Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Can you make sense of this: Organizations worldwide spend $356 billion a year on leadership development efforts , yet 75% of organizations rate their leadership programs as being not very effective? Some startling leadership statistics: 75% of employees report their boss is the worst and most stressful part of their job.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

The only sustainable form of business leadership is thought leadership. Founder Dan Gilbert and CEO Bill Emerson call this language the company’s “Isms” — which is why the rollicking, fast-paced, eight-hour orientation session is called “Isms in Action.” In business leadership, as in all forms of leadership, words matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

But Kodak did invest heavily in digital imaging — billions of dollars — and carved out a reasonable position in the digital camera space with its line of EasyShare products.* Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. This is hard stuff. That research is summarized here.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Now more than ever , businesses are reaching beyond the boundaries of their organizations, tapping experts, customers, and, more broadly, “the crowd” to build new products, services, and other solutions. At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

deleting prior sentences), and aspects of the product quality (e.g., Inspired writers are more efficient and productive, and spend less time pausing and more time writing. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. They argue for five key roles of leadership: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. So the next time you want to sell an idea, activate a new program, or launch a product, take advantage of the arts. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. They particularly struggle to handle industry transitions when answers come not from the Microsoft suite of products but from somewhat disorderly discovery in the marketplace. Gilbert says he has found success from creating a "modular exchange" between the old and new business.

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