Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Kaplan on the dangers of peace: “Avoiding tragedy requires a sense of it, which in turn requires a sense of history. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Kaplan on the connection between past, present, and future: “The greater the disregard of history, the greater he delusions regarding the future. Source: Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. * * *. Source: Thinking with History. The classics help counter … historical amnesia.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] I am so honored to share the screen on Huffington Post Live with Angela Maiers, Saul Kaplan,Robin Chase, Whitney Johnson and Brian Cuban as we discuss Choose2Matter - helping our kids realize how much they have to offer and give to the world.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

In What You''re Really Meant to Do , Robert Kaplan tells the story of a television producer that got passed over for a promotion. You undermine your "ability to exhibit character and leadership traits" that could help your career, says Kaplan. Personal Development' Initially, he took the easy way out.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 30, 2017

Janice Kaplan cried on New Year’s Eve. She snuggled with her husband and watched a movie before the crystal ball dropped in New York City. She didn’t want her year to end. I… Continue reading →

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 26, 2015

A person's conception of leadership matters because it will likely have a strong influence on how he or she processes the writings, leadership coaching , and development practices he or she experiences. That power can work against us, in that it undermines our ability to get to a widely shared understanding of leadership.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

The difference, says Harvard professor Robert Kaplan, is “how they deal with these periods of confusion and uncertainty. Have you developed a clear vision and have you identified three to five clear priorities to achieve that vision? They feel as if they should be somewhere else, doing something else. Managing Your Time.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 19, 2012

Soren Kaplan in Leapfrogging Kaplan offers a “finding your future [.]. Preparation prevents reaction. Prepare for future failures so you won’t end up caught in the snare of fear. One way to combat our fears is to hit them head-on.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2013

I asked the “expert on surprise,” Soren Kaplan, “If you could [.]. Extraordinary leaders realize surprise is a catalyst not an enemy. Reject surprises to your own peril. Surprise energizes innovation.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 1, 2012

The more fearful we are the more pessimistic we grow about the future,” Soren Kaplan, author of, Leapfrogging: Harnessing the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. [.]. I’m a huge fan of “just go do something,” but a world filled with options and uncertainty paralyzes. When fear prevents the next step, pessimism prevails.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. We are all a work-in-progress.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 15, 2012

Soren Kaplan thought he knew about giant leaps forward until [.]. Leaders rise up during uncertainty and press through ambiguity; they embrace surprises. The surprising truth is surprises represent the path to breakthroughs.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead. In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

It’s a simple tool ( download PDF or download PowerPoint ) for defining the following dimensions of an organization’s innovation culture: Leadership – How leaders influence innovation through explicit decisions and subtle behaviors. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies. KEY Creativity Climate (Harvard).

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. Hewitt loved to quote “past stories of conservative wisdom and leadership to fellow workers as a means of. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. “In

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership. Leadership used to be all about purpose, vision, mission, motivation and communication. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas Published by Michael Lee Stallard on September 15, 2010 06:16 pm under connection culture Life is good! why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

Here's a guest post by Paul Thornton, a Great Leadership regular: To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care. The best gardeners learn through experience and reflection what flowers need to grow and develop. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Developing Versatile Leaders.”

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 1, 2012

The more fearful we are the more pessimistic we grow about the future,” Soren Kaplan, author of, Leapfrogging: Harnessing the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. [.]. I’m a huge fan of “just go do something,” but a world filled with options and uncertainty paralyzes. When fear prevents the next step, pessimism prevails.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Time to Assess How Your Team Uses Time We often work with leadership teams on their use of individual and collective time.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2013

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Build Relationships with People Who Are Different – Leaders who do not get out of their comfort zones limit their own development. Sameness begets sameness.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Kaplan and Norton point out that customer satisfaction, internal business processes, learning, and revenue growth are important drivers of long-term performance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Surprise is the enemy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

For the past decade, leaders have been encouraged to focus on developing their strengths rather than always gravitating to working on a weakness. It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA shows readers how to develop these core skills and use them in combination to generate new ideas. By Robert Kaplan. By Dick Grote.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

For the past decade, leaders have been encouraged to focus on developing their strengths rather than always gravitating to working on a weakness. It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

” Robert Kaplan, author of What You’re Really Meant to Do , states that “numerous studies of highly effective people point to a strong correlation between believing in the mission, enjoying the job, and performing at a high level.” Developing others toward their passions requires a mindset shift.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

While his intentions were admirable at first glance, his leadership style was ultimately hurting his team, his investors, and himself. Though Christine’s leadership team are all individually strong performers, they had become ineffective and burned out from chasing too many changing priorities.

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