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Leading the way
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Leading the way
Ideas and insights from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning
© 2024 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.
Innovating on Innovation
/in Uncategorized /As you may know, we regularly update Harvard ManageMentor® topics to provide learners with the latest and greatest in leadership development. During this process, we challenge ourselves to incorporate the most current, most relevant thinking and practices, and to make the content available in ways that continue to meet the needs of today’s learners. Last fall, when we began our review of the two innovation-related topics, we decided to challenge ourselves even further: Why not innovate on our approach to innovation? Early, often, and ongoing collaboration As we always do during topic refreshes, we researched trends, sought input from clients, […]
Moving from Control to Clarity
/in Uncategorized /In an earlier post, I highlighted a basic paradox about learning culture in an organization—that learning is extremely human, and organizations tend to be, well, less so. Earlier this month, I had the chance to explore that paradox a little more deeply by spending time with 30-plus learning and talent leaders, entrepreneurs, and business executives in Mexico City, exchanging ideas about trends in leadership and business in Latin America. Through the course of the discussion, which covered topics ranging from digital transformation to leading a multigenerational workforce, the need emerged for a key shift in leadership that gets to the […]
Why We Need to Make Every Manager a Great Coach
/in Uncategorized /Earlier this month I was on a panel about coaching at the ASU GSV summit in San Diego. My panel colleagues included a L&D professional and three startups in the coaching space. We had a great conversation about the rising need for coaching skills in today’s workplace. As work evolves and looks quite different from how it does today, we need to help employees develop their learning agility and communication skills to be able to keep up. And that need is top of mind with employees, as well. In the past 12 months, a quarter of a million of our […]
It Doesn’t Take Creative Genius to Innovate
/in Uncategorized Featured on Homepage /Innovation has long been viewed as critical for the long-term success of any business. Many businesses that failed to heed the warning “innovate or die” have, in fact, found themselves dying. Look no further than the taxi industry for an example: Thanks to Uber and Lyft, the value of a cab medallion has plummeted, and cab companies are disappearing. While innovation is essential, our thinking often leads us to define innovation as something that is profoundly disruptive, the province of exceptional creative genius: Henry Ford revolutionizing manufacturing with his assembly line; Amazon’s Jeff Bezos changing the way that millions of […]
Decisions, Decisions: How L&D Can Use Data to Gain Insight on Learning
/in Uncategorized /Everyone needs to make a snap decision at some point their careers. There’s no data to base it on, no time to wait for it. So we follow our instincts, relying on our experience and know-how to make the call. But, deep down, we know that decisions are smarter if they’re informed by data. And there’s proof to support this gut feeling. In April 2017, Boston Consulting Group looked at the top 10 market cap companies and discovered that the top five positions were all held by data-driven companies: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. A sixth data-driven company (Alibaba) rounded […]