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How to Get Unstuck
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Artículo HBS-F0905A-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasTwo professors who have studied how leaders regain momentum in uncertain times suggest four ways to get your employees to face their fear, outrun hesitant competitors, and seize advantage.Desde 8,20 €
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Sustaining Discovery-Driven Growth
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Capítulo de Libro HBS-3075BC-EThe challenge of introducing discovery-driven planning to an organization isn't met necessarily just because a critical mass of people are using a few of the tools. Certain structures and practices are necessary to support the process and to sustain a discovery-driven mindset. These are outlined here, as well as the critical tasks of the CEO and senior team in making growth a real priority. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Driven Growth:...Desde 8,20 €
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Transient Advantage
McGrath, Rita GuntherArtículo HBS-R1306C-EDirección estratégicaFor decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to best its rivals over the long term. Though we can all point to organizations that have succeeded with this approach--think GE and Unilever--in today's world, the edge of most companies doesn't last long. The forces at work here are familiar: the digital revolution, disappearing barriers to entry...Desde 8,20 €
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Learning to Live with Complexity
Sargut, Gokce; McGrath, Rita GuntherArtículo HBS-R1109C-EDirección estratégicaBusiness life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. But in today's hyperconnected world, complexity is the norm. Systems that used to be separate are now intertwined and interdependent, and knowing the starting conditions is no guide to predicting outcomes; too many continuously changing interactive elements are in play. Managers looking to navigate these difficulties need to adopt new approaches. They shoul...Desde 8,20 €
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Failing by Design
McGrath, Rita GuntherArtículo HBS-R1104E-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIt's hardly news that business leaders work in increasingly uncertain environments, where failures are bound to be more common than successes. Yet if you ask executives how well, on a scale of one to 10, their organizations learn from failure, you'll often get a sheepish "Two-or maybe three" in response. Such organizations are missing a big opportunity: Failure may be inevitable but, if managed well, can be very useful. A certain amount of failur...Desde 8,20 €
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Designing Specific Growth Initiatives: A Discovery-Driven Approach
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Capítulo de Libro HBS-3070BC-EOnce corporate leadership has defined what success should look like for the whole portfolio of new initiatives it will be pursuing, the next step is to flesh out discovery-driven plans for each of the major initiatives. This chapter shows you how to connect your growth strategy and internal processes to your specific strategic initiatives and provides an example of how to start a discovery-driven plan. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Dr...Desde 8,20 €
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Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyArtículo HBS-R0907F-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasThe current economic crisis is not just another rough spell. Today's mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty will continue even after the recession ends. The immediate crisis - which we will get through with policy makers' expert technical adjustments - sets the stage for a sustained, or even permanent, crisis, a relentless series of challenges no one has encountered before. Instead of hunkering down and relying on their familiar expertise t...Desde 8,20 €
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How the Growth Outliers Do It
McGrath, Rita GuntherArtículo HBS-R1201J-EDirección estratégicaSteady, predictable growth is what every big company strives for, and what investors prize above all else. McGrath set out to discover how many companies actually deliver. To meet her initial criteria, a company had to have a market capitalization of at least US$1 billion and to have grown by 5% each year over a five-year period. Only 8% of the companies in her sample of 4,793 qualified. When the five-year period was doubled, only 10 companies qu...Desde 8,20 €
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Design Effective Interventions: Mobilizing People to Tackle an Adaptive Challenge
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyCapítulo de Libro HBS-3280BC-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasEffective interventions mobilize people to tackle an adaptive challenge. They may be designed to make progress at any point in the process: for example, to surface a difficult issue, quash a diversion, or move people forward through a difficult period. At whatever stage of the process you are intervening, this chapter provides a checklist, a series of practices that can make your interventions more effective. This chapter was originally published...Desde 8,20 €
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Operating Across Boundaries: Leading Adaptive Change
Heifetz, RonaldCapítulo de Libro HBS-3794BC-EHuman communities have always had to acquire new adaptive capacity. With each new wrinkle of complexity, often generated by new technologies, people have had to invent and discover new ways of living and doing business across group boundaries. So it should come as no surprise that in the face of our ever-changing and globalizing technologies, practices, and aspirations, we face important challenges for which our current repertoire of strategies f...Desde 8,20 €