Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Guest post from Bobby Martin : There comes a time for every founder of a rapidly growing entrepreneurial business when you have to decide if you can be the one to both lead and manage into and through this growth stage. This is a tricky juncture, when you transition from scrappy, creation mode into organizational development mode.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

There will be three more groups – one from Asia/India, one from the US, Europe, and South America, and one group of younger people and people from developing countries who are ready to make a difference in their communities and pay it forward. Everett Alexander – Start up and family business coach, financial advisor and fund manager.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. How did you develop it?

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on restricting someone’s development, Focus on unlocking their passion and their potential. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. It’s not productive – IT DOESNT WORK.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 57

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

Bosses held control over their means for food; and, if employees were “good team players” they got to enjoy the equivalent of being in the pen on the grass. While the great majority of managers today believe employees exit for more money, research shows only 12% leave for compensation concerns. Champion Diversity.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 12

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Passion: as important as keeping team members enthusiastic, team leads must be passionate about their mission.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 117

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Organization Cooper 101

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Most leaders now recognize that the best teams leverage diversity to achieve long-term success. When members of a team, or leaders of an organization, all have the same style, you’ll quickly run into trouble. Observe your team members. Sometimes they also consider organizational attributes, like function or rank.

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Team Diversity Disruptive Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Sustaining Innovation. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations. 5% on big, disruptive innovations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky. The manufacturing company is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

The tactics being used by CSAA IG are all ones that leaders in other companies can apply to their own innovation culture change efforts. Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The team had spent the past two months formulating what it thought was a high-potential disruptive idea. Team members had researched the market thoroughly. The team members smiled, because they were prepared. The meeting was going swimmingly. I just need to see one more thing,” she said. Carol began to look impatient.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore. Ultimately, a team discussion determines what moves forward. Then, the bar goes up.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jouko Karvinen, the CEO at the time, and his team decided not to depend on consultants, which would have been the typical way to go. ” Among a number of initiatives to kindle the transformation, Stora Enso took a novel approach to change management. .” Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.”

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Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. How do they affect day-to-day behaviors?

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. Still, being astute and agile does not guarantee immunity to disruption.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Why is that? What do you still not know?"

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? During our study we learned that a leader's everyday actions are one of the most powerful signals to their team and organization that innovation truly matters. That's what an innovative leader does. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I am a firm believer that companies need society’s permission to grow, and it would appear that Mr. Kalanick and the management team at Uber are coming to this realization as well. ” Mind you, this was well before Wal-Mart management rolled out its kinder, gentler vision (“Save money. Live better.”).

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Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8