Lead Change Blog
MAY 18, 2018
It was the day of the Great Fishing Contest. I was about seven years old. We lived in a small town with a creek that ran right through the center of the town square. Every year, the town held a fishing contest. There were prizes for the most fish, and the biggest fish, and the smallest fish, and all sorts of other things. There were prizes for different age groups, so I had a chance.
Leading Blog
MAY 18, 2018
I F YOU ARE THINKING of starting a business—and apparently nine million Americans are currently thinking about it and only about 500,000 actually do each year—you will want to read Burn the Business Plan by Carl Schramm. The highly-romanticized, high-tech startups that we read about and want to emulate are less than seven percent of all start-ups and they experience the highest failure rate of all business startups.
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Leadership Freak
MAY 18, 2018
You waited too long to delegate if you’re going under for the third time. Delegation isn’t a life preserver for overworked leaders. Desperation is a lousy context for delegation. Practice proactive delegation: #1.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 18, 2018
Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. Six Leadership Traps To Avoid Disaster By Terri Klass ( @ TerriKlass ) “In leadership we can sometimes fall prey to traps we don’t see in front of us. Some of these traps may be deliberately set but most are just part of our daily routines. Knowing what traps can trip up a leader and anticipating where they will be set can empower leaders to work around them…” See more.
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Leadership Freak
MAY 18, 2018
I love books, the old fashioned kind made from trees. I love how they feel and smell. Old books smell like wisdom. I love how books look on my shelves.
Six Disciplines
MAY 18, 2018
The fundamental question your leaders need to ask while building a purpose-driven organization is "What needs to change and how quickly?".
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Eric Jacobson
MAY 18, 2018
Alan Adamson , co-author of the new book, Shift Ahead , says that “the ability for companies and organizations to stay relevant is being significantly challenged by the accelerating pace of change – and new ways of doing things – that are emerging with every passing day.” At a speed of change unlike every before. That’s why this book, sub-titled, How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World , is a both a timely and pertinent read.
Strategy Driven
MAY 18, 2018
When you own a small business, you’d expect that over time it’ll start to grow. As it grows there’ll be more tasks to deal with and not enough resources for it. Help will be needed to manage your build up of tasks, in which case it might be worth considering hiring your first employee. It could be seen as a big step as you’ll now have to teach someone else how you run your business and you’ll be letting someone into something that’s really special to you.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images. At best, mergers and acquisitions (M&A’s) have a 50/50 chance of reaching their intended results. Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Why is the failure rate so high? Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just th
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 18, 2018
If you ask a leader what his biggest struggle with is in leadership, you will often hear a single answer. Leadership is lonely. I have no one to go to with my leadership struggles. It’s a fact of life that leadership can be lonely. Leaders can have a hard time finding a true friend whom they can confide and believe in. Especially because most of the leader’s time is spent with others within the organization.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
rawpixel/unsplash. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. So, go forth and build something with it.” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement. Right now, commencement speeches are being given, quoted, lauded and judged.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
Audi Santoso / EyeEm/Getty Images. It pays to plan. Entrepreneurs who write business plans are more likely to succeed, according to our research, described in an earlier piece for Harvard Business Review. But while this might tempt some entrepreneurs to make writing a plan their very first task, our subsequent study shows that writing a plan first is a really bad idea.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
Traditionally, companies that have acquired others or merged have done so to drive synergies, acquiring targets similar to their own organization. But digital deals—fast gaining M&A share—are different. In a digital deal, the acquiring company pursues technologies or capabilities it does not possess. The rise in digital deals indicates many large organizations are realizing organic growth will not give them the rapid rise in digital capabilities they desire.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. These companies are facing wholesale change—from defining how technology reinvents entire functions to how the organization manages new workforce models to how to unlock value with cross-industry ecosystems.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
Ron Berg/Getty Images. At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. Our tool, Metis, analyzes data from online reviews and social media to uncover problems and opportunities. But, as the Dorchester Collection’s director of global guest experience and innovation, I’ve discovered that often the data can only tell you where there’s a problem, not why it exists, or how to fix it.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
PeopleImages/Getty Images. MoviePass, an upstart movie theater subscription service, has been a controversial topic lately. One Wall Street analyst called MoviePass a joke that would be out of business in 18 months. It lost nearly $100 million in its most recent quarter, its parent company’s stock has plummeted, and its auditor recently voiced skepticism over its ability to stay in business.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2018
B2B companies are struggling with a loss of control over the customer experience (CX) today. As they grow their indirect channels, this issue will only get worse. With their future growth prospects at stake, B2B executives must determine how to improve CX—while ceding more of the experience to their partners. The answer lies in adopting an ecosystem mindset, providing key partners the tools they need to grow their businesses, and orchestrating a trusting environment that encourages the rig
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