Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Developing your Lookout skills over time will create the lasting change you want, in your leadership and in your life.”. Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 7, 2011

Online attendees will be able to see my presentation as well as those of consultant and author Gary Hamel, Liane Hornsey of Google, Dr. John Fleming of Gallup, author Dan Pink, Vineet Nayar CEO of HCL Technologies and Suzanne Gordon of SAS Institute.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

A client in need of innovation? And sure enough, bright folks such as Gary Hamel, C. I scribed notes of my favorite articles and had my secretary type them. Years later I referred to these notes in my capacity as a consultant. Yep, I can help with that,” I’d say. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 14, 2022

This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. She wants to encourage innovation but wonders why her employees are not trying anything new. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing. And the employees don’t understand why they can’t attempt something new.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. Below you’ll find who we feel are the 2013 top 50 professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy, as well as five at-large professors. Leadership. Innovation.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. Below you’ll find who we feel are the top professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy. Leadership. Innovation. Gary Hamel. Bill George. Bill_George.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. Thanks for encouraging and challenging the leadership community.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not need – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. Kodak knew film.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

In their latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel and his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini, outline seven steps leaders can take to better respond to crises such as this one. For decades, a sort of hero leadership ethos has prevailed, in which the leader must have all the answers to every problem.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. Canada border crossing.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, " Inventing Management 2.0 ", Professor Gary Hamel talks about leadership development, change, and offers his insights as to what needs to change, in order to progress to Management 2.0. Management 1.0 was built to encourage reliability, predictability, discipline, alignment and control.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 14, 2011

Even the staid British publication The Economist recently claimed, “Innovation is now recognized as the single most important ingredient in any modern economy.” (Tom Kelley: The Ten Faces of Innovation) —— For the SMU Cox School of Business – Business Leadership Center, I recently presented my new session on innovation: Adaptation, (..)

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Management Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2011

This “management innovation” as Dr. Gary Hamel describes it, is much about the search for approaches to organizing, planning, leading and controlling that better fit the challenges of the 21st century. The implication is that in many cases, we’re still trying to solve new and emerging problems with 20th century management tools.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

It starts with all the things that are bad in leadership - greed, myopia, denial, deceit, hubris etc. Section 2 is all about innovation. He sees innovation as hope and a cure for all the nasty he noted in the first section. It supported many of my views on leadership. It challenged me to think. It is well written.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not needed – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2012

Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.]. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. •

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2015

A little over five years ago I created an evolution of a Gary Hamel framework from The Future of Management that I titled The Innovator's Framework and included in my popular first book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. Continue reading →

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As Gary Hamel wrote in Leading The Revolution : “Everyday, companies get blindsided by the future–yet the future never arrives as a surprise to everyone in the organization. Technorati Tags: Gary Hamel , innovation , leadership , problem solving , strategy , Wake Up Pad.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2011

The training firm Development Dimensions International (DDI) has just released their Global Leadership Forecast 2011. The forecast conclusions are very useful for HR and executives concerned with developing leadership skills across their organization. Fostering creativity and innovation. Identifying and developing future talent.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I think this is a book whose time has come because I think we are at this standpoint, especially in the over hype on leadership that we neglect its counterpart, and both are necessary, and that’s management. Leadership is a process of social influence. Leadership is about the traits or behaviors we exhibit that of course define us.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2012

By definition most of us are average. Even though: 68% of the faculty at the University of Nebraska rate themselves in the top 25% of teaching ability. 90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student. 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top 50% of driving ability. 92% of teachers say [.].

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As Gary Hamel wrote in Leading The Revolution : “Everyday, companies get blindsided by the future–yet the future never arrives as a surprise to everyone in the organization. And when the ideas start flying, you capture them and start trying things. Someone somewhere was paying attention.&#.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I could imagine it and it brought to mind what Gary Hamel said in his book, Leading the Revolution : “Every day, companies get blindsided by the future—yet the future never arrives as a surprise to everyone in the organization. That would be a whole company of CIOs. A company that is entirely awake to what’s happening outside its walls.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2012

By definition most of us are average. Even though: 68% of the faculty at the University of Nebraska rate themselves in the top 25% of teaching ability. 90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student. 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top 50% of driving ability. 92% of teachers say [.].

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I have a lot of faith in the Millennials' imagination, based partly on my experience at HCL, in the area of technology innovation. My confidence in Gen Y — as well as my faith in bottom-up innovation — has been reinforced over the past month as I perused the entries submitted to the HCL MBA M-Prize.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Why does a statement like this produce breakthrough innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

I recently attended the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) Mashup and I was pleasantly surprised to hear themes of love, trust, and candor being brought up as hot management priorities, and a demonstration of the willingness to break traditional leadership boundaries. This approach is surprisingly successful in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. Yet, it has been our experience that when facing new situations, the best managers create leadership circles, or groups of peers from across the firm, to gain more perspective about problems and solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In his recent HBR article Gary Hamel described traditional-enterprise ailments as being inertial, incremental, and insipid. Until now managing’s design, innovation, and transformation has not been effectively carried out because no framework made sense of it. They collectively address leadership, management, and governance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In his recent HBR article Gary Hamel described traditional-enterprise ailments as being inertial, incremental, and insipid. Until now managing’s design, innovation, and transformation has not been effectively carried out because no framework made sense of it. They collectively address leadership, management, and governance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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