Remove Innovation Remove Skills Remove Technology Remove Welch
article thumbnail

Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. They often don’t possess the skill sets to add value to the initiatives they want to control.

article thumbnail

25 Especially Inspiring and Empowering Quotes From Today’s Top Leaders

Lead from Within

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

Covey 128
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Possibility Maximizer: The Conference Board

Sales Wolf Blog

 As listed above The Conference Board's mission statement provides a clear purpose for existence and its carefully defined values of relevance, openness, collaboration, innovation, and integrity provide crystal clear guidance on how it will execute this mission.

article thumbnail

Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood

Harvard Business Review

While the incumbent customer lexicon wasn’t abandoned, it neither drove nor literally defined how marketers and innovators talked about the people they were serving. The company requires a new vocabulary to express its increasingly innovative self.

CEO 8
article thumbnail

To Lead Change, Explain the Context

Harvard Business Review

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

Welch 8
article thumbnail

World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric.

Blog 306
article thumbnail

What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies. Who would follow a person who's thoughts and skills are out dated. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

Blog 419