Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. An executive remembers a single failed venture, neglecting multiple successes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership is not an easy task, and even the best leaders are susceptible to errors in thinking that can hinder decision-making and, ultimately, organizational success. This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. An executive remembers a single failed venture, neglecting multiple successes.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Apple is a formidable player in the tablet market with almost 30 million iPads sold to-date. Similar tablets from Samsung, RIM, HP and others have struggled to make any dent in the iPad market. Kindle was already popular with customers in spite of huge success of iPad. And now comes Amazon's Fire. Will it succeed? I think so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Set your company up for success. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

If we’re to be honest with ourselves, as opposed to defending a particular position to suit our needs, we’ve all known born leaders…They are those affable individuals that posses charisma and presence combined with the ability to make good decisions that people have flocked to since an early age. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. Never confuse charisma with leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

If I were successful in my genetic engineering exercise I would no doubt have created a leader who would be driven crazy by emotional and intellectual conflicts. It contains what I believe to be the necessary qualities a leader must possess to be successful. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. Instead, we look at eight broad rules for success, half of which are about the entrepreneur herself (not her business plan). Importance.

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