Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Three critical questions will save you time and improve decision making with fewer headaches In a world with a constantly growing AI presence, where data is cheap, and you can easily outsource routine tasks to large language models, your decision making ability plays a more vital role than ever. Share them before anyone presents any ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Guest Post By: Sheri Staak, Innovative Business Leader at Staak Report (learn more about Sheri at the end of this post). If the media’s constant bad news about company layoffs, overseas outsourcing, and a decreased availability of jobs isn’t getting you down, the attitude at work probably is. Find out Why.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 11, 2009

The following resources substantiate my claim that success is not a zero-sum game : According to Steve Farber — author of Greater Than Yourself — the only way for knowledge to truly lead to power in a person’s life is for that person to give it away. Overcoming selfishness is critical to effective leadership.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

” The Power of Questions. Talk about the power of a good question to crack complexity. “A A really, really good question has the power to be your anchor in that boiling sea of doubt. Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. Let’s talk about questions. Tips to Ask Good Questions.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you look at its opposite, this declaration clearly demonstrates the importance great leadership plays in creating successful companies. If you are searching for practical, actionable approaches to improving your leadership you need to read The Pursuit of Something Better.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Leadership Practices to Watch. Northern Command. Take a smart risk.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It can be creative and innovative, but sometimes it fogs up and must be cleaned by clearing out old views and replacing them with fresh ones. Having your product customers outsource their management and maintenance services to your company may prove to be a long-term win-win arrangement. Unique Leadership Skills.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Outsourcing, privatizing and collaborating plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. Most organizations do not tap this power source and, as a result, do not get the best out of their employees. Consider one of the organizations we studied , Wipro BPO, an India-based global leader in the business-process-outsourcing industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. The Autonomous Outsourcer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

In one survey of 10,000 senior leaders, 97% of them said that being strategic was the leadership behavior most important to their organization’s success. Tethering yourself to your desk may help you power through more emails, but it’s rarely a recipe for innovative strategic thinking. Jonathan-Knowles/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. It also brought back work that had been outsourced. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Amidst the acrimony, it seems hard to imagine that public leaders could envision and operate such a platform, or that private innovators could work with them more collaboratively on it — but it’s not impossible. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

You can’t outsource that to a computer. Once a company has outsourced any manual work or task work to computers, drones, or a 3D printer, knowledge workers and creatives will make up the bulk of any future digital company. In doing so, they can perpetuate a more powerful culture and even increase sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. It also brought back work that had been outsourced. That's a good question.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Here is the background: I have been talking about the “people problems&# because of outsourcing for a while. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The fundamental challenges that CEOs of drug companies face are similar to those of any CEO: innovate, manage risk and uncertainty, and create long-term firm value. Purpose, meaning, and recognition are more powerful motivators than economic self-interest, and large external rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation. I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Most managers don''t have the power to change how salaries or bonuses are handled at their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

.” It may also be an intentional power grab. If you’re annoyed at your colleague’s desire to call the shots, she’s highly likely to feel the same way about you, adds Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Kellogg and coauthor of the HBR article “ Make Your Enemies Your Allies.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer). He previously served in executive leadership at MTV, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and most recently as President of Digital Media at OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Management and Leadership – Managing Your Virtual Team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This human powered b t filter was a handy and powerful tool. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. Add to this volatile mixture the powerful accelerant of emerging digital technology and all hell breaks loose. Power down. That was always a good feeling.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Too many lead for the sake of position and power and what that entitles them to. Too many lead for the sake of position and power and what that entitles them to. Common sense no longer helps us connect the dots. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? He has worked as a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, at Apple, and Booz & Company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Shin, to the CEO role was met with interest in leadership circles. That seems to be the belief in a growing number of boardrooms that have decided that power will not reside in a single person in the corner office. Shareholders evidently support the idea of "co-leadership." Does it really work to have co-CEOs?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea.

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