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.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Osborne Development Tacit Knowledge Kaizen 96

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.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Leaders will learn what they need to know, when they need to know it, from the source best able to teach it. The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. Tomorrow’s leaders will learn in new ways. by Marshall Goldsmith. This seldom works.

360-Degree Feedback 121

360-Degree Feedback Long-term Globalization Tools 121

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Learn to expect, predict, understand and relish success. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Learning Organizations Are More Successful.

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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.

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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.

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Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8