Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Typically most managers do not realize there are different styles even though they divide 50/50 in the populations worldwide. You contribute by organizing the new projects and developing efficient systems that ensure the work or product is completed with precision and accuracy. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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Innovation Contingency Plans Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 246

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Research from Bocconi University suggests that the best approach might be to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. The researchers found that these people are most likely to focus on the idea and provide criticism in a more constructive manner.

Development 78

Development Idea Generation Creativity Construction 78

Management Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

There's little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world.

Creativity 98

Creativity Idea Generation Team Innovation 98

Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

You have developed a quick form or documented process to capture what is working to increase and what is not working to decrease while the work of your team(s) is getting done. As you check-in with your management, you are reflecting the priorities to them.

Construction 180

Construction Public Relations Idea Generation Document 180

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2013

Yet, in spite of the fact that being forward-looking is the quality that most separates leaders from individual contributors, it’s something that too few fully appreciate, and too many devote almost no time to developing. Middle level managers often need to look three to five years into the future.

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Long-term Quality Trends Follow-up 219

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2021

What’s more, if these employees are recognized for their efforts and encouraged to develop their skills then their innovative output rises yet further. “What this study reveals is that innovation is found not just by using technology specifically created to support idea-generation,” the researchers say.

Creativity 98

Creativity Idea Generation Technology Information Technology 98

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Big organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches—a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 267

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 21, 2024

New research from ESMT Berlin has found that people judge the potential of an idea differently depending on how developed it is. In the early stages, they tend to focus on the reputation of the person behind the idea and how well it’s presented, even though these factors don’t predict success.

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Innovation Reputation Maturity Idea Generation 117

Management Excellence

MARCH 9, 2011

Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. In this 3rd Part of an on-going series, we tackle the issue of properly framing issues to improve idea generation and decision development.

Management 63

Management Idea Generation Succession How To 63

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Here are four techniques that will help open the lines of communication with team members, and across your organization, to encourage valuable idea generation and information sharing: 1. At best, this approach can be confusing, leaving your employee focused only on the positives and missing the areas to be developed altogether.

Competitive Advantage 120

Competitive Advantage Open-book CEO Idea Generation 120

Lead from Within

JULY 4, 2023

Poor listening skills are one of the main causes of poor communication in leadership, and it can have negative impacts on teamwork, idea generation and trust. Most people believe they are good listeners, but the reality is that many of us struggle with effective listening.

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Skills Tips Teamwork Leadership 179

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Diversity Team Bond Education 130

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue. And that's not all.

Skills 104

Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2012

I read an interesting article last week that started me thinking about the messages we send out to our children concerning what it is to be a manager. The Article, written by Hal Gregersen for Businessweek.com is entitled, “ What Do Managers Do at Work? . When asked, “ What do Managers do at work ?” Why is it important?

Leadership 76

Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 76

You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 27, 2014

Recently, I read an interesting article that started me thinking about the messages we send out to our children concerning what it is to be a manager. The Article, written by Hal Gregersen for Businessweek.com is entitled, “What Do Managers Do at Work? When asked, “What do Managers do at work?” Why is it important?

Leadership 75

Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 75

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. The current steps for vetting ideas will gain new criteria for selecting ideas that will be developed. At an individual level, employees need to become comfortable sharing wild ideas.

Wilde 95

Wilde Idea Generation Morale Process 95

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 126

Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says.

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Team White Paper Business Objectives Long-term 90

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research from the University of Illinois portrayed interruptions in a slightly more positive light, as when we’re interrupted, we also get to interact with the person doing the interrupting, which helps us to develop crucial social ties.

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Supply Chain Incubator Creativity Objective 114

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.

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Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

Let’s start with my experience: We decided to follow agile principles in our quest to implement an autonomous ‘idea generation’ process to fight boredom and channelize extraneous energy. Perhaps, I forgot to mention that the project was about managing bored kids tired of quarantine tedium!

Innovation 62

Innovation Six Sigma Agility Benchmarking 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Retain a firm handle on your overheads.

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Long-term Brainstorming 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? How well can management interpret and apply findings to the decision process? How do you handle crisis management and preparedness? Supply chain management should be implemented.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

Decentralization 58

Decentralization Idea Generation Content Execution 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Reduce management’s risk in doing business with you.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Having regularly scheduled talks with every employee at work can help build rapport with them and make them more likely to open up to their managers and HR. These conversations can also allow management to become better at picking up on cues when something is wrong, guiding them to ask the right questions every time.

Groupthink 52

Groupthink Janis How To Training 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. Why these programs work.

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Development Participative Conference Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me.

Management 14

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 14

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 18, 2016

Manuel Kaiser interview Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph about his new book, and how innovative firms generate new ideas and develop successful business models. Continue reading →

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Books Review Business Model Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.

Creativity 15

Creativity How To System Motivation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

These stats, from a recent survey by Globoforce and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), show that HR has lost confidence in the traditional review process. It's an industry awakening to a system that is no longer effective on its own for the way companies and people are managed today.

Performance Review 18

Performance Review Review Human Resources Reputation 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. He codified the basic rules that many of us follow when getting people together to generate ideas: Toss out as many ideas as possible. Dr. Tony McCaffrey outlines a new way to generate ideas.

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Brainstorming Osborne Team Creativity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

Our finding about scarcity, however, gets even gets more interesting when its implication is spelled out: that innovation managers will more often create businesses, services, or products that are successful in the marketplace when they intentionally impose constraints during the development process.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

Management 9

Management How To Open-book Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

And the 'we' part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas.". Although the HMW process has been used at IDEO for a number of years, its origins can be traced back to Basadur and his early days as a creative manager at Procter & Gamble. It's not taught in MBA programs."

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Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 22