Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I''ve found this advice from authors Neil Smith and Patricia O''Connnell ( How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things ) to be particularly helpful when it comes to corporate culture and changing behavior : Corporate culture is an interlocking series of expectations, rituals, and habits maintained by peer influence and rewarding adherence.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

In fact, managers might even be a bit worse. In an experiment by Jennifer Mueller, managers were more likely to reject the very same ideas that got customers excited. Everett Rodgers, a sociology professor at Ohio State University published the now famous Diffusion of Innovation in 1962 and coined the term “early adopter.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. We tend to overestimate the power of influence. So if you want to create real change, it is not power and influence that you need, but those who seek to overthrow them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. Each firm had a different training philosophy and each manager onstage offered their unvarnished view of what worked and what failed. Or is the purpose of their presence to influence the roadmap's cartography and inform strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. Are their particular game situations where their positive—or negative—influence is statistically pronounced?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

They hire 20-somethings to manage the corporate Twitter account, and they are in the process of spending untold dollars on social media monitoring systems. Yet I've never once heard the question: Is this social network actually the one where our prospects and customers are influenced to buy?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). The sweet spot can be reached if there is a balance among the four project-manager types: executors, experts, gamblers, and prophets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In additional research , we found that the influence of recommendation algorithms on choices is greater for hedonic products – characterized by pleasure-oriented consumption (e.g., Yet, there are important ways in which product recommendations, investment management and driverless cars are different.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

How do you multiply your influence? DAVID: And the book in that aim is the latest culmination of that goal, Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success. It’s the same thing you can use, this ripples of influence thing, to become a thought leader. This is second chapter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

What do they actually do that influences and inspires? How talent management is changing. A senior project manager cited the highly public immediate dismissal of a direct report who had fudged a quality control audit and then lied about it. How do their leadership examples impact and influence our own? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Diffusion theory holds, however, that this is not a random process: Key influencers make it tip. Managers are so obsessed with what new things to add that they forget the obvious: Subtracting. Use them all.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

According to a study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting, the vast majority of managers believe that “achieving digital transformation is critical” to their organizations. ” Here are some ideas for encouraging the adoption of a new technology. Get influencers onboard.

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Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The raw data were just numbers, although they helped reveal interesting information — that none of my life activities (commuting, tea drinking, work) influence my blood pressure. This group saw that new mobile apps for patients (which measure and manage health outcomes) could yield clinical and financial benefits.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

Getting their input offline is both good business and good politics; but when we see board members “dropping in” to the startup’s offices frequently prior to launch, it’s usually a red flag, a signal that the CEO is not strong enough to manage his board. But, it’s better to get feedback from early customers, not board members.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Those early adopters of technology – let’s call them entrepreneurs, or maybe even founders – helped drive overall economic vitality. The authors hypothesize that these early adopters used their newly acquired knowledge to build technologically based businesses that drove regional prosperity.

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