N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 11, 2017
The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” By viewing technology construction as an artistic endeavor rather than a mechanical one, we are freed to not only build applications that have a stronger ROI, but also to do a better job of managing IT people.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. But dont count them out for long; if theres one thing Chinese companies are good at, its implementing a "fast follower" strategy. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2014
A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2011
There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. I saw this focus on empowering talent when I spoke to top managers at Verizon in May.
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