Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. Maybe we need to have the courage to live our truth regardless of what the outcome is, but when it comes to threatening one’s livelihood, the situation requires more innovative measures, as you did.

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Making innovation happen inside established organizations is just darned tough work. That's because there are deep and fundamental conflicts between innovation and day-to-day operations—and established organizations are built more for the latter than the former. but it is also highly toxic. but it is also highly toxic.

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Innovation Proposal Article Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Courage is the capacity to do the right thing, while being aware of the personal and wider risks. Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

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Metrics Education Software Tools 13

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Doing less better’ doesn’t mean doing less work.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58