Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Helping People Change : Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin L. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. As new ideas are generated, the require permission and resources from managers, who may not understand the new idea due to their lack of specialized knowledge. Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 558-578.

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Creativity P&L Senge Handbook 106

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. As new ideas are generated, the require permission and resources from managers, who may not understand the new idea due to their lack of specialized knowledge. Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 558-578.

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Creativity Senge P&L Handbook 84

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

A study just published in the Academy of Management Journal examined how others aspects of CEO personality impact firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SME) in a dynamic industries (e.g. Our strategy reflects a high level of flexibility in managing political, economic, and financial risks. high technology). Simmons, Ph.D.

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CEO P&L Company Venture Capitalist 118

Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

As Burke (2018) highlights, change management is a mix of consulting and strategy development with an understanding of systems and behavioral science. Dunlop, P. Diffusion of innovation (5 th ed.). Rogers (2003) points out the essential nature of credibility in being a change agent, embracing knowledge and safety. References.

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Rogers Ethics P&L Leadership 89

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 15, 2019

Today, L&D professionals increasingly use social learning as a powerful tool for leadership and organizational development. During trade shows we promote CoachingOurselves, our management and leadership social learning program, with a pop-up banner displaying a group of participants seated around a table involved in a discussion.

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Leadership Development Development P&L Leadership 33

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. And yet management sponsorship is crucial for any ambitious initiative.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Why aren''t leaders tapping the crowdfunding capabilities of their own innovation ecosystems to stimulate their people and ideas?

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. One such activity was introduced by Deb Henretta while leading P&G Asia. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. That’s an understatement.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

But other companies have managed to thrive long after the departure of their talented founders (GE, IBM, Procter & Gamble, HP until recently). It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." Place product experience first, not P&L.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? Asking A.G.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master. Here it is.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

My acronym for BUSINESS : B ig-picture U nderstanding S ymbiosis I n N omenclature, E conomics, S ystems, and S ervices WORK : W indows of O pportunity, R equiring K now-how My acronym for GOALS : G etting O rganized A llowing L ifeblood S ystems G rowth O pportunities A nd L egacy S upport THINK : T o H ave I deas, N ew K eys FAILURE : F inding A (..)

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." Who declared 7 or 10 or 15 percent growth in earnings a sacrosanct pursuit, above all other corporate goals — like the innovation that leads to novel solutions that address customer needs?

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GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As business boomed, new hires and managers competed hard with each other to scramble up the corporate ladder (while prying other people's fingers off of it). The firm had to lay off some even of these ambitious, hard-charging people — an awful experience for most managers, including George. What does happiness mean?

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P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. And more recently, athletic apparel company Puma (working with my colleagues at PwC and the UK's TruCost) produced an " environmental P&L " which measured the "real" cost of carbon and other environmental inputs like water. He's absolutely right.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher [.].

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Blog Review Planning Books 85

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

If you've done it too soon and tried to modularize parts of an unsolved puzzle across suppliers, then each time one of those unanticipated problems or interdependencies arises, you have to cross corporate boundaries to make the necessary changes — changes which could dramatically impact the P&L of a supplier.

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Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Kotter and Dan S.

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P&L Kotter Books Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Once, the demise of the Great A&P would have been front-page news from Maine to California. For more than four decades, from 1920 into the 1960s, A&P was the largest retailer in the world. A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. and John A.

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P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The larger trend here is the continued growth of "open" — open data and open innovation, including new value-chain business partnerships and cattle-call contests inviting in any and all ideas. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15