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The Zen Of Innovation Leadership: 'And' Welcome to Forbes. Five Strategies to Align Leadership Development Efforts to Business Strategy. In today’s business environment, it is critical that your leadership development (LD) efforts are aligned to your business strategy. By doing so, your LD efforts will have a greater impact on the business. The critical first step in aligning your LD efforts to your business strategy is to understand that strategy. It might sound funny, but this important step gets missed often.
To get a real understanding, you need ti be able to describe it in depth and in terms of decisions. A good test or two of understanding would be to list at least five decisions your organization has made that define the strategy or be able to describe how you business strategy is different from a competitors’. With a firm understanding of your business strategy, the next step is to look at the different parts of your LD efforts and adjust them to bring them into better alignment with the business strategy. Here are five strategies that will increase the alignment between your LD efforts and the business strategy. 10 Ways to Motivate Anyone. I am often asked about how I keep employees inspired and productive. It's an essential question since companies today must accomplish more, with fewer people.
The most successful start-ups must be lean, nimble, and fierce. In a nutshell, you should hire bright, energetic, innovative employees. Then offer them the right incentives--the ones that will impact their personal brain and personality types--to keep them mentally and emotionally invested in doing their best. It's impossible to talk about motivation without mentioning Drive, a book by best-selling author Daniel Pink. (His TED lecture was turned into a fabulous video.) Pink notes that people perform best when they are given autonomy, opportunity for mastery, and the belief that their task is meaningful. Pink believes Google's "20% time," in which employees may spend one day a week on whatever they want is a shining example of how allowing intrinsically-based motivations (a sense of accomplishment or purpose) can flourish. 1. 2. 3. 3 Ways to Fix Your Company Culture.
Have you ever worked for a really exceptional company? For me, that company was McCaw Cellular Communications. Like many companies, McCaw had its list of company goals and values. The real difference was that everyone in the company truly embraced the culture, making a huge difference in how the company operated. A positive company culture can drive excellent customer service, inspire the creation of superior products, and help develop an award-winning workplace, all of which provide fuel for growth and profitability. Here are 3 things every CEO can do to improve their company culture: Start Now. Lead by Example. Reinforce the Culture. Capital is hard earned. Book review -- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? By Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Harper Business, 2002 ISBN: 0-06-052379-4 Cover price: US$27.95 372 pages Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Is an account of IBM's historic turnaround as told by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., the chairman and CEO of IBM from April 1993 until March 2002.
Lou Gerstner led IBM from the brink of bankruptcy and mainframe obscurity back into the forefront of the technology business. Part I, "Grabbing Hold," is the story of how Gerstner wrestled with the idea of taking the IBM job (he turned it down at first), followed by highlights from his first year on the job.
After stepping back to provide a brief history of IBM, Part II ("Strategy") dives more deeply into how Gerstner repositioned IBM's corporate strategy to keep the company together and pull off a successful turnaround. Fixing IBM: "All about execution" What Gerstner realized is that IBM had a unique and unequaled capability to "apply complex technologies to solve business challenges. " Back to top Culture is everything. Cloud Innovation and Impact on Business and Leadership. Cloud computing has far reaching implications for innovation, employees, customers, and business culture.
While there is plenty to consider, here are 5 future impacts on business leaders. 1) Security will no longer be just an IT issue . Considering the adage “ You break it, you bought it ” IT departments will demand business users carry the cloud security standard. Taking greater control of the future means business leaders need to know more of access management, data privacy, and impacts of security breaches. For those in marketing who do not take it seriously, failed data privacy practices and systems can damage a business reputation and can take 11.8 months, on average, to be fully restored. 2) Greater expectations of IT role and function. In a recent Economist Insight Unit study , almost 6 of 10 IT executives expect their function to change significantly in the next three years while some predict a ‘complete overhaul’ of IT. 3) Everyone becomes a knowledge worker.
7 Secrets to Being an Innovative Boss. Becoming an innovative boss is one of the key features you don’t normally see in a business plan, but it is something you should be thinking about and planning for before you hire your first employee. It doesn’t stop there. As you grow and your business evolves, keep these thoughts in mind to keep your employees engaged, your business growing, and to create a positive company culture. The list below is based on my personal experience as an entrepreneur over the last 22 years. I have been fortunate enough to bootstrap 19 startups in this time period, and have made my share of mistakes when it comes to being an innovative boss. 1.
Change is Good In a startup change comes with the territory and can help you innovate as long as you keep your employees involved. 2. Hiring great people and giving them responsibility is the first step. 3. Now that you have hired your first great employee or a team of new staff members, take one hand off the wheel and let them produce. 4. 5. 6. 7. Why So Many Changes Fail—and What You Can Do About It. Undoubtedly, you know that the ability to get results from new initiatives is vitally important to your organization’s survival, but did you know that about 70% of changes in organizations fail?
That is an astounding failure rate given that the field of change management has been around for almost two decades. Over those years many books and hundreds of articles have been written. Consulting practices were created just to address the challenge of leading change, and yet the failure rate remains high. What is going on? When I wrote Beyond the Wall of Resistance in 1996, the failure rate was about the same as it is today. When I was invited to revise the book this year, I decided to look at the reasons why this failure rate persisted. What to Avoid Don’t give people another book. Don’t offer new training programs. Don’t hire motivational speakers.
Don’t announce a new change with great fanfare. Don’t inflict change on the masses. Don’t drop the ball. What to Do 1. 2. 3. 4. Innovation Fails Because of Corporate Antibodies. Here’s a big reason why open innovation efforts can fail: they are often killed by corporate antibodies resisting the changes brought by opening up to external partners. These antibodies can exist in both large and small companies. If you’re hearing statements such as these, corporate antibodies may be at hard at work, resisting change: • “We already tried that and couldn’t make it work.” • “What we’re doing has worked fine for years; there is no need to change.” • “Our current product is still profitable; I don’t see why we need to spend money on something new that might not even work out.” • “We already explored that idea years ago but decided against it.” • “If that were a good idea, we’d already have thought of it.
After all, we are the experts on this.” (Said about an idea coming from the outside.) • “Let me just play devil’s advocate here….” • “Of course, I support innovation, but I just don’t think this is the right time to make a big change. . • Stay below the radar. Wait! 6 Surprising Secrets of Truly Great Bosses. 9 Leadership Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs. The Best Talent Is Bringing Out Talent in Others. 5 TED Talks Every CEO Should Watch. On a mission to better humankind, TED challenges the world’s most remarkable people to come on stage and give the talk of their lives in less than twenty minutes.
Inspiring, funny, motivational and educational, these messages are well worth the watch for anyone hoping to improve in their personal or professional lives. Whether you want to become a more insightful manager or more creative strategist, here are five TED talks that contain timeless advice. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action When Simon Sinek found he no longer enjoyed his stable advertising career, he struggled to rediscover his excitement about life and work. The realizations that followed spurred him to coach others through the same process to become more effective leaders. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation Best-selling author Daniel Pink makes a case for rethinking how we run businesses.
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius. 9 Habits of People Who Build Extraordinary Relationships. Professional success is important to everyone, but still, success in business and in life means different things to different people--as well it should. But one fact is universal: Real success, the kind that exists on multiple levels, is impossible without building great relationships. Real success is impossible unless you treat other people with kindness, regard, and respect. After all, you can be a rich jerk... but you will also be a lonely jerk. That's why people who build extraordinary business relationships: 1. A customer gets mad. Sometimes, whatever the issue and regardless of who is actually at fault, some people step in and take the hit. Few acts are more selfless than taking the undeserved hit. 2.
It's easy to help when you're asked. Very few people offer help before they have been asked, even though most of the time that is when a little help will make the greatest impact. Instead they come up with specific ways they can help. 3. 4. 5. One easy way is to give unexpected praise. Why Leadership Requires Prudence and Temperance. 3 Leadership Skills That Trump All Others | Inc. 5000.
The first job I accepted after college was with a large home builder in Phoenix. In my first year, the company had been taken private, carved up, and the pieces sold off. During this span of time, I worked for three different companies all while sitting at the same desk. I stopped buying business cards for a while. When the dust finally settled, I had managed to tag on with a small group of people who made up the Phoenix office for a California home builder entering the Arizona market.
None of us had the experience to become the division president or CEO, so the "higher-ups" brought in someone from the outside. They brought in an accountant. Given this was a construction company, I was a little confused why we would hire someone who didn't understand the intricacies of construction. A female CPA named Kathy, running a construction company. I had serious reservations about how her background and management style could lead such a complex business. 1. 2.
Kathy was great at encouragement. 3. What Breed Is Your CEO? Randy Komisar on Leadership and Management. In the life of a company, every dog has its day. So says Randy Komisar, a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has spent the last 25 years launching technology startups. Komisar is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he specializes in working with technology entrepreneurs. "I'm not attracted to them because of the bottom line," he says.
"I'm attracted to them to them because of the top line--they change they can make. " His own pedigree: co-founder of Claris Corporation, CEO of LucasArts Entertainment, CEO of Crystal Dynamics, founding director of TiVo, senior counsel at Apple Computer, author of two books, and "virtual CEO" to an array of fledgling companies. In this Q&A, he warns of the classic mistakes of manager-wannabe-leaders, the perils of too many bullets and not enough Zen, and why CEOs are like dogs. Kermit Pattison: What are the classic pitfalls you see entrepreneurs making over and over again?
Management is more operationally focused. Michael Lee Stallard: Leader, Beware of Failing to Give People a Voice. Thought Leaders Now Being Replaced By Feeling Leaders. No matter what business you're in, the engine of innovation is really about being moved. That's what movements are made of -- the heartfelt, intrinsically motivated effort to get off of dead center and accomplish something meaningful. This is the crossroads all of us are standing at these days -- the intersection between this and that. What the newspaper industry is going through. And the music industry. My heroes, these days, are the people who don't just stand at the crossroads, but dance -- inspired individuals who find great delight in the paradoxes, get juiced by the challenges, and realize that "innovation" is not a program, initiative, or model, but a way of life.
That's the main reason why I enjoyed the World Innovation Forum so much. Because that was precisely the mindset of the presenters -- and the people who attended -- no matter what industry, pedigree, or astrological sign. So, for all of you conference kick ass wannabees out there, take note. 1. 2. So play full out. 3. 4. Infographic: What CEOs Should Know About Employee Engagement. Welcome to Forbes. What is leadership, anyway? Such a simple question, and yet it continues to vex popular consultants and lay people alike.
I’ve now written several books on leadership for employee engagement, and yet it occurred to me that I never actually paused to define leadership. Let’s start with what leadership is not… Leadership has nothing to do with seniority or one’s position in the hierarchy of a company. Leadership has nothing to do with titles. Leadership has nothing to do with personal attributes. Leadership isn’t management. So, again, what is Leadership? Let’s see how some of the most respected business thinkers of our time define leadership, and let’s consider what’s wrong with their definitions. Peter Drucker: “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” Really? Warren Bennis: “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Every spring you have a vision for a garden, and with lots of work carrots and tomatoes become a reality.
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