Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

The Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and Internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. Every individual in the developed world is a free agent, even though we acknowledge that many people around the world are not free.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

We were in a unique position to integrate ideas and teams across the company, and to draw insights from the outside world. GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. Now, after more than a decade of experimentation, I can share the formula we’ve developed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.” ” 2.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

When they don’t have the time or space to incubate novel and clever ideas, they may miss out on opportunities to reframe a problem and see new possibilities for potential solutions. How do you help your team develop their creativity? What else can companies do to develop mindful teams and cultures? Thinking Creatively.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

We were in a unique position to integrate ideas and teams across the company, and to draw insights from the outside world. GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. Now, after more than a decade of experimentation, I can share the formula we’ve developed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The early stages present numerous opportunities for disagreement, whether it’s around funding or product development, and when stress and tiredness are added to the mix, it can be incredibly combustible. Selecting the team. The founding team of a startup obviously has various differences to teams formed in other work contexts.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Unfortunately, current options for warming babies in developing nations are either expensive or unsafe. For us, innovation is a dynamic process that never ends.''.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. One of these, startup accelerators, has received a great deal of attention but also little scrutiny. In fact, of the nearly 700 U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They want to make sure they’ll learn on and off the job, have access to local cultural opportunities, and develop a robust professional network.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. Gaining support for an idea for which people have no point of reference is a huge challenge for innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process.").

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Finally, assess the level of time you're willing to put into developing this person.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The truth is that once you find yourself in a position where you need to adapt, it’s usually too late. ” Other attempts to adapt to Apple’s innovations, such as the Zune mp3 player, didn’t gain traction either. To understand how, take a look at the innovation ecosystem that it’s built.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the world of business, few entrepreneurs can realistically expect to emulate the colossi of innovation, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson, or the companies they created. Genetic studies suggest that genes determine only 10% of the variability in creative potential, so there is a lot of room for development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Shift the focus to include small companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

So how, as a society, do we develop new instincts towards criminals and what strategies can be effectively employed to reduce the rate of incarceration and the rate of recidivism? Many gangsters are natural born innovators with restricted economic opportunities. I suddenly realized I was meeting entrepreneurs in prison.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” It’s working.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

Senate, recognized by the White House, headhunted by the Governor, and appointed to a big position in California. It’s all about team collaboration and how Edison taught people collaboration and innovation. How did the people do innovation using some of his techniques. So I’m incubating this idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Companies are seeking to be quicker on their feet and more innovative. Consider today’s trends in M&A.

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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). We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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