Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Leading Through Change Pro Tip: The “Diffusion of Innovations” is another time-tested organizational development theory that has been central to my work with teams for decades.

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LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

But look and the most innovative leaders and companies and you’ll see that they continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations. A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. And they do so strategically.

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Innovation Kaplan Banking Early Adopters 119

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

Anything less from its leadership, and a business misses opportunities and risks losing ground in the marketplace. There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. Technology Adept. However, they must be practiced in the use of technology and not harbor any fear of it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”. That’s quite hard for people who have really only had one quiver [sic] in their leadership bow, which is command and control.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Or they are serial product innovators making us “need” things we didn’t know we needed – anyone need another Swiffer with a disposable (and revenue-generating) attachment? With leadership it is about style. It changed.

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Organization Kotter Real Estate Early Adopters 236

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. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most. The corporate designation B-Corp allows a company to blend doing well and doing good in a for-profit structure.

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ROI Business Model Venture Capitalist Early Adopters 132

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change. Changing Behavior Embracing Change Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Explaining Change'

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate Culture Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management'

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Style: what is the leadership style?

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. It really is an innovative UX. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. Thank you for your questions.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. No late fees, as a business model where the renter must replace each returned DVD benefits from tardy returns. ? See what happened there?

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Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Entrepreneur 238

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. 3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business.

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Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s the difference between authority and leadership. The best-known example of the threshold model at work is the diffusion of innovations model developed by Everett Rogers , in which a small group of innovators gets hold of an idea and indoctrinates a somewhat more reluctant group of early adopters to form local majorities.

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Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. When entrepreneurs, innovators, and executives describe the kind of leaders they want to be and/or hire, an unhappy truth invariably emerges: The attributes they so admire often aren’t the behaviors they display.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. As always with technology adoption, there is an S-curve, already being scribbled by early adopters; when the inflection point is reached, expect sudden acceleration.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Get a few early adopters to adopt a behavior, then find and convince the influencers, and then sit back and watch as it goes viral (hopefully). Tweak the situation. Teach and coach well.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. So the best would be to set a higher price first and then get all the early adopters to get in the game. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

To foster a common sense of urgency, every member of our leadership team was provided a copy of John Kotter’s “ Our Iceberg is Melting.” Healthcare institutions began to experiment with lean in the early 2000s, and some emergency departments were among the early adopters. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a result, it's extremely difficult to sell innovation to this consumer. A new product and approach and innovation could dramatically improve the life and income of a billion people, but those people have been conditioned to ignore the very tools that are a reflex of marketers that might sell it to them. So you see the paradox.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

They should avoid one-word overused “no duh” adjectives like “innovation” or “integrity.” To add to the excitement of our initial roll-out, we wanted to keep the momentum going in the early adoption phase by giving employees the optional opportunity to participate in a t-shirt design contest.

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