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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

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

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Carol Kauffman – Founder/Executive Institute of Coaching Harvard, chief supervisor Meyler Campbell Business Coaching Program.

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Lafley's Ambiguous "Gift" of Innovation Failure

Harvard Business Review

Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. What vital lesson did Lafley take away from this new product debacle? "We I don't know.

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Innovation snobbery is a market signal. Do you believe silicon chips are superior to potato chips? Pay attention.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

The sooner we get law-abiding robots on the road, the report concludes, the sooner many of those lives — along with billions of gallons of wasted fuel and an equal number of hours of productivity lost in traffic — can be saved. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

It’s not just products. From Edison to Jobs, we’ve tended to associate innovation with products, and nowhere is that more true than in pharma, where new products are key to success. With the right interactions, large companies can add customer value and augment products with recurring revenue businesses.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. That's no dig on James.

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