Fast Follower Leadership Operations 
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation. Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. The best companies don’t play catch-up – they leap-frog.
Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 4, 2014
What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. In my experience, most companies are risk-averse and like to fashion themselves as great “fast followers.” That’s exactly right.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Many social enterprises start small and grow fast. Yet planning for future leadership needs falls between the cracks at most social enterprises. But it's critically important if yours is a fast-growing organization. In fact, research by the Center for Creative Leadership has shown that leadership is best learned on the job.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2014
Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. What type of leadership and culture are required to achieve the value proposition?
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