Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2013

For leaders, language is a vehicle for making decisions, resolving disputes, enacting practices, measuring results, and sharing innovation and creativity. In leadership language: “I know that this restructuring has been hard for you. Like any other language, the language of leadership has to be learned, honed, and practiced.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The post How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation appeared first on Center for Creative Leadership.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. The HR Digest: How are you going to shake things up next?

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But it’s essential to differentiate the use of coaching for development from coaching for change. What’s the difference between coaching for change versus coaching for development? The Difference Between Coaching for Development and Coaching for Change. Coaching for Change Has a Different Objective. Strategic intent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. Provide flexible learning options.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think big.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Create New Positions for the Creatives. We ideated constantly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about. The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. We next visited 18 countries, interviewing over 100 innovative women and men in medicine, politics, education, start-ups, NGOs and other sectors of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

This is particularly useful when you need to make sense of a challenging situation, tackle a complex problem, or come up with new solutions or innovations. These examples illustrate how a “don’t know” mind-set can trigger innovation without historical baggage or existing path dependencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

workers and unemployed citizens tells the story: The majority of workers surveyed (55%) report that they are under pressure to develop additional skills to succeed in their current and future jobs. American companies need to get creative about addressing the skills challenge. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S. Go digital with training.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

To be clear about a few things up front: This is not a call for organizational restructuring, nor is it the adding of another layer of management or the establishment of a new committee per se. Such viewpoints could, in turn, generate more fresh, innovative thinking — and from that, new corporate vistas might easily emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Many work hard to develop charismatic skills. Especially when an organization is asked to become more innovative and to perform beyond normal levels, having followers with an unusually strong belief in the leader and their vision increases the odds of success. Creativity and productivity decline.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Creativity and ingenuity have always been precious. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

IT departments need to move into leading roles in innovation. Think Teams : In launching transformation efforts, the leading companies bring together cross-functional teams, including employees with deep industry knowledge, analytics skills, creative skills, policy knowledge, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. His distributed-management approach drew inspiration from an earlier model, sociocracy. And what if Hsieh’s successor someday turns away from holacratic principles?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

These new ecosystems with their hundreds of species from flesh-eating sharks to sulphur-metabolizing worms also include "innovative startups" — previously undiscovered new sea animals that have naturally selected to flourish in the unique ecosystem. The reality is, they almost always adapt and grow in creative and novel ways.

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