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In H1 you need traditional leadership styles, such as the Spiral Staircase (Loewe, Williamson, Chapman and Wood, 2001), focusing optimization of existing business and incremental innovation. Figure 2, Applying the Three Horizon Model. in all three Horizons at the same time!
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Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Leadership Insights 1. The New S Curve: Organizations in various countries that I am working with are all buzzing about disruptive innovation – how to build the new growth cycle? Then, put on your leadership hat.
Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Leadership Insights. The New S Curve: Organizations in various countries that I am working with are all buzzing about disruptive innovation – how to build the new growth cycle? Then, put on your leadership hat.
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It’s incremental and involves so-called spiral staircase leadership (Table A). H3 is the explorative style: needs are investigated on a deeper level and new technology is used to disrupt. 2] Based on Loewe, Williamson, and Chapman Wood (2001). Based on the work of Ralph-Christian Ohr and Kevin McFarthing. [1]
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Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.
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