Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2013

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Diversity Kaplan Self-aware Long-term 55

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. Rural innovation. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Robert Kaplan. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again. By Nicholas Dunbar.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 23, 2011

Can you force innovation? Measuring performance of the MD through hard, soft, personal and strategic measurements and bring all these measurements together in a coherent manner. Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness To what extent does your organisation value Authentic Leadership? Revised Checklist to help you.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 23, 2011

Can you force innovation? Measuring performance of the MD through hard, soft, personal and strategic measurements and bring all these measurements together in a coherent manner. Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness To what extent does your organisation value Authentic Leadership? Revised Checklist to help you.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

As a result, a wonderful friendship has developed (which is easy to do at BIF). Sitting behind me at BIF-6 was this nice, unassuming guy. We struck up a conversation. This guy was Michael Lee Stallard. As Michael and I started conversing, the importance of connections to help reframe, reform our world was/is a constant theme.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2018

After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. For example, researchers Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili found that recombining ideas from one domain of specialization, as opposed to multiple domains, led to more novel innovations in the area of nanotubes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? This surprise led to a big shift for OpenTable: In addition to restaurant reservations, the company developed a “guest management” platform to also capture and provide detailed data on the restaurants’ diners themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

For the past decade, leaders have been encouraged to focus on developing their strengths rather than always gravitating to working on a weakness. It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

For the past decade, leaders have been encouraged to focus on developing their strengths rather than always gravitating to working on a weakness. It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. The project team developed TDABC process maps at the three locations. Test process-improvement suggestions.

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