is not a tactic; it’s a transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

The role and effect of technology should be a part of conversations on business decisions, and the CIO should have a pertinent and relevant point of view. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy. Then, decide which tasks need to be done manually vs. automatically. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

So it shouldn’t be surprising when a new business model, such as ridesharing, disrupts existing systems and causes friction between entrepreneurs and local government officials, right? The course teaches four tactics to cope with the challenge: lean experimentation, scaling, partnering, and storytelling.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They know that acquiring the benefits of scale requires ruthless focus on a well-defined core business and a commitment to building the systems and processes to support it. But they aren’t wedded to their business model—they are wedded to what will serve their customers best. Third, insurgents find out.

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Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 9

Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

This post on leadership challenges was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2019. What’s different about leadership today? I address, advise, and teach leadership skills to hundreds of leaders each year. My research shows that only one in four leaders feels prepared when they assume formal leadership roles.

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Ethics Business Model Follow-up Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Instead, it's environmental — and much of the blame rests at the feet of the country's political leadership. s political leadership is increasingly doing that, too, by catering to the largest American companies. This approach doesn't work if your competitor doesn't respect your IP laws.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. Innovation is the key to the future — innovation in business models, business processes as well as products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. has taken in the fight against global climate change: The S&P 500 and Dow Jones stock indexes rose to record highs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Given that energized innovators like these are disrupting many existing products, and the business models behind them, you can feel threatened by them. The guiding concepts in this view of leadership are openness, self-election, continuous prototyping, robust platforms, and low coordination costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. How does the company deal with dramatic change?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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