LDRLB

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Dependence limits innovative thinking. And earlier this year, New York’s Mayor Bloomberg doled out awards specifically recognizing the city’s most innovative nonprofits. But here’s the challenge: most nonprofit innovations come from socially minded start-ups that invented themselves from scratch. Most of the 1.5 million do?

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas Published by Michael Lee Stallard on September 15, 2010 06:16 pm under connection culture Life is good! why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Innovation. Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan. Leapfrogging is a powerful book in how surprise powers innovative breakthroughs. It’s not enough just to think about the innovations your own organization is pursuing. We’re biased. Soren is a LDRLB contributor but that shouldn’t disqualify him from making our list.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. In contrast, the most innovative leaders and companies continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle?

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LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

In contrast, the most innovative leaders and companies continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations. Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 29, 2012

Why is predictability and control the unquestioned holy grail of management? Every management book on Amazon with the word “surprise” in its title is about how to prevent the phenomenon. But could we be overlooking an essential and critical ingredient of breakthrough leadership and innovation?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

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LDRLB

JULY 19, 2012

To celebrate the upcoming launch of LDRLB contributor Soren Kaplan’s new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs , we’ve arranged for a free webinar for the LDRLB community. Leading Disruptive Innovation. Description: Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the norm.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 25, 2012

That's why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. Businesses hate uncertainty. New Mindsets are the Missing Link.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. We need to make our interactions count. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 452

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. Kaplan and David P. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Examine Your Talent Acquisitions and Talent Management Systems – Reduce unintended bias in formal systems and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. Rural innovation. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2013

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Examine Your Talent Acquisitions and Talent Management Systems – Reduce unintended bias in formal systems and processes.

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Diversity Kaplan Self-aware Long-term 55

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? This surprise led to a big shift for OpenTable: In addition to restaurant reservations, the company developed a “guest management” platform to also capture and provide detailed data on the restaurants’ diners themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Robert Kaplan. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 23, 2011

Can you force innovation? Measuring performance of the MD through hard, soft, personal and strategic measurements and bring all these measurements together in a coherent manner. Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness To what extent does your organisation value Authentic Leadership? Revised Checklist to help you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Kaplan and Robert Kaiser have done in the pages of HBR, and more recently Tony Schwartz has done on this site, we believe that a single strength by itself doesn't serve anyone well. Kaplan and Kaiser similarly described how either "forceful" or "enabling" behaviors could be taken too far and have negative consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 23, 2011

Can you force innovation? Measuring performance of the MD through hard, soft, personal and strategic measurements and bring all these measurements together in a coherent manner. Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness To what extent does your organisation value Authentic Leadership? Revised Checklist to help you.

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Long-term Succession Content Innovation 49

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Kaplan and Michael E. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Kaplan and Robert Kaiser have done in the pages of HBR, and more recently Tony Schwartz has done on this site, we believe that a single strength by itself doesn't serve anyone well. Kaplan and Kaiser similarly described how either "forceful" or "enabling" behaviors could be taken too far and have negative consequences.

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Kaplan Definition Drucker Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

By the time online games exploded onto the scene, I was so immersed in reality that I managed to ignore them. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). Games ruled — till it was time to make my way in the real world where they didn't. Follow him on Twitter at @skap5.

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Kaplan Health Care Incentives Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2018

After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. For example, researchers Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili found that recombining ideas from one domain of specialization, as opposed to multiple domains, led to more novel innovations in the area of nanotubes.

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