![]() ![]() ![]() Last, be sure to read the piece by Bill George and Jay W. Social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson demonstrates how to improve execution through an approach motivational scientists call “if-then planning.” It works for individuals and, studies now show, for groups as well. The third article in the package focuses on another thorny leadership issue: getting your team to do what it says it’s going to do. The piece details how leaders at some forward-looking firms are tackling the problem-and getting results. ![]() While organizations require a strong business case for any new capital investment and delegate authority very cautiously, time goes largely unmanaged. Elsewhere in the Spotlight, a trio of Bain & Company authors-Michael Mankins, Chris Brahm, and Gregory Caimi-show how companies frequently squander their most precious resource: time. The article is part of our Spotlight on Leading the Focused Organization. ![]() economy around half a trillion dollars a year. It’s a compelling challenge: Research shows that the 20% of workers who are discontented cost the U.S. This month we’re pleased to be publishing Kim and Mauborgne’s latest work: “Blue Ocean Leadership.” In this article the INSEAD professors apply their model to understanding what managers at all levels need to do to tap the unrealized energy of employees who aren’t fully engaged. That phrase entered the business vernacular, and their book on the topic, published in 2005 by Harvard Business School Press, has sold an estimated 3.5 million copies worldwide. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne wrote one of the most influential Harvard Business Review articles of all time: “Blue Ocean Strategy.” The piece showed how companies can gain a competitive edge not by challenging their rivals head-on but by finding uncontested “blue ocean” markets to conquer instead. ![]()
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