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DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? Blog Post ). We need to make our interactions count.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That''s why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. Yet, the power of surprise is necessary to create business breakthroughs. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 25, 2012

That's why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. Yet, the power of surprise is necessary to create business breakthroughs. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

APRIL 21, 2009

I was thinking about American Idol when I read the just released book, hot off the presses - "The Power of Small" written by my 2 fave advertising gurus - Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They manage to inspire us, make us laugh and even make us cry, showing us how "small" can change our lives in a BIG way!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 30, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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LDRLB

JULY 19, 2012

To celebrate the upcoming launch of LDRLB contributor Soren Kaplan’s new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs , we’ve arranged for a free webinar for the LDRLB community. Check out the details below and register today. Leading Disruptive Innovation. When: July 26, 2012. About Soren.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval write the following in their book, The Power of Nice , A Yale University School of Management study found that cheerfulness and warmth spread far more quickly through an office than irritability and depression. There’s something powerful about a smile. Got A Minute? #4

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan. Leapfrogging is a powerful book in how surprise powers innovative breakthroughs. Through easy to read, bite-sized chapters, Max summarizes the bulk of strategy research and strategic models and demystifies the thinking process that separates leaders from managers. Innovation. We’re biased.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Self-promoting divas and power-hoarding executives destroy organizational trust. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

They’re busy having meetings, doing power point presentations but making no improvements in the operation. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Thornton is the author of numerous articles and 13 books on management and leadership. Plan and Do Planning is important, but so is execution.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Consider leaving a comment!

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

Great sales pros know exactly how to influence either type, because they ask a powerful question that tells which person is sitting in front of them (or on the phone). You ask a powerful question that reveals the buyer’s type. It’s a bad story: “The last guy who managed our money lost 40% of our portfolio.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“However, the power of this book is in how it integrates these time tested, common sense ideas into a useful whole.” “Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. Are there new networks — Internets of Things?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Prioritizing work can be frustrating, especially if you work for a hands-off manager or a company that doesn’t give you clear goals. ” It’s easy to point blame at our managers and organizations when we experience high levels of stress or an overwhelming amount of work. Most of us face this reality each and every day.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. economy may be succumbing to what he calls “the Medici cycle,” named for the powerful family of medieval Florence. Power to protect money.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

In speaking with the management team, we saw familiar signs of pain. And several weak players were holding back the already-strained management team. The price of that indecision is becoming increasingly obvious: the company is sliding on market share and several middle management stars have left to join competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Rob Kaplan, Director of Sustainability at Walmart, gave an example of this important difference using electronics. Walmart’s Kaplan points out that the last two specialty stores the company tried, “made in the USA” and “women owned” both started online and moved into the real world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Experienced hiring managers know that setbacks are inevitable and want to see how individuals have handled failure in the past. Analysis of ghSMART assessments by Kaplan and Sorensen showed that the more likable leaders had higher odds of getting hired for any leadership position. times more likely to be hired.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Our view of the world is powered by personal algorithms: observing how all of the component pieces (and people) that make up our personal social system interact, and looking for patterns to predict what will happen next. This post was co-authored with Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia , managing director of 8020world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2018

For example, Charles Babbage’s invention of computational machines powered by punch cards, the foundation of modern computers, was inspired by Babbage’s knowledge of the silk-weaving industry, which used cards with holes to create patterns in the silk fabric.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Sitting behind me at BIF-6 was this nice, unassuming guy. We struck up a conversation. As a result, a wonderful friendship has developed (which is easy to do at BIF). This guy was Michael Lee Stallard. As Michael and I started conversing, the importance of connections to help reframe, reform our world was/is a constant theme.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Leadership & Managing People Book. Robert Steven Kaplan. He called me to get my reaction to what had happened and to ask for suggestions regarding how he should respond to the project manager’s challenge. This post is adapted from the book What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

James Serafino, in facilities management, handled the framing and hanging. And Jared Kaplan, a music buff from the technology department, volunteered to DJ the evening. William Porcelli, in technology, set up the online submission and voting process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Kaplan and Robert Kaiser have done in the pages of HBR, and more recently Tony Schwartz has done on this site, we believe that a single strength by itself doesn't serve anyone well. Strengths in combination are far more powerful than any one alone, our research has confirmed. A leader needs several strengths to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Kaplan and Robert Kaiser have done in the pages of HBR, and more recently Tony Schwartz has done on this site, we believe that a single strength by itself doesn't serve anyone well. Strengths in combination are far more powerful than any one alone, our research has confirmed. A leader needs several strengths to succeed.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. He writes, speaks, and serves on the faculty of management at Oral Roberts University’s College of Business. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

INFOGRAPHIC: 7 Habits of a Highly Ineffective Manager by @mindflash. BloombergTV: Harvard's Kaplan on Leadership Techniques - Video. FRIEDMAN: A Theory of Everything (Sort Of) - The power pyramid is being turned upside down. INFOGRAPHIC: The Evolution of Knowledge Management. Deseret News: The age of entitlement.

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