Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum. Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? What's now being recognised is that the NHS's ills don't just stem from staff shortages or budget constraints. So where better to learn how stronger leadership can make a difference than the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2019

Own Your Part: Leadership amounts to wanting more for your people than we want from them. And yet as long as our doors remain open, there is no final endpoint, only new challenges, problems, innovations, and solutions. All of us are working within our own set of constraints, goals, and unexpected life events that shape our journey.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2014

30 January 1933 | Why Leadership Matters by @jamesstrock. A Myth That Thwarts Leadership by @SusanMazza. De-Clutter Your Leadership by Mark Miller. Leadership Gone Viral via @stratandbiz. Leadership: A Career Choice or a Constraint? Leadership: Developing Better Bosses at Google by @wallybock.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Blinded by presumptions about the value of their status and unaware of the cultural and status constraints under which subordinates may labor, leaders intent on speed and efficiency often miss essential information. Get Out of Your Own Way Women’s leadership has been pronounced dead as a topic of interest many times over the last 25 years.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 20, 2014

Leadership. Some companies thrive on innovative cultures. This is a corollary to leadership and strategy but it is also a core value that must permeate the entire organization. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Mindsets are free. Simplicity.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

A passage in an Eileen Fisher brochure entitled "Simply to Be Ourselves": The underlying philosophy of our design--no constraints, freedom of expression--extends to the company itself, which is run in a loosely structured manner that allows for an open exchange of ideas. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. What did Schor do?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of the things I enjoy about my work is having conversations with people about the nature of leadership, and the challenges and opportunities leaders face in this continually evolving, interconnected business environment.

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How To Core Competence Constraint Learning-by-Doing 229

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. That finding has stuck with me.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In one study, a matched sample of 200 employees and managers participated, with employees rating behaviors such as MYB, job routinization, and laissez-faire leadership, while managers assessed employee job performance. Consequently, employees may feel disconnected from evolving expectations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

Here are the 5 best bargains in the world of business: Leadership heads the list. This is a corollary to leadership but it is also a core value that must permeate the entire organization. Some companies thrive on an innovative culture. The good news is that these bargains can be unleashed from your existing overheads.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The review synthesises the findings of these journal papers to examine more closely the process of MNE growth including facilitators and constraints relating to growth,” the researchers say. “We We compared research in this area and found that one under-examined area was firm-specific learning, so the paper highlights that.”.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Perhaps innovators and entrepreneurs aren’t more risk-o-philic, they just define risk differently – not following one’s passion and purpose is a greater risk than financial or reputational security. We can all learn from their transformative innovations. ” Well, someone = us ! What drove this level of risk?

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LDRLB

JANUARY 16, 2014

Leadership heads the list. This is a corollary to leadership but it is also a core value that must permeate the entire organization. Some companies thrive on an innovative culture. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Simplicity. Doing less, better.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

having fewer options to assess based upon the new found time constraint. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.) watching things grind to a halt as you scramble to evaluate options, and; 2.)

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A recent study from Lancaster University Management School explores how job sharing can help improve the number of women working in senior leadership roles. ” Flexible leadership. The authors suggest that one reason for this may be a lack of women in academia full stop, with just 26% of professors being female. .

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 25, 2015

It was a wonderful, heart-felt moment that gave us a glimpse into what it was like to work under Jon Stewart’s leadership at The Daily Show. It’s this very philosophy of leadership that I saw past and present team members of The Daily Show celebrating on Stewart’s last show.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. What I’ve discovered is again and again, is it’s actually the underlying leadership style inherent in the business that has the biggest impact.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Born between 1965 and 1978, they are the bench strength for leadership, the skill bearers and knowledge experts corporations will rely on to gain competitive advantage in the coming decades. Approaching or already in their prime of their careers, they are ready and willing to lead. Bring them out of the shadows. Test their wings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Second, it at least feels as if this sort of behavior and the career consequences that result seem to be occurring more frequently now. First, as my friend Bob Sutton noted in a conversation, these behaviors seem to be confined mostly to men. We seldom hear of powerful women who can't control their urges.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. Rule 3: Embrace constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. If you want to be perceived as leadership material, do you suppress your difference or embrace it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Or more correctly, their paths: in our experience at Ziba, we’ve seen two distinct career paths among creative professionals, each stemming from its own set of motivations, and demanding its own approach to management. Where they differ is in their long-term professional path. The Creative Director. The Master Craftsman.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

An optional full-day retreat in November 2017 attracted more than 10% of UCAR’s staff and approximately 85% of our senior leadership to discuss future diversity and inclusion efforts and strategic planning. Personal issues and career paths are inevitably intertwined. Keep the focus on workplace issues, not personal ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The parallels with business are clear: Stars are a crucial but perhaps fragile source of innovation and competitive advantage. And they faced big constraints. Harness the power of competition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic). and of course the compensation and benefits.

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