Remove Kaplan Remove Management Remove Marketing
article thumbnail

The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

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 ).

Books 452
article thumbnail

Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

Leaders who possess the unyielding intention of creating breakthroughs give themselves a leg up by ensuring everything they do adds a completely new level of value to the market. Leading disruptive innovation requires managing incredible levels of uncertainty. Boundary Pushing. Pushing boundaries occurs on two levels.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

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.

article thumbnail

Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

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.

article thumbnail

Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. 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.

Execution 211
article thumbnail

Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/13/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Untapped […].

article thumbnail

Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

Through rapid prototyping, the bank was able to bring a mobile banking application to market in just 60 days (versus the typical 12-18 months), and at approximately one-tenth of the cost. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership' What is true in human nature is also true of corporate culture: we fear what we do not know.