Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of "middle managers" is enough to make people''s eyes roll back. But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. If the organization isn''t being innovative, the solution must be structural.

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 8

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Some teams painted walls or performed other much maintenance-type projects while others just spent time with children or adults who longed to connect. I’m encouraged to see that more companies are doing these types of service projects. By doing this, ITA Group employees were serving a cause greater than self.

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Conference McCarthy Godin Middle Management 265

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. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2012

Over time, this builds culture where people don’t own things up, pass the buck, blame others and cruise along the status-quo – exactly opposite of what we need in an initiative-led and innovation-oriented business environment. Share this list with all your senior managers, middle managers and technical leaders.

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Leadership Download Middle Management Leadership Styles 195

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 28, 2010

It includes an article that Jason Pankau and I wrote entitled “To Boost Productivity and Innovation, Connect with the Core.&# Next week the Summer edition of the Leader to Leader Journal comes out. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Film McCarthy Godin Middle Management 170

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Big firms already have combined a strategic, visionary C-suite with a cadre of solid, experienced middle managers who make sure the work gets done. The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders. May On How To Encourage Creativity & Innovation What Will Your Leadership Legacy Be?

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Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Lack of Middle Management Buy-In: Middle management has a very strong influence on culture because they have the most immediate connection to most of your employees—and often customers, as well.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. original in their ideas, their creative and innovative thoughts go beyond. David Burkus from LDRLB presents In Praise of Middle Managers. These individuals are the.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community). Thanks to Amit Agarwal (India’s first Professional Blogger at award winning Digital Inspiration blog) for listing QAspire Blog in Directory of Top Indian Blogs under ‘HR/Management/Business’ category. Check out the feature.

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PPM Directory Storytelling Blog 109

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. What a simple idea! Why not let employees vote for a local charity and organize an outing to help them. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Decentralization McCarthy Godin Conference 218

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. The permitting time has since been nearly halved for key pilot projects. Change leaders are visionaries.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

I recently conducted a leadership development program for middle managers and asked the participants why they were there. This may take some creativity and innovation on your part. Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? Clarify why participants are in the program.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 87

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

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. On the one hand, top managers need to provide autonomy so that middle managers feel comfortable taking initiative.

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Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

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. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business? Who did what?

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Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company. In our relationship with RelayHealth and other similar partnerships, we are seeking new ways to innovate – and looking over our shoulder.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Steve Roesler presents Managing: You’re Still In It Together posted at All Things Workplace where Steve has a reminder for managers about how to be a successful. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Leadership McCarthy Blog Motivation 170

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

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. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. You and Your Team.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. Nor is there a single common model for managing it. But effective implementation falls, not surprisingly, to middle managers.

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Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

In a previous post , I cited Google's "20% time" policy, where software developers spend 20% of their jobs on projects they dream up. The developers have three minutes to present their ideas, and developers and managers choose the best. The process teams turn the suggestions into online projects that resolve the issues.

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Process Software How To Tools 14

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 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

even though their workforce participation is equal to or greater than that of men, according to a White House Project study. Black women are toiling in middle management and that is usually the height of their career.". The numbers are even more dire for women of color, especially black women.

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Diversity Competitive Advantage Middle Management CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

During that prep meeting, the staff person strongly encouraged her to downplay or even eliminate any discussion of the newer, more innovative things she was working on — and not to ask the CEO for anything specific, like a policy decision, funding, or public support. "A Communication Leadership Managing up'

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Execution Middle Management Welch CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. This isn’t just about trimming your list of projects.

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Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. It applied the same ground rules and again cross-functional teams were created.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. In the past, bringing a multicultural approach to business leadership was often viewed as a lucky accident of birth or upbringing.

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Globalization Development Short-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Middle managers had to go back and forth between firing people and finding new ones with different skills, and few people believed that the yearly planning and budgeting cycle was anything more than a painful exercise, since it was always changing midway through. What are the lessons learned that you can apply to the next project?

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QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Projects that bring divergent thoughts and multi stakeholders together =best way to learn. senior leadership and middle management – Tanmay Vora. Q4: What are the road blocks that L&D practitioners & Managers are likely to face in implementing these change intervention? – Sahana Chattopadhyay.

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