Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. How did you develop it? What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment?

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. Even if your leadership has never used “fight” rhetoric before, a question like “what are we fighting for?” As evidence, consider a purpose-driven company that, for a long-time, had a pretty bad mission statement.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. Even if your leadership has never used “fight” rhetoric before, a question like “what are we fighting for?” As evidence, consider a purpose-driven company that, for a long-time, had a pretty bad mission statement.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. Less prosaic.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

When only seven percent of all employees trust their leaders, can you blame Harvard's Barbara Kellerman for calling the modern practice of leadership development a failure? She pulls few punches in this Strategy+Business excerpt from her book, "The End of Leadership.". There is scant evidence. There is scant evidence.

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Leadership Development Development Disruptive Innovation Leadership 10

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. Tell us a little bit about that model and how it kind of corrects the older models.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. Thanks again to Max Carbone for sharing his insights with our group. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership. How to Develop a Lifelong Learning Habit by @dorothydalton. From @PaulJSohn How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career [Infographic].

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Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. Set aside a regular budget.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. The hardest thing I had to learn in my career is that I am not always right.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

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How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

An experimental design for rethinking the traditional career by building retirement into work and work into retirement. 4 Tactics to Change from Directive Leadership to a Self-Correcting Organization. The stories and hacks are as richly varied. What happens when you abolish traditional budgets and planning calendars.

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Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. No single individual can possibly have all of the answers.

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). How does this lead to disruption?

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 8, 2015

Your brightest ambitions, breakthrough ideas, compelling goals, disruptive innovations, fulfilling relationships, elevating possibilities--even your best-laid, most ingenious plans--utterly depend on GRIT. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide . GRIT Ignites. GRIT Undergirds. Getting Organized.

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Leadership Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning Skills 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. For the record, I am staunchly independent.

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