Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Blog Post ).

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The Practical Leader

JULY 6, 2022

In a few short months their high-growth market sharply reversed direction at a dizzying rate. He told her of similar market downturns he’d lived through and the sleepless nights he’d experienced as his life work and life savings hung in the balance. ” Julia was exhausted. Revenues had plunged off a cliff.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. They consider the idea itself, the team, the market and more. Consider what venture capitalists do.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. The mindset and skill set for the latter is vastly different than those that enabled your creative expression. Others do not. Here’s an example.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, "Innovative Tech CEO | Driving Digital Transformation and Leading High-Performance Teams." Optimized Summary Your summary (or "About" section) should tell your story, highlighting your achievements, skills, and what sets you apart. Prioritize skills that are most relevant to the roles you are aiming for.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. They need to be resourceful in developing homegrown skills. About Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Executives there had repeatedly shut down his attempts to develop a modified product for the Latin America market. He believes the new offering would revolutionize not only his region, but other markets as well. When we met, he expressed deep frustration with his home office in Germany. Despite the negative response, Tomas kept trying.

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Marketing Wilde Innovation Learning-by-Doing 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), ’ Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was a skilled executive and market innovator in the corporate world. He was General Manager at both Mitsubishi Electric and About.com.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. This skill takes practice. Toastmasters is great for honing presentation skills). Test ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles. Style one: Market-driven CMOs who capitalize on the voice of customers. Market-driven CMOs are great listeners. Market driven CMOs listen to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Economists and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Errors compound, causing unnecessary traffic slowdowns at best and multiple-vehicle pileups at worst. traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. If your company has wildly different digital marketing activities for each brand or region, you know what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

But for those companies, engaging with this nascent market must go beyond latching onto a few hot collaborative startups by buying them or partnering with them. Partly in response to pleas from established players like taxi and hotel companies, municipal governments have tried to corral the Wild West of sharing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. But with $10 billion in 2014 sales and an annual growth rate of 14% over the last five years, the grocery delivery market is booming.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. As it happens, today is also the official publication date for Scaling Up Excellen ce by Huggy Rao and me.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He was asked to explain his strategies for expanding distribution and introducing new products to market. Back when I was hiring people as an executive at a large business, I’d solicit candidates, look at a batch of resumes, decide who had the requisite skills on paper, and then interview the top three or four. A culture of rudeness.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Regular meditation and all the skills it improves – focus, concentration, mindfulness, patience, stress resiliency, emotional intelligence, and more – has been a massive game changer for me. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The Bay Area is the heart of innovation in the software industry; coming here to bring their businesses to life is the dream of many tech founders. Not just for her, but for all the talented people who want to build businesses and drive innovation in the United States. The moment I heard this, my heart sank. on business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Many workers have found, well into their careers, that their physical skills for making and transporting “things” are less relevant and valuable than the once were. Education and access may also need to evolve, to ensure that the benefits of technological innovation aren’t limited to an elite.

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