CEO Insider

JULY 8, 2021

The senior management is likely to be headed by a CEO or in decision […]. Traditionally speaking, a family-owned business is defined as one with two or more family members involved in the ownership and control, participating in building the world economy. The post How do leaders build an everlasting family business?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

This is a tricky juncture, when you transition from scrappy, creation mode into organizational development mode. The development of an organization that’s in the fast-growth stage slams you with many new challenges, some of which are extremely difficult for many founders. Tell me if this sounds familiar. - Look for a buyer.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Danny Meyer, famed New York restaurateur, told OpenTable’s CEO, “Look, I don’t need more business.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. Don’t focus on restricting someone’s development, Focus on unlocking their passion and their potential.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Non-profit CEOs. Corporate CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Is 23andMe potentially disruptive to pharmaceutical companies? ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

When O’Neill took the helm of the struggling aluminum manufacturer, he didn’t change the business model or even engage in the typical cost-cutting that CEOs tasked with raising the stock price tend to focus on. Consider Paul O’Neill’s transformation of Alcoa through the 1990s. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

When O’Neill took the helm of the struggling aluminum manufacturer, he didn’t change the business model or even engage in the typical cost-cutting that CEOs tasked with raising the stock price tend to focus on. Consider Paul O’Neill’s transformation of Alcoa through the 1990s. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Fisher presents a very simple and logical framework for choosing the right supplier – link innovative products with what he calls a “responsive” supply chain, and functional products with “efficient” supply chain. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2023

If developed the right way, technology will augment–not replace–human labor.

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CEO Insider

JULY 31, 2021

On March 23, 2020, the S&P 500 bottomed out. It dropped 34% from the mid-February 2020 high to the bottom. In fact, such a drop has never been seen before in that intensity. While the S&P 500 dropped 50% in 2008 at the start of the Great Recession, this drop was more intense. The distance […].

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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. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Brian McAndrews, Pandora’s new CEO, faces two challenges as he steps to the helm: reducing royalties from the 50-60% of sales currently paid, and increasing revenues per listener hour. Develop a simple audio ad production product. Develop an audio ad marketplace. Develop a promotional platform for music venues and artists.

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CEO Advertising Disruptive Innovation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

When we recently put these questions to a CEO, he said he guessed his organization was currently allocating 5% of their spending to innovation (new products and services), but added that they really should be investing 10-15%. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. Consider that Apple sold 74.4

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2020

CEO Astro Teller reveals how Alphabet Inc.’s ’s X develops breakthrough technologies that change the world.

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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. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Whether it is a family-owned business, private-sector organization, publicly-traded company, non-profit entity, global business, military or government agency, the long-standing dilemma among leaders has and will always be – How do you motivate others?

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Motivation Magazine Globalization Organization 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

There are some classics out there, such as Peter Drucker’s (“If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?”), Ted Levitt’s timeless contribution (“What business are we really in?”), and the question Andy Grove asked to transform Intel (“If the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?”).

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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. "Cool" is a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Equally important, firms’ efforts to develop their core capabilities change focus to emphasize growing partnerships, not always build internal capabilities—so that understanding how others in the ecosystem make money becomes important to long-term success. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In these fields in the innovation economy, traditional credentials are not only unnecessary but sometimes even a liability. Career planning Disruptive innovation Education' User profiles contain work samples and provide community generated indicators of status and skill. Their conclusion: Credentials are so 20 th century.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2020

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explores the ethical and research challenges in creating artificial general intelligence.

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Altman Ethics CEO Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. The latter just signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to develop new mobile solutions, after the new CEO acknowledged that the phone maker has been left behind by its competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Lafley was, my jaw still dropped reading the retired CEO's description of one of his favorite "gifts.". Presumably, P&G and Clorox both believe they're behaving ethically on behalf of their customers and shareholders when they "defend leading franchises" by deliberately disrupting new product development by rivals. I don't know.

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. He plans to make significant R&D investments, hire lots of sales people to approach enterprise customers, expand in emerging markets and develop entirely new product categories.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. China Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The former CEO believes that delivering profits is the main measure of a company, and he’s justly proud of the $250 billion of profits Microsoft generated during his tenure over 14 years. As CEO Jeff Bezos has said , “Your margin is my opportunity.” There are some interesting recent developments.

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