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Leadership: the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...; Leadership definition on BNET »

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The Innovator's Battle Plan: From the executive summary: ‘When companies have the same capabilities and motivation, they care about the battle and have the necessary skills to fight it. Asymmetries of motivation occur when one firm wants to do something that another firm specifically does not want to do. Asymmetries of skills occur when...; Tags: Management, Leadership, Innovator, Motivation, Harvard Knowledgebase; White papers 2004-09-06
Why Innovations Sit On The Shelf: Innovation is the key to a company’s success. However, most companies restrain from the idea due to the adverse implications it would have on the organizational work. The most effective way to apply innovation techniques in the organization is to encourage open and honest conversation between the employees and the...; Tags: Innovation, Harvard Knowledgebase, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-07-19
Four Ways To Innovate In Operations: From the executive summary: ‘Operational innovation should not be confused with operational improvement or operational excellence. Those terms refer to achieving high performance via existing modes of operation: ensuring that work is done as it ought to be to reduce errors, costs, and delays but without fundamentally changing how that...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Innovation, Management, Strategy, Leadership; White papers 2004-05-10
A Clear Eye For Innovation: From the executive summary: ‘Today’s dynamic business scenario requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit existing capabilities. However, few companies do it well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products...; Tags: Innovation, Harvard Knowledgebase, Clear, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-04-26
It's Time To Grow - The Right Way: Today's growth initiatives must be ever mindful of the hard-won efficiency lessons of the past several years. Strategies in vogue during the last growth cycle -- boosting revenues through mergers and acquisitions, even if they lacked strategic rationale, or using price cuts to gain market share without creating corresponding savings...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2004-03-15

Action-Training For Effective Change: From the executive summary: ‘Change management presents a major obstacle to many executives seeking to unlock the large latent profits inherent in their companies. Profitability management, the theme of the paper, is all about greatly improving a company's performance without the need for capital expenditures. However, profitability improvement requires effective...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2004-02-02
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation: Innovation refers to the application of creative ideas to organizational processes and products and come up with cutting-edge products and efficient processes. Innovation is an effective tool to gain sustainable competitive advantage. The paper argues that innovation is not only the domain of developed-world companies and many developing-world companies are...; Tags: Leadership, Management, Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, Innovation; White papers 2004-01-26
Moving Beyond The Core Business: From the executive summary: ‘Leadership businesses have the most to lose in adjacency expansions. Their valuable core franchises would be put at risk by major forays into the wrong adjacency or by premature abandonment of the core as an investment vehicle. And this risk is compounded by the abundance of...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Business, Leadership, Financial Services, Management; White papers 2004-01-12
The Politics of Innovation: The Article describes what FDA is doing to bridge the gap between the high cost of innovation and patients’ demand for lower prices. It emphasizes that government plays a critical role in improving the pathway between scientific breakthroughs and bringing affordable drugs to patients. It is not surprising that there...; Tags: Innovation, Patient, Harvard Knowledgebase, Article, Leadership, Government, Federal Government, Strategy, Management; White papers 2003-11-17
Great Leadership for Great Teams: In great teams, each member brings their best to the party. They only do the things they're best at, and they do them superbly. The work gets divided to play to each person's strengths. Article states that mental traits become great strengths when matched with the right challenge. It suggests...; Tags: Team, Leadership, Harvard Knowledgebase, Team Management, Management; White papers 2003-10-27
Getting A Handle On Employee Motivation: An organization can boost up the working performance by motivating the employees to express views regarding the organizational matters. The company should encourage employees to seek solution to their problems. The process would result in healthy communication flow within the organization and add fairness to the organization’s abilities. A person...; Tags: Employee, Harvard Knowledgebase, Motivation, Person, Leadership, Professional Development, Management, Career; White papers 2003-10-20
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption: This article is a case study about two companies. It was seen that Teradyne was successful. Hewlett-Packard was not. The paper writes about how two companies had such different results with disruptive innovation. In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause...; Tags: Performance, Harvard Knowledgebase, Teradyne Inc., Performance Management, Leadership, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; Case studies 2003-09-15
The Essence of Leadership: Author of this article explains that leadership is emotional; it's about inspiration, motivation, and connection. Unlike management, it doesn't lend itself to systems, structure, and traditional classroom teaching. What inspires people to follow is surprisingly consistent, and surprisingly simple. But be forewarned: Simple doesn't mean easy. It suggests that leaders...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Leadership, Management; White papers 2003-08-25
4+2 = Sustained Business Success: From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most of the management tools and techniques do not have any direct implications on the superior business performance. However, what really matters is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed the industry peers excelled at four primary...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Management Practice, Strategy, Leadership, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Productivity, Management, Finance, Investment; White papers 2003-07-07
Loosen Up Your Communication Style: If leaders want to connect with all of their staff, they need to combine three styles of effective communication: emotional, factual, and symbolic. Article describes how to leverage all three. When a leader communicates via only one channel, the receiver is forced to make sense of the information by filling...; Tags: Management, Leadership, Article, Harvard Knowledgebase, Channel; White papers 2003-06-30
Leadership: Fostering Systemic Creativity: Building a creative organization involves a combination of top-down, bottom-up, and brushfire approaches. To foster creativity companywide, companies must: Reduce unnecessary controls, adopt creativity, instill new attitudes about efficiency and failure, communicate the value of creative change, provide both tangible and intangible resources necessary for...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Creativity, Leadership, Management; White papers 2003-05-12
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance: Is business malfeasance always the board's fault? Everyone has a stake in ethical behavior and moral reasoning. There is a need for the corporate world to take a clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Equity, Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Investment, Financial Services, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance; White papers 2003-05-05
Firing Up Organizations in Tough Times: Fear motivates people strongly, but in random directions. Leadership aligns them in the same direction. Article explains that fear motivates immediacy and leadership motivates coordinated action. It suggests to reconnect leadership at the top and connect people to forward motivation and decrease stress. Read article to know the details. ...; Tags: Leadership, Article, Harvard Knowledgebase, Firing, Management; White papers 2003-04-28
“Black Hawk Down”: Leading in Crisis: The article quotes the U.S. Army Colonel Thomas Matthews. Crisis leadership came the hard way for U.S. Army Colonel who led the Task Force Ranger mission in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. Matthews shares his hard lessons at the Leadership, Values, and Spirituality Forum at Harvard Business School. The word crisis...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Management, Leadership, Army, Matthews, Leader, Article; Case studies 2003-04-21
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?: In modern business scenario, innovation has become a key factor in ensuring success for an organization. It provides the organization with plentiful avenues to come out with revolutionary products and services and serve the customers in a better way. Today, organizations should be very clear about their customer’s needs and...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Organization, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2003-04-21