The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 9, 2023

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

And if those dominant companies fail to adopt new technology or improved business models, and continue to pursue strategies that perpetuate what has historically helped them succeed, they may find their once profitable business declining. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Millennials make up the most of the full-time workforce with nearly 50 million workers, followed by Gen X at just over 40 million, and both Baby Boomers and Gen Z at just over 17 million. They came of age during the early technological revolution, making them adept at using email and other digital tools.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Embarking on your own AI journey While your goal is to be innovative, relevant, competitive, and forward-looking, your approach should be to bend but not break your team and your operations. Learn more at solrashidi.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Lead from Within

APRIL 24, 2024

This responsibility takes on a new dimension with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a catalyst poised to usher in the next wave of transformative technology. By doing so, you’ll free up valuable human resources to focus on strategic, high-impact activities. Innovate by integrating AI into your core offerings.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 19, 2017

How Can Leaders’ Best Explore and Exploit both Disruptive and Incremental Approaches to Innovation? These players test more established racers with breakthrough innovations. Yet such a rapid and competitive approach to innovation may not be sustainable over the long term. So how can you successfully navigate the innovation race?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Today’s examples of workplace conflict can best be described as a complex cocktail of challenges: tired workers in an uncertain economy; a pandemic hangover of isolation and anxiety; rapid social and technological change; and exhausted managers doing the best they can– many of whom lack the training and resources to navigate this well.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Whether addressing needs like innovative fundraising strategies, enhancing academic programs, boosting student success, or adapting to new technologies, a fresh perspective and strategic vision can breathe new life into an institution. Recognizing when it’s time for a leadership change can be a key driver for this process.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. They end up focusing on themselves instead of the people and organization they are leading.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

How to Ignite Innovation. Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity. Everyone is Innovative . so read on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Are we following processes? Even with expenses that the company incurred to set people up at home (buildout, technology), the company saw a positive ROI. 26:04 Karin: How do you calcuate ROI when it comes to innovation? . The more engaged, the more innovation. 6:27 Application: is it working?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Organizations often voice lofty ideals as a part of their branding efforts, but tangible progress comes when concrete measures are followed. This nurtures overall employee engagement and paves the way for innovation, creativity, and shared vision toward company goals. Organizational culture starts with leaders who lead by example.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

He led one of the most innovative and rapidly growing tech companies in the world. The explanation for his termination was vague and 95% of the company’s employees threatened to follow their CEO. That action could include everything up to and including terminating leaders who support such behaviors. What’s Next?

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 10, 2023

Reclaiming Your Time: Strategies for Busy Managers As a manager, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the workday, from leading team meetings and managing projects to resolving conflicts and making crucial decisions. Why Self-Development is Critical Your team looks up to you for guidance, inspiration, and mentorship.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 25, 2013

Unprecedented competition, higher expectations, accelerating technology, changing preferences and time pressures are all converging to create a challenging landscape. Successful nonprofits will embrace the following three approaches to succeed: 1. The technology imperative. Strategy doesn’t just happen.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 25, 2024

Teams that function cohesively and autonomously are more likely to innovate, solve problems efficiently, and maintain high levels of morale. For example, set up bi-weekly meetings to review progress and discuss any challenges. Effective delegation frees up your time to focus on strategic initiatives and mentoring.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The hero of the story, Ren, is fired up with ambition and has a strategic dream in place to build his own startup from the ground up, but he has a lot to learn about how this particular sector of the business world works. Leading in a Non-Linear World : Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future by Jean Gomes.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

They deal with anxiety and health issues that weigh heavily, financial and personal matters that keep them up at night, and a host of other problems that make their day more stressful than needed. ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer. It’s not that difficult to do.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In this exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Franklin dives into her unique talent management strategies, and how they’re propelling Moderna to the forefront of medical innovation. Our workforce is 49 percent female, and women make up 39% of our executives. Franklin joins Moderna following 15 years at Merck & Co.,

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. It was innovative and seemingly crazy. Many thought it could never work.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Central to the emergence of these business model innovations is a willingness on the part of the innovator to challenge the existing norms and regulations of the market they are entering,” the authors explain. Both Uber and 23andMe later resumed operations with revised business models.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Every year, millions of workers lose their jobs due to technological advancements, international competition, offshoring, and regulatory changes. However, these measures often fall short of fully addressing the needs of displaced workers, especially as emerging technologies like AI and decarbonization continue to disrupt labor markets.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2023

Experts predict that AI will create new leadership roles and moreover, require leaders to adapt to new technologies. This approach can improve communication, enable agility, and foster innovation. Additionally, it can help organizations tap into more talent and foster collaboration and innovation. The Leadership Gap.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2023

With so much at stake, it’s crucial for developers to keep their fingers on the pulse of the industry, continually adapt to changing market conditions, and find innovative ways to differentiate themselves from the rest. So, they need to follow the proactive and innovative approach discussed in this article.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev has devoted two decades to studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 27, 2024

Therefore, they must do the following: Embrace Digital Proficiency: Gen Z grew up in a digital world, making them exceptionally tech-savvy. Embrace technology, leverage digital platforms for communication, and be open to innovative tools and solutions.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. Indra Nooyi. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Innovative models, digitalization, technologies—these are all important. So, there is a need to examine ourselves to see where our behaviors don’t line up with what we say we believe. But what matters more is how leaders lead other people.” Collaboration means listening well, understanding motivations, and depersonalizing ideas.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner. With TRY Courage, the courage of first attempts, the underlying risk is that your actions end up in?icting ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer. ” Follow them on Twitter at @letsgrowleaders.

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