Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge. Connecting the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear.

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

They are essential for suggesting, developing, and sustaining innovative new projects and for helping companies stay competitive. In fact, many face obstacles when trying to innovate in their organizations. For example, pushing for change without being told to can ignite resistance from supervising managers and fellow colleagues.

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Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Numerous forecasting models are based off economic indicators like the Consumer Confidence Index and it is critical that you follow and understand how these leading indicators relate to your organization's operations.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. What do you do?

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

If his players didn’t work hard enough during practice, as hard as he did preparing for it, he ordered them off the court, then had the student managers collect the balls, turn off the lights, and lock the doors. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. We seed our organizations with resources — people, capital, and equipment — and those resources have productive value in certain areas. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. It always has.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They are very good at coming up with innovative solutions to problems. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

It also encourages their developers to identify software fixes and new products. The developers have three minutes to present their ideas, and developers and managers choose the best. But he's convinced it's paid off in product innovations, internal improvements, and satisfied customers. The results?

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Process Software How To Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Point being: New managers always can benefit from plenty of support. It’s hard to find precise spending data on the amounts invested in management training (for supervisors and middle managers) and leadership development (for senior executives). Without solid shop-floor management, operations grind slowly.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 11

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leaders know that culture is often the key to their organization’s success whether they’re trying to enhance employee satisfaction, boost productivity, or launch a new initiative. We often compare the typical experience of culture to operating a plane on autopilot. Organizations have standard ways of operating.

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Succession Environment Learning-by-Doing Innovation 136

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

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Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? CEOs (and to some extent, CMOs) are so preoccupied with Wall Street and/or the management fad of the day that their eye has drifted from the heartbeat of their brands.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Some of the things that management identified as having been deficient in prior initiatives included that leadership changes had prevented consistency and carry-over, programs didn't attempt to change employee behavior, and middle managers didn't embrace the initiatives. By all means, choose a name and stick with it.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees. Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. We openly disagree with one another.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Online MBA Rankings Recently added Maximize Employee Engagement, Alignment and Productivity Strengthen Your “Critical Connections&# Cartoon Boosts “Voice&# in U.S. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. The Politics of Innovation.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet. Imagine what would happen, for example, if an organization decimated the ranks of middle management without equipping front-line employees with the skills, incentives, and information they need to manage themselves.

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Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

We''ve studied the extent of the problem with an innovative assessment tool, the Leadership Versatility Index. Coworkers can therefore indicate if a manager overdoes it on four dimensions of behavior: forceful, enabling, strategic, and operational. Most executives are rated "too much" on at least one of these dimensions [PDF].

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Self-aware Middle Management Tools Audience 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. In fact, we lose up to 40 percent of our productivity by switching between tasks; the more we switch, the worse our performance.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. They also built a process governance structure that was an organizational overlay on their functional and product structures. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15