N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Breakthrough and disruptive innovation requires a different set of skills. Too often I see companies looking for a hybrid manager being able to deliver both innovation and continuity. What could work however, is to make sure the management team is diverse, such that new ventures are included in strategy and visioning.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?,

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LDRLB

JULY 19, 2012

Leading Disruptive Innovation. Description: Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the norm. Many leaders, however, are not formally prepared for the fortitude required to lead through the deep uncertainty that characterizes periods of disruptive change. When: July 26, 2012. Duration: 1 hour.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015, co-founder Strategyzer, Osterwalder Strategy Facilitation, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. (Listed by group – not ranking). Doug Winnie – ActionCOACH #1 small business coach 2016. at Walgreens.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The competitive risks and tradeoffs you should consider before incorporating Gen AI into your organization’s strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A game changer is that ah-ha moment that creates an extreme, disruptive advantage or improvement. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. It’s what I call a “ Game Changer. ” It only makes your current game better.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

These are just a few examples of how creativity and innovation can make a fundamental change, creating a massive ripple effect bringing more ideas and opportunities to life. Still, all of them take belief, courage, dedication, optimism, and leadership with a strong vision, especially in the face of peril.

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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? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2023

Conversations with experts about the imminent tradeoffs facing senior leaders.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

When only seven percent of all employees trust their leaders, can you blame Harvard's Barbara Kellerman for calling the modern practice of leadership development a failure? She pulls few punches in this Strategy+Business excerpt from her book, "The End of Leadership.". There is scant evidence. There is scant evidence.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy. Leadership's Full Measure. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental. creating new digital customer experiences) and “disruptive innovation” (e.g.,

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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. Innovation Strategy execution'

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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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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Share this: This entry was posted in Engagement , Leadership , results , Team building and tagged Max Carbone , strategic planning , Team performance , top team building tips , What Really Works. Thanks again to Max Carbone for sharing his insights with our group. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink. "Cool" is a moving target.

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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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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We all want to win the never-ending race for great, effective, profitable new ideas. We want these ideas without a huge effort, without a huge risk and without a huge investment. We also want ideas with impact, that are rapidly actionable and ideally that utilize mostly existing resources and relationships. Most ideation is done in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

You believe the right kind of leadership can make things better (the two leaders who made it onto this list — Novo Nordisk’s Lars Sørensen, our best-performing CEO of the year, and Pope Francis — are both proving that). The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis. What Is Disruptive Innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.” Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Too many leaders try to demand creativity on the spot: They offer cash rewards for new ideas, sequester teams in endless brainstorming sessions, and encourage competitive hierarchies that reward some people for out-innovating others. Related Video. Brainswarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Far too many supposed innovation experts believe that measuring activities is critical to success. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the measure may be in fact very misleading. Maybe not so much. At least for the big stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. But innovation at scale seems to be within reach of many more companies than might succeed in creating brand new markets. What does it take to innovate at scale? The first element is robust strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

That's one of my favorite guideposts for sustainable business success, and Verizon is my latest poster child for this truth of business strategy (and life). But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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