The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. We often discuss how very smart leaders with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Supporting innovation. Holding women back.

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Ries Software Emotional Intelligence Ethics 91

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Beth Galetti: Amazon is where smart, passionate people come to obsess about customers and innovate on their behalf. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace.

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

What’s more, if we can shift our mindset in such a way, it could unlock a wave of innovation and productivity improvements that benefit us all. Expanding the vision For much of the development of AI, the vision has been to replicate human intelligence. While this is an enticing vision, it’s also a limiting one.

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Comparison Technology Hotels Incentives 103

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

In 2000, Shigetaka Komori, author of Innovating Out of Crisis , became president of Fujifilm and said, "The whole of Fujifilm was depending on my managerial skills to make it happen. Maybe I was brought into this world to overcome this crisis,' I thought at the time. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. .

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2021

COVID-19 has raised serious questions for businesses, primarily how can they respond to the crisis and what changes will it cause going forward for consumers? With more of us at home than ever before, businesses need to develop new strategic perspectives and reshape the customer experience. Consider the customer experience.

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Audience How To Marketing Brand 75

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2020

As with so much at the moment, the pandemic is extenuating many of the trends seen before the crisis, and a paper from Harvard Business School at the start of 2020 made the case for easier migration policies to help rejuvenate an economy that many thought was sliding towards a recession. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While such a crisis is likely to be short-lived, the push towards decarbonizing the economy and the creation of green jobs is likely to be continuing apace. Many nations across the developed world are striving to ensure the fruits of economic growth are spread more equitably across society. The green economy. Sharing the wealth.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

Unfortunately, while leaders may state that they want to engender a more collaborative environment in their organization, they don’t realize how often own actions are actually serving to stifle collaboration, promote the growth of silos, and ultimately hindering their organization’s ability to innovate or incur any real forward momentum.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

It’s also not just about hiring more good engineers.”. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. “But they are not set up to take risks, to be innovative, and try new things out,” Altman adds. It may be a tough message.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models. I Think Not.

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. That’s about it.

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 318

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. You may recall the commercial " Is it live, or is it Memorex? featuring Ella Fitzgerald.

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Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

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. But when the business landscape radically changes, culture must change, too. The results were telling.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 295

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Attracting former service members is only half the battle. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

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? and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I Think Not.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 312

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Business development. Instill discipline.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation. Second, demystify the process.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. Instead of development, we got regression, apparently.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. I am grateful for the people who served in that crisis. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. I Think Not.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 352

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. Furthermore, the amount of work they were winning dropped off significantly during and after the global financial crisis. And yet the potential rewards are also significant.

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Innovation Strategy Execution Idea Generation 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I’m not an MBA.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. baranozdemir/Getty Images.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For the United States and Germany, strong multinational corporations and technological innovation are the driving factors. innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Unlike design thinking, an iterative process for developing alternative ideas and strategies based on understanding a “user” and a specific problem, social design addresses the needs of whole communities or societies. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation.

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Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

And they need process owners (who may variously be called VP of Customer Experience, SVP of Supply Chain, Chief Engineer, or Value Stream Leader, for instance) to lead these initiatives. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. They can do it in the following ways.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15