Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

With my interest in leadership and resilience, I watched with admiration as Jerri called out every employee who was there and the volunteers she knew, acknowledging their services. Build on your strength and core competencies. Others went to work locating office supplies and computers. Empathetic. Here are her lessons.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Digital Leadership. How do companies compete in this digital era ? High, president of the digital business advisory firm Metis Strategy , advises numerous companies and executives on how to compete in the digital era. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. cloud, microservices, APIs, and the like).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Digital technology and AI are meeting an increasing variety of needs and enabling an incredible variety of use cases.”. And this is especially important in a leadership context. This new universality of capability reshapes a variety of operating tasks and reaches into strategy, business design, and even leadership.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 25, 2016

Technology, globalization, economic shifts and geopolitical shocks have set in motion a continuous onslaught of radical, discontinuous change in the global business environment. Fire Prevention at Work Through Leadership. In fact, worldwide economic turmoil will most likely only increase in the future. Related articles.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Used to set priorities around core competencies. Tangible and measurable.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

This step builds confidence by asking teams to identify their core competencies and recent achievements. Opportunities : The team sees potential in leveraging new technology, such as installing IoT sensors to monitor machine conditions like temperature and vibration.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Steinway & Sons spiraled into decline “in large part due to its myopic obsession with craftsmanship at the expense or technological advancement and automation.” In other words, core competencies turned into core rigidities, preventing the firm from responding appropriately to the strategic threat Yamaha posed.”. “It

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 22, 2016

What % of your new business is coming from your core competencies? What % requires capabilities beyond your core? However, success often creates cognitive or psychological leadership blind spots. Crashing into the Leadership Glass Ceiling. However, as your company scales, not all growth is healthy or good.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 19, 2018

Take Dell Technologies, as a great example of a company that hit pause and found its purpose. If they actually had a purpose-focused desire to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, they would have fixed the technology instead of lying about it! Because you won’t know when you’ve arrived if you don’t know your destination.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots. Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Innovators think of a company not in terms of what it is or what it does, but in terms of what it knows —its skills and unique capabilities—and what it owns —such as infrastructure, proprietary technologies, standards, patents, brands, customer data, and so on. Steve Jobs also understood this principle very well. Jeff Bezos gets this, too.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 23, 2015

BOTTOMLINE: The Execution Revolution will be built around communities with the following characteristics: A belief that their ultimate core competence is the ability to execute their strategy. Shared technology (an execution software system) to help integrate planning and. activity alignment at all levels of the organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2014

We have to remember that leadership is not about what you know, but about what you want to discover. In this way, we can demonstrate our drive to not simply be right, but to do right by those we serve through our leadership. What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. I’d be interested in your comments… Share and Enjoy: View Comments Mark Oakes Mike, Good Post!

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. Consider how Walt Disney – or the folks from ESPN – leveraged core competencies and strategic assets to build global entertainment empires.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Just goes to show what great leadership can do! Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line. Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

 Each week I scour the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to pick out five posts that I found particularly insightful and beneficial to your efforts to  Maximize Possibility  in your organization.  Below are my picks for the week of September 13th - 19th, 2010.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Mary Jo Asmus : July 28, 2010 at 8:31 am Kavita, Thanks for the reference.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

We like the “neighborhood” concept—a mix of design, technology, and service within each Adobe office to encourage and support casual collisions, impromptu gatherings and collaboration. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Because of something called hubris, an affliction that seems to lurk around nearly every leadership corner, mixed in with a fear of failure. Now 23 years on from that all-important 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. I made them anyway, and several times to boot.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Liz was not someone considered to have “leadership potential” before John took over the division they worked in. What leadership traits are hiding behind the silence you see? Is it possible that when you open your heart, you may find a germ of kindness in that person that could blossom into empathy and great leadership?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. Link the New to the Old.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart has held a low-price leadership position from its start. Many companies feel a pull to imitate the practices of successful rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.". Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. Products that address poor countries' special needs can't be sold in rich countries because they're not good enough to compete. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Information & technology Leadership Social media' IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. Technology couldn't have been the issue. This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? Could both technologies exist side by side? That’s partly because they had spent much of their lives building up their expertise in analog technology. Internal debate raged.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. But disruption is not always about technology. Confront Unwelcome News and Trends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Defining those crazy zones is one of the most difficult but more important cultural decisions innovation leadership teams can make. IBM, for example, had its "Fellows," who were tasked with assuring the computer giant would never be blindsided by technological surprise. But where should they come from?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? It creates option value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Why did they want to revisit what was already a core competence? You might for example, build the mastery of this core knowledge into the onboarding process for new team members, and have refresher sessions as part of your off sites or leadership meetings.

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