Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2015

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR. Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation by Hubert Gatignon via @INSEADKnowledge. From @JohnBaldoni 5 Ways Jim Harbaugh Inspires His Team. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. by @JesseLynStoner.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such. Social mindset plays a huge role in enabling people to perform.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Your sales team was generating twenty or so good leads a week, and now it’s clear that you could generate an order of magnitude more if you just had the people or the right mechanism. The late, great Peter Drucker stated that failure to create a solid team at the top-management level is the core reason startups go off the rails.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Yes, we find the most common mistakes in complex problem solving are weak problem statements, poor problem disaggregation, and insufficient attention to good team norms.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

What is Leadership, Really? Bosses held control over their means for food; and, if employees were “good team players” they got to enjoy the equivalent of being in the pen on the grass. All these pressures have changed the requirements for great leadership. Leadership as a Force. The Way of the Leader in the Wild.

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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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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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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. Even if your leadership has never used “fight” rhetoric before, a question like “what are we fighting for?” As evidence, consider a purpose-driven company that, for a long-time, had a pretty bad mission statement.

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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? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Passion: as important as keeping team members enthusiastic, team leads must be passionate about their mission.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. Even if your leadership has never used “fight” rhetoric before, a question like “what are we fighting for?” As evidence, consider a purpose-driven company that, for a long-time, had a pretty bad mission statement.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Disruptive Innovation. This significant breakthrough in the organization’s operating model and value network facilitates the achievement of growth in a new market, disrupting the entrenched players. 5% on small sustaining innovations. 5% on big, disruptive innovations. 10% on sustaining innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills. It is also unclear whether Cook is capable of attracting innovators. Can Cook do this?

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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. The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team. Leadership's Full Measure. Here's Why.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

The tactics being used by CSAA IG are all ones that leaders in other companies can apply to their own innovation culture change efforts. 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.

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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. Less prosaic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Knowing this, it is important to recognize that radical, disruptive thinking is not something that can be mandated. Here are a few guidelines for bringing out your team’s creative best. To strike a meaningful balance, it is vital that everyone on your team understands the spectrum and uses it in shaping their creative thinking.

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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. They focused on a few enormous projects and did them incredibly well. And they lasted.

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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

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. Because of the vast space between these, the astute manager shouldn’t simply aspire to innovation in general.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jouko Karvinen, the CEO at the time, and his team decided not to depend on consultants, which would have been the typical way to go. Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas. Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.”

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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). Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team. What Is Disruptive Innovation?

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more. A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team." And so on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Too often, marketing puts out a new advertising campaign, a new value proposition, or new messaging for the sales team with the expectation that the sales teams will just start using the new language, almost as if they were changing the content on a web page. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Another, we suggest here, is to put lead users into your top management team and rely on them to force change onto the main organization from inside. It didn't work.

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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. Yes, there''s flakiness and inherent subjectivity in many of the metrics.

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