Leading Blog
JANUARY 6, 2014
Author Richie Norton explains that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid. Stupid is the New Smart—the common denominator for success, creativity, and innovation in business and life. The Power of Starting Something Stupid is about finding the courage to do the things you don’t feel you are ready to do.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.
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Six Disciplines
APRIL 13, 2011
After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. 85% of leadership teams spend less than 1 hour per month discussing strategy.[2]. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [2] Cited Sources: [1] (R. Kaplan and D.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 24, 2017
If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. Norton and their Palladium associates. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.
Tanveer Naseer
AUGUST 13, 2013
The following is a guest piece by Ritchie Norton. Brown continues, “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” The data overwhelmingly concluded that the greatest companies had what Collins called “Level 5 leadership.” Why do so many people, businesses, marriages, and even entire empires fall?
Strategy Driven
JULY 13, 2011
Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Kaplan and Norton point out that customer satisfaction, internal business processes, learning, and revenue growth are important drivers of long-term performance.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Con: Breakthrough innovation may not get greenlit; time-to-market may seem to lag (though I’d argue what’s released is far better aligned with customer needs and more likely to successfully scale). Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic).
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