Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” – Roger Allen A favorite pastime of those in the older generations is to lament the decline among the younger generations. In the eyes of their managers, peers, and direct reports, the Gen Y group is highly focused on obtaining results for the organization. The following is a guest post by Jack Zenger. In case you?re

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. it wasn’t fun.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Dee Hock’s quote nicely defines the product management perspective. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 16, 2009 at 5:59 am said: “50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. — are the most valuable asset you own.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. We want to come out strong.” Understand what creates value. Get strategic.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” Cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Too many leaders try to demand creativity on the spot: They offer cash rewards for new ideas, sequester teams in endless brainstorming sessions, and encourage competitive hierarchies that reward some people for out-innovating others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry. Change management Getting buy-in Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Embrace employee autonomy. They have to have autonomy.”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I talk with leaders of process improvement activities about the role of HR in change, however, I generally hear that HR is bureaucratic and a brake on innovation. In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. We don't typically challenge managers to look more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

I’d rather spend 45 minutes working through a video conference with a CEO or GM than have a two-hour traditional conference call. Roger Schwarz. The openness and focused attention among team members fostered by videoconferencing enables innovation and creative solutions to emerge. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Just ask Hewlett-Packard's CEO Meg Whitman, who has already declared that she couldn't accomplish much in a year and needs more time. You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them," Kenny Rogers sang in a famous song about playing poker. Persistence doesn't mean being pig-headed.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

” Call it cost management fatigue. The best-run companies, in contrast, think of cost management as a way to support their strategy, and of cost as precious investment that will fuel their growth. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. Blog Post ).

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