Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Often referred to as pacesetters, companies that have chosen to embrace and engage cloud, analytics, mobile, and social strategies are cleaning the clock of their competitors who have chosen the path of cautious resistance or even abstinence. NOTE WELL: The real pacesetters are using all four strategies – not one or two. About the Author.

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Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them. Doesn’t interpret concerns as resistance. They’ll be more innovative. When you add up all these reasons, it’s easy to see why we have an empathy deficit among leaders and their people.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Blanchard Servant Leader 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Motivating people to try something new, or to get on with innovation, is tough when the rules of the game are up in the air. Uncertainty is one of the primary reasons that people resist change. Seeds of innovation could sprout. Waiting for decisions that provide a direction, any direction, can be paralyzing.

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Uncertainty Tips Safe Harbor Brainstorming 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Although most people do not have the personal magnetism of an Oussama Bin-Laden or a Martin Luther King, there is a subset of people who can engender a strong sense of loyalty in others. Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Soon consumers will be able to: (1) control the flow and use of personal data, (2) build their own loyalty programs, (3) dictate their own terms of service, and (4) tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost. Where do you stand? by Leslie A.

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

And yes, many of us have also seen evidence that its opposite, humility, inspires loyalty, helps to build and sustain cohesive, productive team work, and decreases staff turnover. Resist "master of the universe" impulses. Resist falling for your own publicity. Rely on those who have relevant qualification and expertise.

Development 10

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

We manage the measurable, rather than the things that create meaning that fuels creativity, that enables innovative thinking and that helps any company to outpace the market. Profitability up 16%, Productivity up 18%, customer loyalty up 12% and quality up an incredible 60%. Am I revealing a certain naïveté in even writing this?

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Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In a safe environment employees can relax, invoking the brain’s higher capacity for social engagement, innovation, creativity, and ambition. They resist because they believe that power is a zero-sum game, they are reluctant to allow others to make mistakes, and they fear facing negative consequences from subordinates’ decisions.

Leadership 8

Leadership Ethics Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

With the focus on the primary function the tool is supposed to perform, it's easier to resist the temptation to "overbuild" the application or go feature crazy. Any system has the potential to serve people better if you are willing to measure, follow up, adapt, and innovate. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Media Mentor Incentives Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Especially when an organization is asked to become more innovative and to perform beyond normal levels, having followers with an unusually strong belief in the leader and their vision increases the odds of success. Over time, deepening loyalty creates negative changes in the leader’s behavior. Bu charisma can be a slippery slope.

Charisma 8

Charisma Self-aware Leadership Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Lindbergh and Miller were consistently startled — and frustrated — by the resistance to even their most compelling insights. ” These Stompers were more open to data-driven suggestion not because they necessarily bought into Moneyball metrics , Lindbergh observes, but out of gratitude and loyalty.

Objective 9

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Bell, Customer Loyalty Consultant and author at [link]. is a Senior Consultant with NextMove and Partner at Innovation Partners International and author of Conversations Worth Having. Michael Hyatt. Torres, Ph.D.,

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. “Anticipate resistance and welcome it,” one survey respondent advised.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 9, 2020

Urban-rural differences in partisan political loyalty is as familiar in the United States as they are in other countries,” the researchers say. “The general consensus has been that the origins of this divide lie within the personal characteristics of the people who live in rural or urban communities. “By

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Politics Long-term Consensus Education 92