The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

System 52

System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process. Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets.

IAS 59

IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Running the business.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Technology is making some of that effort easier. The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. Yozma in Israel, and Sitra and Tekes in Finland have actively shaped and created markets.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8