The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market.

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Agility Quinn Mintzberg Innovation 52

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2014

What can we learn from these top digital marketers, and how do we engage and influence them? Tami Cannizzaro ( @tamicann ), Vice President, Marketing, IBM. Lorena Hathaway ( @lorenahathaway ), Director, Global Product Management, Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software. How do they engage on social media as humans?

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Brand Influence Quinn Media 346

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

While this source is primarily attributable to the individual, it doesn’t mean the manager doesn’t have a role to play too. It’s important for managers to pay attention and help their employees to “get up to speed.” Conflict, if it’s managed well, can be healthy for the organization. So, don’t be afraid of it.

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Motivation Quinn Stress Uncertainty 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Phil Johnston, an executive search leader at Spencer Stuart, confirms that Quinn’s initial reaction wasn’t unusual: “When a CEO asks a business leader to run HR, the most frequent response is ‘What did I do wrong?’ I push leaders.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. And that answer was new management — Robert Wood — “a man who was capable of introducing a new entrepreneurial concept.” And what was that? Rucci , Steven P.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum. So now the U.S. So now the U.S.

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Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

More generally, we find greater proportions of respondents in emerging markets falling into the leadership camp we would call “modernist.” The pressure is on to make boardrooms and management ranks less “male and pale.”. Will we see a steady convergence in leadership – and toward the Western style – as developing economies mature?

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Creativity Leadership Styles Quinn Globalization 9