Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Strategy is important, innovation is important. If you’re going to accomplish anything big or important—and that’s what leadership is all about—you’ll need systems. Good systems are what we use to accomplish tasks that have to be done, at a certain level of quality or accuracy, again and again. Because they don’t have systems.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 6, 2020

And innovate, innovate, innovate. Greenleaf's words about foresight are very much true during these challenging times, as they were before and during the 2008 crisis. Pat Falotico CEO Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership Consulting Communication Stay connected! Communicate. Communicate. Not seeing the table?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano (PublicAffairs, 2019) The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out as a sales rep selling big systems against IBM- which provided me with an early, first-hand perspective on Gravity. A friend of mine, Scott McKain, introduced me to Clint Greenleaf and Greenleaf Book Group and the rest is history. No one wanted to change the IBM status quo. I Think Not.

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