Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership In the dynamic landscape of corporate leadership, emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a critical component of effective management and strategic vision. This section introduces the concept of emotional intelligence and underscores its significance in leadership roles.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. Businesses that fail to adapt to disruptive changes risk losing their competitive edge and may eventually become obsolete. This proactive stance equips you to handle the unpredictable with confidence.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. How To Define A Strategy For Innovation In 2023. “A So, how to define a successful strategy for innovation at the dawn of the new year?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

I've been asked several times lately to write about, or perhaps more specifically, to opine about, innovation strategy. If you are a somewhat regular reader of this blog or my work generally, you may know that I think talking about innovation strategy conflates two very important ideas that are related but not the same thing.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This blend of personal and social competencies forms the bedrock of effective leadership, directly impacting a leader’s ability to navigate the complexities of the workplace. For more on how these components play out in practice, see our article on emotional intelligence in leadership.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Selecting the Right Venue The venue for your offsite plays a significant role in contributing to its success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Introduction to High Performance Leadership Teams Defining High Performance Leadership Teams High performance leadership teams are those that not only achieve outstanding results but also sustain these levels of success over time. It’s the bedrock upon which innovative and collaborative teams are built.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

You can’t have strategy without leadership. Strategy formulation requires a clearly defined vision, long-term goals, useful tools, and a plan to win. But without the guidance of an insightful leader who can drive the process, it is difficult to make any strategy a reality. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter?

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Kainexus

MAY 2, 2023

Business transformation strategy is the comprehensive process of changing an organization's core operations, processes, culture, and capabilities to achieve specific goals or outcomes. The strategy aims to restructure an organization's fundamental approach to its business, often in response to new opportunities or challenges.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Strategies for Improving Morale Improving workplace morale is crucial in transforming toxic workplace cultures into high-performing teams and organizations. Below are strategies that can help enhance team spirit and contribute to transforming potentially toxic work cultures into high-performing, collaborative teams.

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Kainexus

APRIL 25, 2023

Operational excellence happens when an organization consistently and reliably outperforms the competition through constant improvement and a dedication to customer value. When two companies have the same strategy, the operationally excellent company will have higher revenues, lower costs, and less risk.

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Bill Fischer

JULY 29, 2023

In the wake of Twitter's troubles, what we are witnessing is a significant rearrangement of an entire industry. This is truly a disruption saga, written large.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Dual Paths of Leadership: Immediate Gratification vs. Long-term Growth In the arena of leadership, two divergent paths often present themselves: one focused on immediate gratification and the other on long-term growth. Choosing growth over immediate gains leads to a sense of multidimensional fulfillment.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By investing in startups, corporations can access new technologies, products, and services that can significantly enhance their competitive edge. Competitive Advantage Gaining a leading edge in the market by leveraging startup agility and creativity. Market Expansion Entering new markets or segments through partnerships.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

You need to understand that the stakes are high, as the right culture can drive innovation, enhance business growth, and ensure your organization remains competitive in a rapidly changing market. Innovation is not simply about new ideas; it’s about transforming those ideas into value-creating strategies.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. For strategies on leading this change, delve into lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The competitive risks and tradeoffs you should consider before incorporating Gen AI into your organization’s strategy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

” Innovation has become imperative for organisations seeking to grow sustainably, compete at the highest level, and maintain their competitive edge in a dynamic world. Genuine innovation capability requires leaders to make tangible organisational changes to strategy, structure, people practices, and behaviours. trillion in 2021.

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Phil McKinney

JULY 31, 2023

In the 21st Century, the leadership landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The need for change is more pertinent now than ever before, as traditional leadership models prove insufficient in addressing the complexities of our modern world. It is what some are calling collective leadership.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2020

Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? You can also devise other surveys or questionnaires for employees to answer that will reveal how they feel about your organization’s innovation strategy and whether they feel their contributions are important. Do some employees feel innovation strategies don’t matter?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Here’s the downloadable Strategy Uncertainty Map I developed as part of my work with Praxie.com. Other think it’s an innate leadership skill. A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2024

Achieving this level of clarity necessitates a disciplined strategy approach, aligning resources, talent, and decisions with the company’s fundamental mission. Such dedication distinguishes a company in a competitive market, driving sustainable growth and fostering customer loyalty.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 12, 2024

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In today’s marketplace, one of the most relevant factors in gaining a competitive advantage is probably not listed among the business-success factors you learned years ago. Leaders in the most competitive organizations today know that having a diverse workforce is critical to long-term success and profitability.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Michael Roberto

JUNE 9, 2021

Planet Fitness: No Judgements, No Lunks: Case study about a successful firm with an unorthodox strategy in a highly challenging industry in which firms typically struggle to generate profits consistently. Trader Joe's: Case study about the competitive strategy and unique organizational culture at the popular and successful grocery store.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the modern competitive business environment, innovative social initiatives offer a unique avenue for growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement, often overlooked by organizations. These programs not only revitalized brand images and increased public trust, but also significantly boosted sales and customer engagement.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 17, 2023

Tackling Digital Transformation Challenges with Ease: Strategies for Success The digital transformation journey is essential for businesses to remain competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world. To overcome this challenge, it’s crucial to establish strong leadership support.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Poor Leadership and Management Practices Leaders and managers set the tone for the workplace, and their practices can either contribute to or alleviate toxicity. Authoritarian leadership styles, inconsistent policies, and a lack of empathy can all create an environment that feels hostile to employees.

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