Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 7, 2011

So outside ears, and eyes, are important for concert-caliber musicians, winning sports teams and Olympic-level athletes. They parcel out their observations carefully. The sort of coaching that fosters effective innovation and judgment, not merely the replication of technique, may not be so easy to cultivate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

He also centralized IT to remove redundancies and incompatibilities that made teaming across silos nearly impossible. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. They play well as a team. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Half the battle in encouraging innovation involves removing barriers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. Of course, a goal that is too ambitious will break the team’s spirit. Do it fast.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Innovation Project management' All of this is right, as far as it goes. Those that don’t, don’t.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? The analytics team focused on three questions. First, how can we improve the performance of our agents and teams? A man who is. Take Sprint.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. The innovation portfolio. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. This same logic holds in the case of climate change adaptation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

You should be concerned about the aging curves of your marketing people; you should want to know if your tech support folks will deliver better outcomes tomorrow than today; you should be predicting which sales teams will procure the most lucrative contracts with the minimum risks. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. The sidebar “Why We Need Fresh Blood” explains how diversity on any team often produces the best results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Then ask the student to “compare and contrast” the vacuum salesman’s approach with a peace negotiator’s tactic of asking for a small and relatively unimportant parcel of land before requesting a large payment of reparations. But a waitlist can give your team a much better grip on the reigns.

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