The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For instance, research from Bocconi University suggests that the best way to be creative and innovative is to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. All of that can indeed be true, but we don’t want our organizations to be homogenous.

Decentralization 126

Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 126

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Beta leaders need to be curators, not commanders.

Decentralization 58

Decentralization Idea Generation Content Execution 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

How To 20

How To Creativity Innovation Disruptive Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. They convened the program’s top 75 performers — many still fresh out of business school — for a three-day stint of idea generation and problem solving.

Development 15

Development Participative Conference Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

As I sit to write each morning, I draw upon the vast network of people (many in active chat windows) with whom I've worked in the trenches over the course of a 35-year career, while also having the benefit of opinions and insight by expert strangers a click away. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development.

Silverman 20

Silverman Fashion Real Estate Open-book 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These sorts of questionnaire may be a bit simplistic, but they can help point someone in the right direction on a career or organizational path. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. The builder: leadership as an entrepreneurial activity. These people are focused on the new.

Leadership 15

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 15

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ).

Books 267

Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 267

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Leadership in a Gladiator Culture.

Social Capital 77

Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Melissa Howell talked with The HR Digest about the various Diversity & Inclusion programs which have put Kellogg on the global map as one of the top companies for veterans, LGBT employees, and executive women. People are at the core of this strategy. for seven years.

Diversity 81

Diversity Human Resources Globalization Automotive 81

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Okay, let me see if I understand this…a good coach doesn’t necessarily need any experience, but if they’re a really good listener, can restate what their client tells them, and ask a few good questions, then they can miraculously lead a client to the ah-ha moment that transforms their life and their career.

Blog 385

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 10

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10