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JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Establish Clear Goals for the Big Thinkers. This was the story with Amanda.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. An increasing number of mission-driven, innovative professionals are finding they can't resist this opportunity. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

That’s the management goal that Tony Hseih, founder of e-commerce giant Zappos, aims to achieve by the end of 2014. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. Not exactly fertile ground for collaboration and innovation. Radically flat. It’s not a new concept. There are reasons to think the experiment might work at Zappos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

We’re often seeing so-called blockchains that are not really innovative, but instead are merely databases, which have existed for decades, calling themselves blockchains to jump on the buzzword bandwagon. Regulators could remake the financial system by rethinking the best way to achieve policy goals, without diluting standards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers. Few are transforming their core businesses by radically simplifying their operations and seeking out new pockets of growth through better customer delivery and innovation in developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Even operational efficiency was unaffected. He realized that the prime goal of the social media initiative should be to reinforce employees' positive feelings about the company, their colleagues, and their jobs. Enjoyment is well known to be a strong motivator of innovation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? Operations Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Did departmental restructuring cause too much stress? After forcing Nardelli out in 2007, founder Bernie Marcus got the company back on the competing-by-boosting-margins-through-innovation road. The goal, writes Aimee Groth, is "radical transparency" in which employees "have the flexibility to pursue what they''re passionate about."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. First, what strategic goal would virtual care help achieve today? There are solutions to this problem, but they require material restructuring and can be costly. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” Outcomes define the goal of the organization and set direction for its differentiation. Few health care organizations have made it their explicit goal to deliver excellent outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a restructuring designed to unite the organization behind a single strategy and create high-value experiences for their customers. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Basing a portion of compensation on common goals fosters collaboration. Now one Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. Misconception 2: The goal justifies any means. Information and authority flow in linked circles, with people taking on shifting roles as needed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Interestingly, it is not strictly a “plan,” in the sense of a precise sequence of actions leading to pre-determined goals. To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan.

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