First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 27, 2013

Robert Steven Kaplan is the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. He is also and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. with […].

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Leadership. The world is a busy place, especially for those in leadership. The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes & Barry Posner. This is the quintessential book on leadership with loads of empirical support. Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan. Great leaders need solid foundations. Innovation. We’re biased.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

Here's a guest post by Paul Thornton, a Great Leadership regular: To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Thornton is the author of numerous articles and 13 books on management and leadership.

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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? why is everyone smiling?

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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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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. By: Elle Kaplan via Inc As the CEO of a mission-driven, socially-conscious firm, I’ll be the first to tell you that vision and values are crucial, but it takes more than big-picture thinking…. What were some of the top leadership articles you read this week?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At Captain Fantastic’s poor ego management results in behavior that is a combination of defensiveness, arrogance, lack of composure, being distrustful, being mischievous and colorful, and being passive. W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish?

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LDRLB

JUNE 18, 2012

Subjects completed a “leadership questionnaire” and received one of two random results; they were told either they had an aptitude for strong leadership or, they “may not be as competent as others.” This research reveals a leadership paradox when it comes to innovation. Innovation innovation kaplan'

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead. In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

That is one of the central findings of a team of scholars from London School of Economics and Harvard Business School , who have burrowed into the day-to-day schedules of more than 500 CEOs from around the world with hopes of determining exactly how they organize their time—and how that affects the performance and management of their firms.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

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. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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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. He is a professor of management at Oral Roberts University where he teaches a popular course on creativity and innovation.

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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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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Key take-aways from their latest research: Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Senior management teams needs to have regular, probably monthly, meetings that focus only on strategy. Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets.

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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. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard in 1992. Key take-aways from their latest research: Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Senior management teams needs to have regular, probably monthly, meetings that focus only on strategy. Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets.

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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. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. What’s required to execute strategy has not been taught in the classroom.

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Leading disruptive innovation requires managing incredible levels of uncertainty. Adaptive Planning. Join Soren for a free webinar on July 26 to take a deeper dive into the topic of Leading Disruptive Innovation.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One thing we do know for sure is that, in the early 1990s, Robert Kaplan and David Norton invented the balanced scorecard , a tool to monitor performance that wasn’t solely related to financial progress. These unattributed stories, repeated around the internet, are difficult to verify.

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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. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. The discussion involved how to create new financial services for their high net worth clients (a.k.a.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas John Butman What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial […].

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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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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, youand what makes your team and organization unique, says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2023

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the new book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success.

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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. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 30, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. Hewitt loved to quote “past stories of conservative wisdom and leadership to fellow workers as a means of. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

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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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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). “Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “What makes this book unique, not to mention worthwhile?

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan. If you aren’t sure, you’re not alone.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

APRIL 21, 2009

I was thinking about American Idol when I read the just released book, hot off the presses - "The Power of Small" written by my 2 fave advertising gurus - Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They manage to inspire us, make us laugh and even make us cry, showing us how "small" can change our lives in a BIG way!

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Additionally, explains Peterson, "trust is the number one leadership competency needed today, principally because of how it affects every other competency leaders need to have." Kaplan Other valuable takeaways from the book include: The gap between what a leader says and does is at the heart of trust.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc.,

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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.

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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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