Lead Change Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] I am so honored to share the screen on Huffington Post Live with Angela Maiers, Saul Kaplan,Robin Chase, Whitney Johnson and Brian Cuban as we discuss Choose2Matter - helping our kids realize how much they have to offer and give to the world.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

In What You''re Really Meant to Do , Robert Kaplan tells the story of a television producer that got passed over for a promotion. You undermine your "ability to exhibit character and leadership traits" that could help your career, says Kaplan. Personal Development' Initially, he took the easy way out.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 30, 2017

Janice Kaplan cried on New Year’s Eve. She snuggled with her husband and watched a movie before the crystal ball dropped in New York City. She didn’t want her year to end. I… Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 19, 2012

Soren Kaplan in Leapfrogging Kaplan offers a “finding your future [.]. Preparation prevents reaction. Prepare for future failures so you won’t end up caught in the snare of fear. One way to combat our fears is to hit them head-on.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. Always have at least one book going.” — Kent Taylor, Made From Scratch. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Ask those you trust what books have inspired them, and dig in.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

The difference, says Harvard professor Robert Kaplan, is “how they deal with these periods of confusion and uncertainty. Have you developed a clear vision and have you identified three to five clear priorities to achieve that vision? They feel as if they should be somewhere else, doing something else. Managing Your Time.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2013

I asked the “expert on surprise,” Soren Kaplan, “If you could [.]. Extraordinary leaders realize surprise is a catalyst not an enemy. Reject surprises to your own peril. Surprise energizes innovation.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 1, 2012

The more fearful we are the more pessimistic we grow about the future,” Soren Kaplan, author of, Leapfrogging: Harnessing the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. [.]. I’m a huge fan of “just go do something,” but a world filled with options and uncertainty paralyzes. When fear prevents the next step, pessimism prevails.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 15, 2012

Soren Kaplan thought he knew about giant leaps forward until [.]. Leaders rise up during uncertainty and press through ambiguity; they embrace surprises. The surprising truth is surprises represent the path to breakthroughs.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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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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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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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. We are all a work-in-progress.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Kaplan and David P. Norton developed in much greater depth and detail a concept they introduced previously in an HBR article (January/February, 1992): the balanced scorecard. In a book published in 1996, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, Robert S.

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HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. “In

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LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

Processes – How growth strategies and innovation are executed internally and externally including functional and cross-functional processes, customer engagement, information sharing, product and service development, and other activities. Innovation Leadership creativity innovation kaplan organizational culture'

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

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. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. The following is a guest piece by Joel Peterson, Chairman of JetBlue, with David A. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. And hang up the cape. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 1, 2012

The more fearful we are the more pessimistic we grow about the future,” Soren Kaplan, author of, Leapfrogging: Harnessing the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. [.]. I’m a huge fan of “just go do something,” but a world filled with options and uncertainty paralyzes. When fear prevents the next step, pessimism prevails.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders Marti Barletta Kaplan Publishing (2006) The nature and extent of a “prime marketing opportunity&# Those who have already read Marti Barletta’s Marketing to Women will welcome this sequel in which she develops in much greater depth her core concepts with regard (..)

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Develop e-mail ground rules within your organization to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of e-mail communication.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P. To support the organization’s leaders to execute the strategy and bridge the gap, it conducted a program called Leading to Win in Asia Pacific and focused on collaboration and learning the skills of execution.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 26, 2015

A person's conception of leadership matters because it will likely have a strong influence on how he or she processes the writings, leadership coaching , and development practices he or she experiences. You are highly unlikely to become a leader or develop your leadership capabilities all by yourself. Leadership is a team sport.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Driving into the sunrise on this sunny, clear day with a hint of Fall in the air was simply stunning. why is everyone smiling?

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

The best gardeners learn through experience and reflection what flowers need to grow and develop. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Developing Versatile Leaders.” Here's a guest post by Paul Thornton, a Great Leadership regular: To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 4, 2011

Developed at the Harvard Business School by David Norton and Robert Kaplan in the early 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) represents the newest and most prolific performance measurement system since Total Quality Management (TQM) and Management by Objectives (MBO).

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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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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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. We offer: Expert individual communication coaching for professional development or critical public events. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

This framework shares some elements with the balanced scorecard concept that was introduced in a seminal 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance , by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Numerous organizations have subsequently advocated and implemented the balanced scorecard idea.

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