Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Here is a simple explanation of it. How many new customers churn after just a few months?

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

So far in our Career Advice series we’ve touched on looking for intersections in your work , and how it can fuel innovation, the strength that comes with asking for help and why work is personal. I hope you’ve found some insights that have resonated with you so far.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. We are committed to designing smart marketing strategies – not the flashiest or most complex.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Market your genius. When you are living and working at the intersection of all your assets, you’re marketing your genius on all frequencies. Working for joy, innovation and autonomy is. You’ll even create a mantra to help hold you accountable to your daily genius life. Sustaining real smarts takes discipline and commitment.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Start with Why by Simon Sinek. The most interesting marketing book I read this year. One particular idea in this book – about “switch&# tasking – seems to come up in every workshop I lead. Here is my original recommendation. As an author I was (and am) envious of this title. The book does the title justice.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

One of the best bolt-on tools at the core level is Simon Sinek’s Start with Why. competitive advantage, value proposition, and market position) and drill down to function-level strategy (e.g., marketing, sales, product development, and innovation). Sinek goes deep into defining a purpose. Don’t get overwhelmed by them.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Simon Clark Partner at IBM iX Simon Clark shares how the ChMC award elevated his credibility and professional development as a digital technology consultant. Simon Clark is a partner with IBM Consulting responsible for digital and analytics across consulting, process, innovation and project delivery.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 18, 2023

Research from Simon Fraser University highlights how better support is desperately needed for this vulnerable group. The research builds on a pilot study that examined the impact of interventions targeted at people over 50 in a number of Canadian cities that have experienced a significant rise in homelessness among older people.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bounded rationality The notion of bounded rationality, initially introduced by Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, highlights the inherent limitations individuals face when endeavoring to make rational choices, stemming from their constrained access to certain knowledge or their capacity to comprehend that information.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 31, 2011

The team was allowed to help recruit the team (John 1:41, 45) – Andrew found Simon…Philip found Nathanael. I love the leadership principles of Jesus. You need individuals who know how to do what needs to be done, who have learned how to follow, can be influencers to the rest of the team, and who have proven their loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions. Always take credit for the work your team did.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simon Tyler ( Speaker, Coach, & Author ) Authenticity - knowing who you are, what is important to you, what you stand for and being comfortable in all of that. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Stay human.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! Catch up here.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Finding one’s passion. Working together with others. Honoring our elders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Since reading that I've often pondered the subject and today, I find it helpful to look at my experience of how good designers think (and do) at each stage of the innovation process: insights, inspiration, and action. Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Transformers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

If your goal is rising head and shoulders above this twisting mass of mediocrity, then it's not enough, anymore, to tack on another 99 features every month and call it "innovation." The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament." Leapfrogging your customers means creating new markets, not just new products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

At the 2010 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum in New Delhi we facilitated a workshop entitled "Innovating More with Less for More" where C-level execs shared best practices which their companies have adopted to enable inclusive growth in India.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication. The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. It’s nearly impossible to capture all those traits — every organization will have a different set of norms and customs. But there are at least a few essential leadership traits that we find common in many firms today.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The companies that occupy the limelight are typically diversified giants that achieve growth through constant expansion into new markets and the introduction of additional product lines (just think P&G, GE, and Microsoft). Quick test: name one company that does one thing and does it very well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Family firms aren’t typically thought of as particularly innovative. However, many family-owned businesses are among the most innovative in their industries. There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. The level of innovation is higher in family firms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Sucher and Shalene Gupta (PublicAffairs 2021) Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. There's a better way. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? My former colleagues Sumantra Ghoshal and Peter Moran wrote a landmark paper arguing that, unlike markets, firms deliberately take resources away from their short-term best use, in order to give themselves the chance to create even more value over the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. Currently, Geologists like Jan Grygar are using drones to take high-definition photographs, while Simon Jardine and his business, Eye In The Sky, are using drones to sell aerial photography.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with—but it’s nothing new as a concept. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. Andy O’Connell Maybe Not Does Innovation Always Lead to Gentrification? Pacific Standard Every struggling city hopes to grow an “innovation district” that will populate its old brick warehouses with teams of brainy entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The form that technological progress will take is, by definition, impossible to predict, but nothing seems to suggest that we are likely to enter an era of pro-unskilled labor innovations. But nothing suggests that similar innovations are around the corner to help U.S. workers without a college degree.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Here is where you can gain a great competitive edge that is sustainable and also leads to more innovative and effective ways of getting things done. The status quo and old ways of thinking are the enemy of higher order processing, innovation and increased performance. See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.)

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