Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey. How do you weather disappointment and failure?

Books 236

Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion."

Social Capital 77

Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. The current steps for vetting ideas will gain new criteria for selecting ideas that will be developed.

Wilde 95

Wilde Idea Generation Morale Process 95

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Nonetheless, it was important to human growth and understanding to entertain it because without the exploration that comes from new ideas, I suspect we would simply all fade to black eventually… or die of boredom. Now, more than ever, businesses are having to rethink their product and how they deliver to market.

Organization 77

Organization Idea Generation Diversity Environment 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time.

Marketing 17

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time.

Marketing 10

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

These inventions, products, and businesses all started with an idea. An idea that to anyone other than its creator(s) may have seemed like an insane thing to invest much time, money, or effort in bringing to fruition. But for the masterminds behind these great ideas, the risk paid off and so too can your next great idea.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

Company 15

Company Agility Energy Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

Audience 16

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data. In our daily lives, moreover, we can see a very persuasive natural experiment playing out in the realm of marketing communications and advertising. A Forever21 billboard now reaches out and grabs you. This is not merely a logical theory.

Altshuller 15

Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

While I thought many of the ideas were legitimately interesting, after a few hours of working together, a nagging concern began to creep in: that the team hadn't quite formulated what question it was seeking to answer. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

Power 15

Power Constraint Transportation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

For example, we'll ask candidates to develop an innovation strategy for the CEO of a major beverage company, synthesizing insights from the market conditions outlined in a beverage industry trend report (which we provide). The offering should at once communicate the candidate's individuality and appeal to a broader market.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. Number of ideas generated. stage to the next. The result?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

At Apple (or at any innovative company), they take a little bit of this, sprinkle in a little bit of that and that and that to churn out market-busting ideas such as iTunes, and the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (along with a few market disasters like the G4 Cube computer). Shake it up.

How To 16

How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Tim Brown, the CEO of the innovation and design firm IDEO, says that when his company takes on a design challenge of almost any type — and IDEO does everything from designing new products to envisioning new ways to deliver healthcare — it invariably starts by asking How Might We.

Innovation 18

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

Audience 9

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

He lays out the theory that has changed the way we think about innovation: disrupters enter the market with low-end or new market innovations and eventually upend an industry. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

Books 12

Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

When a company has a clear strategy for a new product launch, for example, a leader needs to provide firm directives to get the marketing, distribution, and sales people working together and moving in one direction. Dominance works best when the leader’s job is to get everyone aligned quickly and moving in the same direction.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Identifying and supporting pathways to implementation. An immediate answer to the question “who implements and how?

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Productivity gained.

Strategic Planning 66

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 66

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”.

Blog 385

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. None of them involve idea-generation schemes. Rather, they are all about translating ideas into action.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

Many companies today rely on content marketing and native advertising to gain visibility for their brand — after all, 70% of people say they’d rather learn about products through content rather than through traditional advertising. First, we looked at content marketing services.

Advertising 8

Advertising ROI Content Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8