Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial.

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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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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. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2018

We’ve sped up technology and innovation but remain trapped in models, processes and working norms that were built in the early twentieth century. We lose track of our higher purpose (our ‘why’ as Simon Sinek would say) and forget about the impact we can make on those around us. No wonder we lose sight of our ‘why’.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2024

A team of scientists from different countries, including some from the University of Cambridge, has started working together to create a new tool that uses the same technology as ChatGPT. This tool will use artificial intelligence to help scientists with their research. AI can help by gathering information from many disciplines.”

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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Skip Prichard

MAY 3, 2021

Simon Sweeney. Our intention with utilizing this emerging technology is to create a new immersive reading and learning experience in support of the content in the book and to utilize it as a new audio/visual communication tool for global audiences. More details about the book and its unique AR feature can be found here.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2021

Most of us grew up with two basic stories about how top performers like Simone Biles, Jerry Seinfeld, and Steve Jobs achieve at the highest levels. Jobs thought Gates stole Apple technology to create Windows. Once upon a time, staying on top of new innovations and professional trends was for go-getters.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 19, 2022

We hope these reports will open your mind to innovative development strategies, just like the books listed below. “Leaders Eat Last” by Simon Sinek. In this riveting read, Simon Sinek looks to the great leaders who constantly sacrifice their own desires for the benefit of the larger group.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow the seeds of creativity.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ).

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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. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Glen Robinson, Emerging Technology Advisor, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. Second, you urgently need to develop the ability to extract value from the technological evolution going on around you. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Anecdotally, that emphasis on finding purpose in our workplaces and in the companies we patronize — or as Simon Sinek might phrase it, starting with “why” — is redefining the way innovative companies like TOMS , Zappos , Whole Foods , and Google attract and retain talent. This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. This offered both a great opportunity for innovation and a serious challenge ?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations.

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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 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? And as computer technology simplifies and reduces transaction costs further, it is these other things that firms do uniquely well that will come more to the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? ” Coty’s “Big Opportunity” focused on developing its supply chain into a competitive advantage that could better drive innovation and business growth. How can we go even faster? Insight Center.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. Technological progress by favoring highly skilled labor to the detriment of the low-skilled, might have led to the increase in the wage premium (for the highly educated) and to widening inequalities.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 4, 2018

Humans are implanted with technological upgrades. He loved classic cars and being away from technology. So he pursued a career as a mechanic and repaired original cars, ones that were not equipped with technological enhancements. He couldn’t see past his bias towards technology to see he did the same thing as Asha.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. 37 103,000 2,813 132,141 Guy Kawasaki Innovation, Leadership Mantra: I empower people.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2019

He knew that as long as people were worried about their jobs, they wouldn’t be bringing their best selves to work, and they almost certainly wouldn’t be developing innovative solutions that would add value for their customers. And, as a result, people went back to work, they felt safe, and they did, in fact, innovate.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 15, 2015

They were constantly trying to innovate to increase their profits. Being an innovative organization is a must. Simon Masrani – The key to a happy life is to accept you are never in control. He didn’t succeed even though he had what was considered to be the best technology. We can learn much from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2011

My crystal ball devoted to the intersection of business and digital technology brought forth six predictions for 2012. There will be at least one instance of a science fiction technology becoming reality. Anyone think those are the last of the amazing digital innovations? So a lot of what's below will be off-base or dead wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

After all, every company wants to be at the forefront of its industry and on the cutting edge of innovation. To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. And for that, you need highly creative employees.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Scaling up introduces complexities that require innovative approaches to meet employee expectations and maintain operational stability. Moreover, losing key employees can result in a loss of institutional knowledge and weaken the organization’s ability to innovate.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2025

When we think about products that have become cheaper over timelike televisionswe usually believe we know the reason: technology has improved, and production has become more efficient, lowering the cost. Ehrlich lost the bet because new technologies and substitutes for copper emerged.

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