Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

These interviews covered aspects of the innovation and change these futurists predict, to the timeline and ever-accelerating pace of this change, to suggestions about how the industry could cope with the change to come. At one conference I attended (the Direct Marketing Association, no less!) Having high risk tolerance.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

The results showed multiple stigmatizing perceptions about burnout syndrome, particularly that managers believe ex-burnout employees are less stress-resistant, have weaker leadership skills, and set a poor example. Clearly, burnout syndrome’s negative career impact remains a threat in the longer-term,” they conclude.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This includes developing a vision for the future, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and managing resistance to change.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The short answer is: absolutely because, as we touched on above, executive coaching is far different than standard business coaching. When leaders unlock their potential, they’re far more likely to have increased job satisfaction than if they feel they’re falling short or not delivering disruptive results.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

To prove my point, I’ll not only explain the entire change life-cycle in three short paragraphs, but I’ll do it in simple terms that anyone can understand. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Not just in terms of their own career growth, but in how it would open up a whole new understanding and area of knowledge in their field of study, if not also inspiring others to take up the cause to learn more about this elemental key to our existence. One that benefits not only us or a select few, but all those around us as well.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope. Efficiency is not innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Protected from short term demands, these teams can focus on opportunities beyond the core. This structure, which segregates innovation teams from the core business, has proliferated in industries from online search to consumer packaged goods. AT&T credits the Foundry with doubling the speed of its innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 19, 2012

It’s about bringing creativity, storytelling and leverage to the marketing side of any business. Recently, Prashanti Ganesh from The New Indian Express interviewed me for her article on innovative business cards. But I have had many memorable stories in this short period. I couldn’t resist smiling myself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. Once every job in a company is defined in terms of the changes to be made (both large and small), constant improvement can become the routine. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. Costs reduced? Change management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. Or, to use the legal term, you license their use. The short answer is through terms-of-service agreements and other click wrap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. In terms of the real world of building businesses and creating value, basically, HFTs don’t matter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To resist doing what everyone else is doing or what you are expected to do requires courage. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock. Lafley has noted, the best time to gain market share is when your competitors are in retreat.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Moreover, in many countries the prestige, pay, and job security of big companies are difficult to resist. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Leaders everywhere are hungry for big ideas that change the game — products that wow, marketing that captures the imagination of customers. At the same time, leaders everywhere are wary of big ideas that bomb — innovations that fall flat, messages that miss the mark. What's calculated boldness? Have a twinkle in your eye.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

That’s short-sighted. In this way, the start-up that initially served only small businesses can disrupt incumbents and come to dominate the large enterprise market, too. Framing your opportunity in terms of the benefits you offer and not customer demographics will help you see opportunities in ever-larger enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Baker Hughes had resisted Halliburton’s overtures for months before agreeing to the deal, fearing that it would not pass anti-trust muster; it accepted the offer in the end only with a large break-up fee of $3.5 This would reduce options for customers (huge oil companies themselves) and may reduce innovation, they reasoned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. This also helped us get rid of a few "culture resisters," senior people who opposed constructive change. This also means valuing integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

For the past three years, Bayer has invested time and money to carefully build awareness and skills across its global leadership on leading teams that are more culturally and gender balanced –and how to then use that balance for competitive advantage in the market. ” In terms of nationality , the tracking only began in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And even small improvements in practices can have a huge impact: Among manufacturers, for example, we found that a one-point gain on our five-point scale correlates with 23% higher productivity, 14% higher market capitalization, and a 1.4-percentage-point-higher and then devising metrics for monitoring progress over the short and long terms.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes. The first is breakdown , where early experiments fade in the face of resistance. In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. If they decided to act, the impact could be immense. Breakthrough Science.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In short, when resilience is driven by self-enhancement, success comes at a high price: denial. — such leaders are not necessarily good for the group, much like bacteria or parasites are much more problematic when they are more resistant. This always requires leadership, but the right leaders must be chosen.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

We’re also facing a new and perilous generation of drug-resistant pathogens. Because the long-term horizon and trade-offs required to develop scalable responses to pandemic threats are exactly the type of problem too big to be solved by any one sector. We believe an important first step in this effort is for the U.S.

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