Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Bob provides an overview of inventory (they use Just in Time inventory methods to create efficient processes and systems) and typical financial metrics to examine how their business has done using Deming’s ideas (along with theory of constraints ). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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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). Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR.

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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. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2017

With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. The tactics being used by CSAA IG are all ones that leaders in other companies can apply to their own innovation culture change efforts. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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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. Today, GE is emerging as a leader solution provider in the “Internet of Things.”

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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

Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Your work is specific and actionable.

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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). It’s one way to survive in a system that doesn’t make sense.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. It takes strong top-down leadership — a combination of persuasion, incentives, mandates, and examples — to make this kind of change happen. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. It takes strong top-down leadership — a combination of persuasion, incentives, mandates, and examples — to make this kind of change happen. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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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. Most of the recommended remedies—idea wikis, business incubators, online collaboration, design thinking, “authentic” leadership, et al —are no more than minor tweaks. See the rest of the series here.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Convergence is not simply about combining ideas and technology; it is a primary leadership competency that allows organizations to design the right future. Everything, everyone, and every system evolves over time. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. Their primary goal is employment and job creation, not disruptive innovation that may be risky but could create shareholder value. China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving.

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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, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. By taking this approach, Amazon can improve its processes swiftly and the company’s senior leadership stays in touch with what’s happening on the front line.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

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. It's worth considering whether your organizational systems allow different perspectives and voices to be heard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. But it takes too long for new work skills to become codified and for the education system to deliver them. Providing access to such goods is often a consequence of competitive business activity and disruptive innovation, which starts with someone creating a simpler, more affordable version of a product.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Whatever has been stable, I will disrupt that stability. The company needs to continue to innovate and grow. I believe we can create a system and culture to perpetuate this culture of entrepreneurial and start-up spirit. China Disruptive innovation Global business' Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Instead, it's environmental — and much of the blame rests at the feet of the country's political leadership. They're falling into the trap that leads to disruption — the same one that snares executives in many successful companies. where you create your IP and then rely on the legal system to keep your competitors at bay.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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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

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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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. Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, the Global Health Innovation Fund combined Preventice, developer of the PatientCare Platform and the BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring Sensor, with eCardio Diagnostics, a provider of remote cardiac monitoring products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Specifically, she proposed a system that tracked the real-time inventory needs and usage of business units worldwide, located unused inventory in each unit, and arranged delivery of that inventory to where it was needed. She found that in the firm’s Director of Corporate Logistics and Information Systems, whom I’ll call Pramesh.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. To quote the article, “If organizations are ‘systems for getting work done,’ processes provide a fine-grained description of the means.” Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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