Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2025

Smith : Absolutely, ESSENTIAL is designed for leaders at every stage, whether theyre just stepping into a management role, aspiring to, or are seasoned executives. Business growth can only occur when people feel seen, heard, and valued--it is the foundation of highly engaged, high-performing teams empowered to drive innovation and progress.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 17, 2023

A rapidly changing work culture takes creative, innovative and adaptable leaders. Leaders must learn to stretch ourselves as the demands upon us continually change. It’s mandatory just to keep up with the pace of change. We are in a life-changing profession. It’s not an option these days.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2020

You have to come up with innovative ideas that actually solve problems facing your target market. Find out what changes they want to see in your industry. Offering an excellent standard of customer service is a smart way to ensure that your company can successfully adapt to the marketplace as it continually changes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Business track records are garnered by going the distance, reading the trends and continually changing. As the years go by, one continues paying dues. The astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's against human nature to react favorably to the disruption of process change. Continuous improvement means continuous change, and change takes people out of their comfort zone. How have you seen people react to changes in their work? Embrace change as an opportunity for learning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We often look at innovation in terms of the new products and technologies that come to market. Perhaps manufacturers will lease you a fridge and charge a low monthly rate for managing your refrigeration needs. The continuing changes in how we consume things is a good deal for us and for our suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

They would have preferred a lower-profile approach that relied on service center managers — not Six Sigma experts — to do the heavy lifting of identifying inefficiencies and making changes. Many executives are attracted to push approaches, especially senior managers who need big results fast. Which camp is right?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

.” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Here are four observations about managing engagement in the digital age. Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. A hundred years ago, managing employee engagement was a much more stable proposition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management. As organizations confront new competitive challenges and disruptive technologies, an agile approach to talent provides both a means of rapid strategic change, as well as a way to increase strategic capability. 1X, 3X or 10X).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. That’s still true.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

However, because of the reluctance of business managers to engage in this process of design, it is more often undertaken by IT professionals themselves, who end up guessing what the business will require. Neither is acceptable in a world dominated by digital innovation, change, and disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. More importantly, they believe in their ability to figure things out and adapt once they get there. Diversity and inclusion.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Matthew T Fritz is a leader and mentor in the field of complex organizational change, emotional intelligence, and organization strategy. He and his wife, Stacy, enjoy life with their daughter and son in California.

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