Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Managers Can Change That. Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. But once this is understood, innovation can become a personal leadership skill as well as a corporate one. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There was a particular focus given to the signaling of human capital, which is concerned with their competence and ability to do tasks well, and also their social capital, which concerns itself with things like one’s trustworthiness and friendliness.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 15, 2010

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." Source: Wayne E. Related articles.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This situation was nicely captured by recent research from the University of Manchester, which found that around half of Londoners would prefer to be self-employed than they would salaried employees, less than one in six actually manage this goal. This social capital helps potential entrepreneurs access vital resources and information.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2021

It was a time in which there was a lot of innovation around new educational opportunities, but early evidence showed that most consumers of these opportunities were those already well placed to cope with the changes being seen across society. Social capital. Leveling the playing field.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. ” Learning to be an entrepreneur.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2024

The great risk of the hybrid age is “ disengagement and diminished collaborative intent leading to declining social capital… denuding firms of the very energy and vitality we know creates innovation and ultimately advantage for the firm.” But as with any seismic change, it hasn’t taken long for the downsides to emerge.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2023

While overall this is a bad situation, it can be beneficial for individual employees as it can help them to develop the kind of social capital that is so important to advance their careers. “This flexibility in employee career development may not be a bad thing for managers if we think about the flow of talent between firms.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

In the last half-century, the pace of change and the many innovations that have reorganized our behavior in no way compare with the unanticipated situation we now face from the coronavirus pandemic. We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval.

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Steve Farber

MAY 15, 2015

We’ve been exploring the convergence of three essential qualities: Human Capital–individuals’ attributes, talents, capacities, and contribution. Social Capital–the strength, connection, and relationships between those individuals. What to Do About It. To be perfectly clear, this hour is on us!

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A hundred years ago, the Wright brothers could build an airplane all by themselves," says Ben Jones, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, at Northwestern University. And they have to collaborate, because the most interesting mysteries lie at the intersection of disciplines. "A

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

We often find ourselves engaged with members of large organizations on questions of how to be more innovative and entrepreneurial. We have come to call these kinds of managers “entrepreneurs inside” because though they work within an established organizational context, like entrepreneurs, they have ideas that upset the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I spend a significant amount of my time associating with a pro-business think tank that has been building an impressive database of entrepreneurs, small businesses, start-ups, and innovation-driven enterprises in Africa. Then there's the tendency toward what I initially saw as excess diversification. These conclusions were hasty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

What's not funny is the result: stifled collaboration, reduced innovation and limited growth. But this diminishes your team's social capital. The commercial is funny because it reveals an all-too-common dynamic in team meetings: misallocation of credit (or blame). Most leaders know not to act like the boss in the FedEx ad.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." Socialize your underused assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Yes, young and ambitious people with bright eyes and open hearts need to learn to accept the cold shoulder of established industry gatekeepers, even when it seems like the only goal of the latter is to prevent new ideas and innovation bubbling to the surface of their tired companies and low-growth industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." By this time, the innovation is taking off. And sometimes we are. Or, "FourSquare?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Over the past three decades at IDEO, I’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies in the world and seen a lot of creative leaders in action. The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Innovation Book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. How will companies manage longer lives and postponed retirements? of all new businesses in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network. Employees with a high betweenness (e.g., damage control).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Those employees work at two of Britain’s most-admired retailers, John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, each of which has carved out a powerful bond with customers, both of which have unveiled big innovations in terms of branding, merchandising, and e-commerce. Our focus is on social capital.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2024

Not many startups backed by venture capital relocate to a different country, but the ones that do tend to reap financial rewards, as per recent research from Cornell. Startups making an international move secured an average funding of $60 million, while those staying put managed $20 million.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Researchers from the University of Torontos Rotman School of Management tested several machine learning models, including deep learning, to predict which campaigns would hit their fundraising goals. Social capital (like the number of comments), the number of reward options, and the campaigns length were also important.

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