Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

E VERYONE WANTS to be an innovator. Every organization wants to be innovative; it doesn’t matter if it’s a church, a for-profit or non-profit business, or a government agency. To not be innovative is to risk being left behind. But how many of us are truly innovative? It requires skills that too few have developed.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses. Handle Consumer Complaints.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Another context element is that this policy applies to call centers, which employ a large number of people doing jobs that are similar, easily described, and familiar to most applicants. Let’s “retool” the Zappos strategy through the staffing supply chain , to see how their innovation can spur a great conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. They also worked with the call center and IT to create a “chat live” button to make it easier for customers to complete forms online before they drifted off to a competing site.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. Organizational barriers are often the culprit. You and Your Team Series.

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