Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a Method , that is particularly instructive. It is how successful leaders in business, in all walks of life, in fact, operate: by keeping their eyes on today and on the vision— always moving forward. This is a powerful book. Honest, straightforward, and insightful.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. DTC Operator. Generally, DTC Operator is set up for more technical problems. Try it out.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. An explanation comes in the form of a paper from Northwestern’s Mark Buchanan, in which he highlights what is known as recombinative innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system. Gordon: We don’t write job descriptions. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For rhyming purposes and historical recall, it would be nice if it were the year 1964 when Gordon Moore discovered what came to be known as Moore’s Law. Generally, technological innovations pay for themselves through increased capability or competitive viability. But it was 1965, and the rhyme is kaput. Covering All Your Bases.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

There’s lots to be said for naming an innovation. Clearly communicating customer value and benefits matters enormously; what matters more is the ability to design and implement innovation as a verb. Features and functionality have largely become legacy vocabulary for innovation. They’re necessary but not sufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the large organizations in which we work are often inflexible and incapable of adaptation and true innovation. As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Dr. Gordon Moore of Rochester, New York traveled a parallel path. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Gordon Ross, a lead tester on the Grand Theft Auto game, reportedly characterized it as “madness.” Also out of reach: a €500 million network of digital innovation hubs and the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative (a €2.8 Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. billion R&D fund ).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation provided partial funding for the research. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. But we had to focus because the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the project, wanted to ensure that we demonstrated results. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms. Generally speaking, they don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. “But more engineers is a good thing.

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