Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Chris summarizes: “Great bosses inspire growth, ensure accountability, spur teamwork and more. Learn from leaders in marketing, HR technology, structural engineering, corporate catering, innovation consulting, entrepreneurial education, benefits administration, and construction.”

Leadership Development 170

Leadership Development Development Leadership Advice 170

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

Open-book 260

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. Recurring themes include pioneer spirit, business innovation, community give-back, growth and vision. Today, I see Houston as a collection of communities, economic engines and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements. Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. The ideal strategy is to maximize customer lifetime value.”

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Software Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Amazon’s approach of continuous product changes opens new possibilities for sensing and responding to the market. In traditional product management, smart people (marketing, engineering, strategy, product managers, R&D) come up with new products and lob them over the wall to operations to put into production.

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. But agile innovation teams work better than current approaches, and agile principles hold that making immediate progress beats waiting for perfect solutions before starting out. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. Many managers have been fearful of using social media beyond marketing purposes. — can play a huge role in doing so. Not so with collaboration.

Team 9

Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 9

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Productivity apps are in heaps and bounds on the market, but very few cater to the ever-evolving needs of the human resources departments. People, Business, Human resource management, Recruitment, Teamwork, strategy and leadership Concepts. It’s no surprise that a couple of clicks on the app store could make your life easier.

Productivity 101

Productivity Products Management Conference 101

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

The difficult angle for the Dana-Farber — the challenge shared by many companies — is that collaboration doesn’t come naturally to many of the highest performers and the system seems almost geared against teamwork. The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions. Convince with quantitative evidence.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. Finding heroes. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

Education 52

Education Software Skills Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results. Their insights and experience suggest five marketing capabilities that in their most refined form border on superpowers. Extraordinary marketers are amazing listeners. To hear what no one else can hear.

Marketing 13

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 13

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). the number of jobs increases.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

At least, that’s how the story is often told today, and that telling meshes with how people see innovation: a single, simple observation, a flash of brilliance, and — eureka! Put simply, Fleming didn’t have the requisite skills to engineer his discovery into a practical solution to the problem of disease.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Visualizations support and enhance teams and teamwork. More recently, the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) visualizations had a huge impact on an innovation workshop because they facilitated a cross-functional design conversation that the organization's existing visualization portfolio could not.

Information 8

Information Performance Review Teamwork Workshop 8