Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano (PublicAffairs, 2019) The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. There's a better way. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. “We argue that CEOs’ social class can only be understood when considering both family background and the current resources (income and education) at their disposal.”

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. The good news is that CEOs without vision will take care of themselves in short order, as they simply won’t survive for long. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Not only is true influence not difficult to acquire, but it is also sustainable when you understand the proper constructs. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They play an especially vital role in the construction and agriculture sectors of the U.S. “These residents are fully engaged in economic activities that produce wealth and contribute to the well-being of American society. economy, as well as the entertainment, arts, recreation, accommodation and food service industries,” the researchers say.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

When it comes to the construction of messaging, I have found that people will tend to fall into one of the four following groups. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

If only we could learn the art of dealing with conflict in a collaborative and constructive way, I am sure that organisations would be transformed. As always, I’m interested in your thoughts, experiences and comments… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dr Sarah Morris Oh! Love your articel and the suggestions within it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. So hear's the big learning: never assume we're meaning the same thing when we use similar words, or risk constructing a Tower of Babel! I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. In Greece, acquiring construction permits, registering property, and enforcing contracts in courts require vast amounts of paperwork and time. But Greece cannot stop there.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. In the P3 model, private financing fills holes in public budgets, and profit-oriented engineers and builders find efficiencies while government officials ensure that the public is well served.

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Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

Instead you must see a so-called negative tag as a chance to reassess and make room for innovation. Establish clear kill points for constructive endings. No financing. So you don’t just take a word like ‘losing’ and mask it with the hyperbole of ‘winning’. Study, discuss, even come to embrace failure. Out competed. Bad location.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. What does the availability of re-usable infrastructure do for digital innovators?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Believing that improving housing for the world’s most poor could help them break out of the vicious cycle of poverty, we issued a challenge to the design community to employ the strategies of innovation and disruptive thinking to attack this persistent problem. Collaboration Global business Innovation' Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. No number of add-ons would be able to match the flexibility of need-based construction." Triple the U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. He is active in a number of outside finance groups and similarly devotes time at their conferences to seek out and get to know finance talent outside the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Even worse, the narrative fallacy means that people are likely to construct stories about the past that might not have been precisely true, making future predictions even more dubious.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” They’re all about “the big idea” and partnerships that last, and they understand that “this business of innovation is something that takes a long time” — it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Missionaries, on the other hand, are “strategic.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Even if this should happen, however, many economists have argued for years that before much construction of additional roads in particular is undertaken, existing roads, which are less than full during off-peak hours, could be more rationally used, reducing somewhat the need for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in new roads.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Even worse, the narrative fallacy means that people are likely to construct stories about the past that might not have been precisely true, making future predictions even more dubious.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

As such, we blame them for slowing things down, lowering morale, and choking off innovation. But at that point, a vice president of finance (who had not been in the meetings) expressed some concerns and sent the team back to the drawing board.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. There is huge potential to speed up permits and land acquisition particularly for new transport infrastructure, to structure contracts to encourage innovation and cost savings, and to strengthen collaboration with contractors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. When someone on an account team improves dramatically after being constructively coached by a fellow team member. You've likely seen reverse leadership in action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. with the construction of flood walls around Hoboken, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia. Where Would You Rather Live?

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