Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A global mindset is a critical skill parallel to legal, marketing, sales, or strategy. By cultivating a true global mindset, individuals working around the world will be able to: Assess new markets. Manage high-performing teams. Its training isn’t an optional area of casual interest for employees. Understand customer behavior.

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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

. “To stay focused on their education and career goals, learners need comprehensive wraparound supports, whether they are person-to-person r tech-enabled, to help them overcome hurdles and manage multiple commitments and competing priorities,” she says. Social capital. Leveling the playing field.

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HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

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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. Skills for scaling.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. Research has linked the virtues and benefits of trust to economic prosperity, societal stability, and even human survival.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Do you manage your company’s reputation? Why is it important to manage your reputation? Lida Citroen , an expert in the field of reputation management, has a resource to anyone who wants tips to build a reputation that can withstand negative influences and becomes stronger over time. Do you consider your personal brand ?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. My think-tank colleagues and I were stunned to see how many concurrent businesses the typical entrepreneur owns and manages in Africa. These conclusions were hasty.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Unhindered, they quickly amassed valuable social capital through an array of personal and professional relationships, as well as local intelligence and insights.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In practical terms, what this means is that management should not seek to maximize the wealth of any one of its major constituencies — customers, investors, employees, and society (in the form of obligations to governments). Of course, to realize these benefits we require not only self-interest but also well-functioning markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Happily, Legatum's Nathan Gamester and Matt Baker were happy to answer a set of questions we pulled together to provide both an update and some background for readers unfamiliar with their work: What are the major trends that the index reveals that would be of particular interest to managers in multinational companies?

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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.” Performing market assessments. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. At the same time, we’re not arguing that conglomerates aren’t effective in emerging markets. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. Which jobs are happiest? Eleven broad job types are recorded in the Gallup World Poll. Which groups of workers are generally happier? Related Video. Why the Strong U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Markets change. 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." Technology changes. Consumers change. Channels change.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. I love Joe and Wanda on Management. It’s a well-framed discussion of framing: Managers and Decision-Making. Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. Our focus is on social capital.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The effect of connections is even greater in… how the market reacts to their buy and sell calls. And although there are benefits to social capital, as Fang and Huang’s study makes clear, rewarding the people with the chummiest network simply creates a self-fulfilling cycle. What a wild idea.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

How to Manage a Toxic Employee. This will ensure that the marketing perspective is represented and will keep my team in the loop of upcoming priorities so we can plan accordingly and meet critical deadlines. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap. Why We Fight at Work.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But it would take a lot of social capital. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

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. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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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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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

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. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers.

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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. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Actually, we already know in great detail what the new model of marketing will look like.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Make no mistake, I am a capitalist: Someone who puts capital to work, and wants something back. There is no doubt we benefited from this. But we weren't capturing any of it in our financial reports.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Explicit laws vary but so do implicit social norms, which can be easy for outsiders to transgress. Managers who take overseas assignments or change industries should ensure that they are clear on what constitutes legal misconduct and socially sanctioned though technically legal behavior in their new environment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. On the front pages of major U.S. Furthermore, U.S. Perhaps U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In fact, he says, learning how to talk about politics in a productive manner can help you “manage other difficult conversations at work ,” including peer performance reviews or disagreements over strategy and policy. ” If that doesn’t work, she suggests asking your boss for help managing the situation.

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