Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Increase in gig and short term contract work MANY hybrid work teams (for a while) THEN in 3 to 5 years, there will be a “back to office” movement written about in HBR and other business magazines. Maybe) by April or May of 2021 (after vaccinations), we will see hiring go back up.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In fact, it were the L&D teams that were instrumental in bringing about wider acceptance of innovative measures, processes and strategies, including reimagining how employees learn to work in a digitized world. Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

At the most basic level, the casual nature of messaging on Slack makes it conducive to short, friendly exchanges that more closely mirror the in-person conversations that take place in the office. To make a success of digital transformation, effective leadership and mature organizational culture is required.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team. There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While you might not detect brand taints associated with overexposure in the short-term, this principle holds true across most genres over time. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. " It's not unusual for us to have short discussions that end with me saying I think we should do this, any problems you can think of? I work with a small group of leaders. That's consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

But a better starting point is to think about what gets in the way of innovation , especially in firms that already have lots of talented, creative, and motivated people. In other words, by identifying and removing barriers, it might be possible to accelerate innovation simply by leveraging the capability that's already there.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. link] Allan W.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Losing your temper only shows a lack of maturity and self-control. Self-serving leaders may be successful in the short-term, but they won’t be able to create a sustainable followership over time. You might be a Frankenboss if you…. Lose your temper – Some leaders think by yelling or cursing at employees they are motivating them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. ” Investors seemingly just weren’t looking for radical innovation from GE.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M. Instead, it was a byproduct.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Of course, this aspect of the job, which we can put into either the leadership or the management bucket, the way I think about it is if management is about getting things done through people, this stuff about the how in terms of how we coordinate activities, how we make decisions and so forth. JULIAN: Now that’s exactly right.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I happen to agree with Romney that A123's demise is yet more evidence that the government should not pick winners and losers among companies — whether those firms are mature auto makers like GM and Chrysler that have lost their way or start-ups in promising new green industries like A123 and Solyndra, the solar-panel manufacturer that failed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. Instead, give your innovators general financial goals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Aggressive-growth and family-controlled dual-class companies display higher long-term shareholder returns. This structure allows a dual-class structure for a defined period early in a company’s life to allow founders to pursue risky and bold initiatives without subjecting themselves to the pressures from short-term investors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Know the risks and the costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Ten Ways to Inhibit Innovation (HBR.org). But a better starting point is to think about what gets in the way of innovation." Here are the first five: Our focus on short-term results drives out ideas that take longer to mature. Innovation is someone else's job and not part of everyone's responsibilities.

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Company Management Short-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Where marketing is more in charge, R&D’s complaints tend to be about a lack of imagination, of too many incremental innovations. They’ve studied the role of strategic innovation in corporate performance. But over the long term, marketing doesn’t drive company performance—breakthrough innovation does.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. If we just take our investment in innovation and redirect it to our core business, we’ll be much better off.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Since the last financial crisis, many new regulations have been implemented to protect shareholders, increasing the pressure on management to meet earnings expectations by prioritizing short-term over long-term. Besides, the internet giant recently missed the boat on critical innovation sectors, one of them being social.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

There is no doubt that being energetic is contagious and therefore a short-term source of momentum. Grant’s conclusion is clear: a willingness to help others is not just the essence of effective cooperation and innovation — it is also the key to accelerating your own performance. Maturity and Caliber.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. Consider the newspaper-publishing industry. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In two short years, Kwid gained 15% of the market. Three things allow firms like Amazon and Renault to succeed in India’s consumer market: The first is their CEOs’ strategic and long-term commitment to the market. More importantly, Renault has taken Kwid to many other markets including South America.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

The resulting Sanford Data Collaborative, now in its second year, has attracted regional and national partners and is already beginning to deliver data-driven innovations that are improving care delivery, patient engagement, and care access. The question was, how best to leverage it. Here we describe three that hold particular promise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Filling the gap requires either innovative new offerings or acquisitions. Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Over the stipulated five-year time horizon, this seemed reasonable.

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