The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market.

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Agility Quinn Mintzberg Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. Upon arriving, she flatly refused the CEO’s offer of the CHRO role. I push leaders. I drive them to higher performance.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. And that answer was new management — Robert Wood — “a man who was capable of introducing a new entrepreneurial concept.” And what was that? Rucci , Steven P.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

More generally, we find greater proportions of respondents in emerging markets falling into the leadership camp we would call “modernist.” Will we see a steady convergence in leadership – and toward the Western style – as developing economies mature? The pressure is on to make boardrooms and management ranks less “male and pale.”.

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