Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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IPO COO Dunning Delegation 120

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I Think Not.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. Examples: A CEO assumes that their enthusiasm for a new corporate strategy is shared by all employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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