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How Does GE Address Global Issues in Innovative and Market-Changing Ways?: GE has a rich history as an innovation leader. Managers have come up with a huge list of reasons why GE is synonymous with innovation, including diversity of businesses, constant growth and investment in R&D, commitment to eco-friendly technologies, and a global presence with a wide range of products. Imagination Breakthrough Leader Shahira Raineri outlines...; Tags: Lori Deschene, General Electric Co., Edison, CNNMoney; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Hot-Button Topics for Managers in 2007: Much of success in business comes from listening to your customers, and the same is true for those of us writing for a management audience. Your insights shape the conversation, inspiring us all to question what defines strong leadership, what motivates employees to go the extra mile, and what propels...; Tags: Leadership, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-18
The Secret to Authentic Leadership; Where's Your True North?: Our recently posted Harvard Business Review IdeaCast gave you some idea of what holds leaders back . But what really propels them forward? Bill George, author of "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership" sat down with The Wall Street Journal to offer some examples of effective senior executives, and to explain what...; Tags: Lori Deschene, leader, leadership; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Why It Pays to Be Hated by Your Team: You probably don't stay up at night crying that people at work don't like you. But you might worry that your team's productivity will suffer if members get caught up in emotional responses -- particularly if one "bad" apple starts contaminating the whole bunch. Rest assured; it's actually a good thing if...; Tags: Team management, Lori Deschene, emotional exhaustion, exhaustion, leadership, leader, team; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Predicting the Effects of Leadership Change on Your Organization: The American Red Cross has gone through five leaders in eight years, prompting David Hoffman, CEO of DHR Recruiting to comment, "I don't know how an organization gains any type of momentum with such frequent leadership changes, because each one comes in with a new vision or strategy." Obviously, its better for a...; Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, Lori Deschene, C-suite, leadership, Roger Wery, board; Blog posts 2007-12-05

How to Become a Better Persuader: Six Principles to Follow: The phrase "always be closing" doesn't just resonate with salespeople. Effective leaders also need to have that "closing" skill -- the ability to sell other people on ideas. As former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca said, "You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't...; Tags: Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-06
How to Motivate and Engage Front-Line Managers: Considering only 25 percent of employees are truly engaged by their work -- and if you believe 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of people -- that leaves a lot of employees either going through the motions or otherwise underachieving. Managers are no exception. ...; Tags: Leadership, Performance management, Sales force management, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Management's Role in Network-Centric Innovation: Speakers at next week's "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" conference, part of Harvard Business School's 100th anniversary celebration, will ask some thought-provoking questions about management's role in innovation. One question about the Internet's impact on collaboration stands out: Are management processes so out of sync with networked processes that they'll...; Tags: Groupware, Leadership, Lori Deschene, collaboration, network; Blog posts 2007-11-30
When to Pass the Reigns; a Page from Coach Lloyd Carr's Playbook: Merrill Lynch recently provided us with a perfect example of poor succession planning. As more and more baby boomers go into retirement in the next decade -- with some staying on board but taking a back seat -- organizations will need to learn from failures like this. After leaders put their plans...; Tags: Leadership, Lori Deschene, Lloyd Carr, leader; Blog posts 2007-11-28
Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term Survival: Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...; Tags: Leadership, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-11-21
How to Enable Viral Change: Since we just posted a blog on innovation management and the organizational changes digitalization and globalization require, it seems appropriate to link to a series of myths about change management. Viral Change TM first listed 15 myths, and has been responding to each myth, one by one, in a series of posts dating...; Tags: Cultural Change, Lori Deschene, Viral Change; Blog posts 2007-11-20
The Future of Innovation Management; Hamel and Bryan Speak: Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan offer similar perspectives on the future role of management in their respective books, "The Future of Management" and "Mobilizing Minds" (co-authored by Claudia Joyce). Each calls for organizational change so managers an direct employees with the same innovative energy that is devoted to product development -- minimizing complexity and harnessing every...; Tags: Strategy, Workforce management, Lori Deschene, talent, knowledge; Blog posts 2007-11-20
What Keeps Employees From Jumping Ship?: A high turnover rate can be devastating for a company; it's expensive, draining for those left behind who have to pick up the slack, and frustrating for customers and clients who've developed relationships with the fallen soldiers on your staff. The Wall Street Journal online offers the key to employee retention...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-11-15
How An Incompetent Manager Motivates Employees: When Dilbert's creator asked us to abuse him in Second Life, perhaps it was his way of letting virtual art imitate life -- because he's definitely taking a beating as a manager right now. Scott Adams has his hands full trying to save his Dublin, California restaurant Stacey's at Waterford, which...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Stacey, Scott Adams, Dilbert; Blog posts 2007-11-13
Crisis Management Strategy: Prayer?: The south's drying out in a drought, and government officials are starting to wonder if the devil went down to Georgia. Sonny Perdue, the state's governor, is doing everything in his power -- including invoking a higher one -- to combat the drought. Today he'll join lawmakers and ministers on the...; Tags: Leadership, Financial accounting, Lori Deschene, crisis management, drought, Sonny Perdue, Prayer; Blog posts 2007-11-13
Study: Influential Customers Think User Reviews are Planted: In an earlier post, we discussed how companies rely on online reputation management resources to stack the user review deck in their favor -- essentially hiding negative feedback. According to a new study, some of the most influential consumers believe companies are guilty of manipulating reviews through other means, as well....; Tags: Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-10-24
Microsoft Unified Communications; Waste of Time and Money?: Microsoft's Office Communication Server 2007 -- the heart of the company's Unified Communication Strategy -- was launched this week. Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Business Division, initially described the offerings as a "software-focused approach to bring together disparate communications technologies into a unified experience -- driving down the cost and...; Tags: Strategy, Lori Deschene, unified communications, Greenfield, OCS, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-10-19
How to Recover From a Bad Business Deal: Bad deals happen to good people. Perhaps your company responded to industry changes with a good-on-paper strategy that failed to be transformational. Maybe some of the big guns made decisions based on high-up relationships but failed to foster the integration of corporate cultures. Or maybe conducting due diligence became more about...; Tags: Financial accounting, Lori Deschene, Massive layoff; Blog posts 2007-10-16
Corporate Culture Redefined: How to Navigate Mergers: DaimlerChrysler AG may soon be just Daimler AG, signaling a separation from the company's pre-Cerberus days -- before the private equity firm bought the U.S. Chrysler division for $6 billion -- and its future as a company not dependent on "the volatile North American market." In the wake of so many failed mergers, analysts are wondering why companies keep...; Tags: Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Lori Deschene, Financial Executive, merger, corporate culture, subculture, Daimler AG, globalization; Blog posts 2007-10-04
Collaboration Strategy: The Key to Innovation: Big Pharma's playing nice; at least five of the big players are collaborating with competitors, sharing intellectual property, splitting costs, and sharing proceeds of future drugs. Considering the challenges facing the industry at present -- competition from generic drugmakers, tough FDA regulations, and high costs associated with bringing a drug to market...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Lori Deschene, innovation, collaboration; Blog posts 2007-08-31