Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. If so sorry about that.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2011

Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. Organization, Phone System, Internet, Transportation, Buyers, Wholesalers, Suppliers. Once the nine windows plan is made the team can then plan and explore solutions to increase customer satisfaction with client support specialists.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 22, 2012

A study of driver demographics in 14 countries by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has found that the number of young drivers has been on a steady decline, with a correlation being found between the availability of internet access and the number of young people choosing to get their driver’s license.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Below is the copy of What we will Do (with the companies name removed) that I sent to the executive director and his team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. Jaws dropped.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. Still today, many executives want the benefits of a fully engaged and thinking workforce but they don’t want to change the management system that in so many ways stifles creativity and innovation and seeking joy in work by all staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. Robinson and in global logistics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s phalanx of attorneys brought arguments perfected from prior disputes, whereas each jurisdiction approached Uber independently and from a blank slate, usually with a modest litigation team. Fixing the Problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Rather, because of its power to magnify so many other leadership strengths. So I'd assert that when you are able to balance this critical skill with your other leadership abilities, you greatly amplify your power and impact. But teams thrive when their members are able to express their not-always-popular points of view.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, the humdrum issue of transportation infrastructure barely registers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It won't be global middle class level with incomes of over $70,000, but still above subsistence living, buying health care, food, education, transportation, and entertainment. A ccelerating GE's Africa "commercial IQ": Going a level deeper in understanding customers (need-based segmentation, pricing, innovation) to better address their needs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. They have to compete just as hard as ever to sustain leadership in the markets that exist today, even as they figure out how to compete in the future. They consistently reinvent themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

So, we made radical team changes and started again with a new set of employee-screening techniques. We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” That first year, the d.school team (led by Perry Klebahn ) sent the executives out to observe and interview customers in BP gas stations. Change management Customer service Informal leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you accept the responsibility to develop a team if you’re not developing yourself? Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

He talked about the boat men of the SEAL teams, and how it was not necessarily the biggest guys who could get the boat out and back as quick, but the smaller men who just had more heart. Companies used to spend a ton of money testing products with focus groups and market research teams. Communication Innovation Leadership'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it. But most of all, it is a failure of leadership to harness and unleash the remarkable potential of the American worker.

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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

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Disney executives formed an exploratory team to reinvent the vacation experience, known as the Next Generation Experience project. Consider GE.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

With the $300 House initiative, it's easy to see the potential to spark innovation that, with a single stroke, could ameliorate several quality-of-life-concerns at once: shelter, water purification, alternative energy, cooking fuel and information access. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. Today, Stephanie A. Stephanie A.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

We tell stories to our coworkers and peers all the time — to persuade someone to support our project, to explain to an employee how he might improve, or to inspire a team that is facing challenges. Sachs says that leaders should ask, “What is the core moral that I’m trying to implant in my team?” What the Experts Say.

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