Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

Many of the sales leaders I’m talking with this summer are working on how to help their teams raise their games in the virtual world we’re living in. I’ve been collecting some best practice ideas that can help you and your team reclaim competitive advantage in a virtual world. Back in June (remember that distant time two months ago?),

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. So let’s say you’ve won over a CEO and the executive team.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”. That’s quite hard for people who have really only had one quiver [sic] in their leadership bow, which is command and control.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

Anything less from its leadership, and a business misses opportunities and risks losing ground in the marketplace. There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. I get comments from my team about my fearlessness using technology that I’m not familiar with.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 25, 2023

Case Study: How effective communication led to Tyler Grange’s four-day week triumph Written by Mark Rowland Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email The leadership team at consultancy Tyler Grange were trying to determine the best way to work when they decided to join the four-day week trial.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

I have watched the profession go through lots of very savvy efforts to pigeonhole employees into categories or styles or features in order to make leadership more prescriptive. What do I do with the redneck under my leadership who likes Mozart more than George Jones? Leadership is not about the pursuit of assumption.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Littman & Camp : We wanted to give the entrepreneurial community a new roadmap for personal and team growth. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. Self-awareness is also paramount.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Littman & Camp : We wanted to give the entrepreneurial community a new roadmap for personal and team growth. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. Self-awareness is also paramount.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Littman & Camp : We wanted to give the entrepreneurial community a new roadmap for personal and team growth. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes. Self-awareness is also paramount.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. False Starts. False Promises.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. Thank you for your questions. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

You can target early adopters. Starting small, such as a BPM project for a particular business unit, will mean that it is easier define the scope and stick to it, and makes for more consistent leadership--all of which are common challenges facing any IT project including BPM. Complexity is much more manageable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, this startup cultural utopia invariably hits a rough patch for about 70% of startups in years three to four, regardless of how happy the team was before. As a result, the sales leadership devised a proactive plan to reverse this dangerous trend. We call this the “cultural chasm.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. The challenge is to make the city´s habitants work as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

A team of 20-plus experts traveled the world, posting blogs and speaking at digital-marketing forums. Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. Adobe then went on a content-marketing spree. Retailers were all ears.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Engage your customer-facing teams in working sessions to pull apart defect-ridden customer experiences. Organized learning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. Right now, the biggest companies in the world are scooping up these experts to populate their teams because they understand that the key to building a robust, successful AI practice is to find and retain the right talent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If it were a Toyota vehicle-manufacturing plant, a key enabler would be a rope strung along each production line above team members, the Andon Cord. The cord can be pulled by anyone encountering a quality problem or needing assistance from the team leader.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business. In the last two decades, 3M has slashed toxic releases by 99% and greenhouse gas emissions by 72%. It's the only company that has won the EPA's Energy Star Award every year the honor has been bestowed.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Build a team dedicated to change. Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. Refreeze (reinforcement).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, BMW’s greatest co-innovation success, 12 years earlier, had been in a “venture client” relationship with an early stage startup: Mobileye, now a leader in collision-avoidance technology. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

When a banker was told by his boss that he needed to show more "we" and less "me" behaviors, team members observed and called out missteps, such as inappropriate "I" statements. Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. The peer pressure worked.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. Keep your values “discovery team” small, and ideally comprised of only your founder(s) and perhaps certain long-tenured senior managers. At ExactHire, our team focused on short phrases.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

Launch with a cross-functional team. According to a feature in the latest Harvard Business Review , 75 percent of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional. That stat caught our eye because at the heart of every successful startup launch is the launch team—which by its very nature is cross-functional.

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