Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Thomas Kolditz – Founding Director Doerr Institute Rice University, formerly head of Leadership Development West Point.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Stephen R. 6) Synergise.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. It only makes your current game better.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). That past has a strong impact on how new opportunities are viewed (and often how they are ignored).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

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. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. Tell us a little bit about that model and how it kind of corrects the older models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. Well, you know what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. Since 1999, HP has seen 6 CEOs and interim CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. As one who has failed to lead ideas and has failed to spark movements around ideas, it seems the bridge between an idea and an innovative idea is a viral movement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity. You''ve got a problem with that? Well, the data suggest you shouldn''t.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As Dell''s public statements have pronounced, these changes will reduce near-term profitability, raise operating and capital expenditures and involve a lot of risk. As the pace of competition intensifies, it is going to be harder and harder for companies like Dell to keep a leadership position. So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When I conduct workshops with marketing and leadership teams on the design of strategic narratives , I’m often asked, “Should we include the sales teams?” In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI. Here the “Ikea Effect” can be particularly helpful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

All the pieces are in place to create “ disruptive innovation ” and “ cross the chasm ,” but the results are disappointing. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership. What’s missing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. What white-goods producer Haier has chosen to do is to offer every employee (and there are 80,000 of them) the opportunity to effectively become the CEO of a real operating company, provided that their dreams have real merit. China Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 24, 2011

(This post continues the summary of fabulous stories and interactions at the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G on April 21st.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Many organizations were once structured to ensure that each function operated with maximum efficiency. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. The main lesson here is that an innovation probably won't be well served by the organizational structure that supports the existing business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). Ferose stands out among global corporate leaders: he didn't graduate from a prestigious university nor does he have a MBA.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. As new tools become available to build or rebuild human capital more effectively and efficiently, corporations could seek to broaden their mandate in this area, both with their own staff and in the communities where they operate. First, they must secure the prosperity of their own companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. .* Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

The first two are unsurprising: these leaders are significantly more innovative and disruptive, being 56% more inclined to cut through bureaucracy and 29% higher in their willingness to challenge traditional approaches. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As we reflect on disruption across the industry there are key strategic questions, all of which fundamentally consider balance: What is the right balance between humans and technology across the full media and advertising ecosystem? When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. True leadership isn’t about giving orders… Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, speaking at Campbell University Law School.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Now, there are ways to get this experience beyond working for a Silicon Valley startup. Working in a satellite office in an emerging country presents many of these challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Why waste the beautiful sight of it by casting your gaze on a group of misbehaving children who have never accomplished anything remotely close to it in concept or scale and don't have the faintest understanding of how something this remarkable operates and grows in the first place? Disclosure: I am long AAPL.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, interviews with managers of established technology hardware firms showed that their resource-allocation processes favored sustaining innovations (those that had high margins and targeted large, well-known markets and customers) over disruptive innovations (those that had yet to generate hard evidence on their benefits).

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