Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. But this proved to be a false conclusion.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

2013 represents a great opportunity to leapfrog our mental models and innovate our way to breakthroughs for ourselves, our teams, our organizations and, of course, our customers. Breakthrough innovation isn’t much different; there are no maps for uncharted territory. What are the breakthroughs that we want to create and lead?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 70

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One study from Catalyst of nearly 900 employees found that empathetic leadership was “an important driver of employee outcomes such as innovation, engagement, and inclusion—especially in times of crisis.” CEOs & Entrepreneurs. There are many benefits when executives lead with empathy. Individual Board Directors.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change. If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple. The Critic …The Critic opposes any and all change.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 397

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They then resist any change, even positive change that requires them to do something new or different. Instead of learning, growing, and expanding their envelope of possibilities, they dig in their heels, justify and rationalize their resistance to change, and often sabotage the change efforts of others. Feeling Unable to Change.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. About the Author.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 79

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. That social entrepreneurs can make a difference is not in question ( here are dozens of examples). But entrepreneurs have more control in this area.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Ameriprise declined a multi-billion dollar TARP loan and at the same time stood behind money market commitments that other firms were not. Often with change, followers can get emotionally “stuck”; they are confused, aren’t certain about what’s expected or resist change and therefore are both literally and figuratively stuck.

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Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 93

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

” Miki Saxon presents Entrepreneurs: Responses to “What Do You Say?” In today’s job market you need to be ambitious and driven if you don’t want to get pushed out by others who spot gaps that could have been filled by you.” The post also points to the brilliant work of Lois Kelly.” ”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Miki Saxon presents Entrepreneurs: Responses to “What Do You Say?” In today's job market you need to be ambitious and driven if you don't want to get pushed out by others who spot gaps that could have been filled by you.". The post also points to the brilliant work of Lois Kelly.".

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As the editor of the journal Innovations , I'm asked with some regularity, "So, what is innovation anyhow? But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". How would you."?

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Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. Entrepreneurs chose not to move away from traditional pathways. Merchants and traders played the game of incremental innovation by focusing on efficiency and optimization.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 17, 2008

Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page Local, Targeted and Religious Marketing… RSS Feed Local, Targeted and Religious Marketing… By Rajesh Setty on Sun 17 Aug 2008, 6:08 PM - View Comments Kavitha (my wife) and Sumukh (our son) are currently in India on a holiday.

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Marketing Licensing Newsletter Blog 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether you’re a digital start-up or an institutional entrepreneur, three simple heuristics offer an excellent way to determine whether a fledgling innovation initiative should be put out of its misery (and yours). Almost all innovation efforts have the hiccoughs and bumps in the road. 1) No Pleasant Surprises.

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Innovation Learning Curve Benchmarking Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Expanded access to microloans did lead some entrepreneurs to increase business investments , but rarely to increased profits.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Instead, B2B entrepreneurs should focus their efforts on small businesses. In this way, the start-up that initially served only small businesses can disrupt incumbents and come to dominate the large enterprise market, too. Instead, entrepreneurs can launch quickly with little capital and improve over time.

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B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. This is your bench of corporate innovators: your intrapreneurs. Executing on Innovation. Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem.

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Self-aware Innovation Engineering Outsourcing 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies.

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Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. And then this small voice, untraceable for a moment because it was so small, started to explain how this plan would put the company in 2nd place in almost every aspect of innovation or time to market.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. However, impact investing’s legitimacy as an alternative asset class remains elusive.

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Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

We’re also facing a new and perilous generation of drug-resistant pathogens. In the long run, the proposition of global market collapse due to biological and pandemic risks cannot be offset by the potential rewards of the next big lifestyle drug. Science/technology community.

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Project Disaggregation Globalization Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. Qualcomm, despite its stronger technology, lost out, because the U.S. As for why the U.S.

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Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook as a busy entrepreneur. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. “Anticipate resistance and welcome it,” one survey respondent advised.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The product manager, who had come up with what he thought was an airtight, iron-clad, compelling and irrefutable business case for launching a fairly clever innovation, completely failed to persuade the impassive CMO. No one should go into an innovation pitch without real information and insight into "What would it take to change your mind?".

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Innovation Brand 8

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Your students would be better served by a high-tech entrepreneur half my age,” I told him. They’ve already heard from entrepreneurs,” he said. “I Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. Beware the entrepreneur. I want you for balance.

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Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

She and von Suttner published several articles in scientific journals, and they caught the attention of a team of entrepreneurs and investors specializing in biotech start-ups. Hilde had initially resisted, worrying that Caliska, with its existing nutraceuticals business, might fancy L-39 more as a dietary supplement than as a pharmaceutical.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Bottom-up Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

The partners act almost as a single firm, sharing knowledge about wine making and markets. We are not talking about conquering a new geographical market or investing millions of dollars in joint R&D. But as Joao Ribeiro, CEO of a partner winery, likes to repeat, Portuguese business people tend to be staunchly independent.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Echoing Green's Lara Galinsky was right in her HBR piece: "Not Everyone Should Be a Social Entrepreneur". In recent years, amazing programs like hers (Echoing Green provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs) have made social entrepreneurs the entrepreneurship sector's new "it kids."

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System Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. That is exactly why technology-led disruption is generally resisted by status quo interests: at least some of them lose out as a consequence of change.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 13