Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team. Ask those you trust what books have inspired them, and dig in.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

The best gardeners learn through experience and reflection what flowers need to grow and develop. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Developing Versatile Leaders.” MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Thornton is the author of numerous articles and 13 books on management and leadership. and Kaiser, R.B.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Driving into the sunrise on this sunny, clear day with a hint of Fall in the air was simply stunning. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At Captain Fantastic’s poor ego management results in behavior that is a combination of defensiveness, arrogance, lack of composure, being distrustful, being mischievous and colorful, and being passive. W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish?

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That''s why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

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. That’s your spot of safety, where your internal risk manager allows you to play.” H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 4, 2011

Many corporate managers have been introduced to a corporate management system called the Balanced Scorecard. Thus, as a manager or business leader, if the system has not yet been encountered, it most likely will be in the near future. Indicative of the system's growth, many of these implementations are less than six months old.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, youand what makes your team and organization unique, says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. Transform organizational culture.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2023

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the new book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. Enhance personal growth.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. The following is a guest piece by Joel Peterson, Chairman of JetBlue, with David A. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances.

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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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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

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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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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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. We offer: Expert individual communication coaching for professional development or critical public events. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Perhaps you want to impart information – at a senior management briefing or a staff training session, for example.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

As a result, a wonderful friendship has developed (which is easy to do at BIF). Sitting behind me at BIF-6 was this nice, unassuming guy. We struck up a conversation. This guy was Michael Lee Stallard. As Michael and I started conversing, the importance of connections to help reframe, reform our world was/is a constant theme.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. But for other leaders, it’s about face time.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Tom Johnson, an economist and self-described “recovering management accountant,” is well known for his early contributions to the traditional accounting profession. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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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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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

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

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 23, 2011

Measuring performance of the MD through hard, soft, personal and strategic measurements and bring all these measurements together in a coherent manner. Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness To what extent does your organisation value Authentic Leadership? Can you force innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

They deliver growth and development opportunities that increase people's skills and enhance their value in the marketplace — a big win for both the organization and the individual. I haven't been climbing the corporate ladder; I've been traversing what my colleague Cathy Benko has dubbed the "corporate lattice." So how about you?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The idea that organizations ought to focus on developing the strengths of their employees rather than trying to help them fix their weaknesses was introduced and popularized by the consulting firm Gallup. Kaplan and Robert Kaiser demonstrated so persuasively in an HBR article several years ago.

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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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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 The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974.

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