Leapfrogging

Author : Soren Kaplan
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609944964

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Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan Pdf

“Leapfrogging is as much about the secrets of breakthrough leadership as it is about business innovation . . . loaded with fresh ideas and examples.” —Hans Middag, Director, Learning and Development, Randstad In his trailblazing debut, Soren Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace surprise—the new key to business breakthroughs. Instead of fighting against uncertainty, Kaplan reveals how to use it to break down limiting mindsets and barriers to change the game. By highlighting specific ways to transform both good and bad surprises into unique opportunities, Kaplan encourages leaders to compete by embracing counterintuitive ideas, managing paradoxes, and even welcoming failure. This is the key to “leapfrogging” —creating or doing something radically new or different that produces a significant leap forward. Leapfrogging connects new research, unconventional strategies, and practical tools for navigating the “messy” and elusive process of achieving business breakthroughs. Filled with real-world examples from innovators such as Gatorade, Intuit, Philips, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, OpenTable, and Etsy, Kaplan shows that any organization or business function can leapfrog. Using his LEAPS process (Listen, Explore, Act, Persist, and Seize), leaders learn to seek out, recognize, and respond to surprising experiences and events as a way to create solutions that leap beyond the current expectations of customers, partners, employees, the market, and the competition. Kaplan’s Leapfrogging is the new handbook for the modern leader. “Superbly crafted, powerful in its simplicity, offering smart, actionable learning . . . Finally, a simple, holistic model that allows for breakthrough thinking and living.” —Mary Beth Robles, Vice President, Colgate-Palmolive “His campaigning for fearless innovation and flexibility is compelling.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Peter Ho
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1604564105

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Leapfrogging Development in Emerging Asia by Peter Ho Pdf

This book examines the opportunities and constraints of environmental leapfrogging in Asia by zooming in on several country cases: China, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan. The world has witnessed the profound transformation of China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore from impoverished developing regions into strong and internationally competitive economies. However, it has become obvious that their rapid development has come at a price. Contrary to their economic successes, these Asian economies have been much less successful in terms of ecological sustainability and environmental protection. Mega-cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Ho Chi Minh City suffer from increased air pollution, traffic congestion and a boom in the generation of solid waste. The rapid industrialisation poses a dual challenge to the state. "Doing it right the first time" -- by installing clean technologies, developing the institutional capacity and the appropriate governance style to enforce environmental regulations- could lead to "leapfrogging", the development process and building industrial economies that are both competitive and more sustainable than economies with an older industrial base.

Author : Soren Kaplan
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609944940

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Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan Pdf

What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in mediocrity? Kaplan gives business leaders the tools through his LEAPS process to do exactly what they're taught to avoid: embrace uncertainty and invite surprises.

Author : Rebecca Winthrop
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815735717

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Leapfrogging Inequality by Rebecca Winthrop Pdf

Exemplary stories of innovation from around the world In an age of rising inequality, getting a good education increasingly separates the haves from the have nots. In countries like the United States, getting a good education is one of the most promising routes to upper-middle-class status, even more so than family wealth. Experts predict that by 2030, 825 million children will reach adulthood without basic secondary-level skills, and it will take a century for the most marginalized youth to achieve the educational levels that the wealthiest enjoy today. But these figures do not even account for the range of skills and competencies needed to thrive today in work, citizenship, and life. In a world where the ability to manipulate knowledge and information, think critically, and collaboratively solve problems are essential to thrive, access to a quality education is crucial for all young people. In Leapfrogging Inequality, researchers chart a new path for global education by examining the possibility of leapfrogging—harnessing innovation to rapidly accelerate educational progress—to ensure that all young people develop the skills they need for a fast-changing world. Analyzing a catalog of nearly 3,000 global education innovations, the largest such collection to date, researchers explore the potential of current practices to enable such a leap. As part of this analysis, the book presents an evidence-based framework for getting ahead in education, which it grounds in the here-and-now by narrating exemplary stories of innovation from around the world. Together, these stories and resources will inspire educators, investors, leaders of nongovernmental organizations, and policymakers alike to rally around a new vision of educational progress—one that ensures we do not leave yet another generation of young people behind.

Author : J. P. Singh
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791442942

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Leapfrogging Development? by J. P. Singh Pdf

Examines how developing countries have restructured their telecommunications in order to "leapfrog" or accelerate development.

Author : Ethné Swartz,Caren B. Scheepers,Adam Lindgreen,Shumaila Yousafzai,Marianne Matthee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800370395

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Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa by Ethné Swartz,Caren B. Scheepers,Adam Lindgreen,Shumaila Yousafzai,Marianne Matthee Pdf

Offering invaluable insights into technologically-driven change in Africa, this incisive book envisions myriad positive economic changes brought about by new technologies and innovations. Rooted in original research from contributors who have worked and taught in Africa, it encapsulates developments and breakthroughs throughout the continent.

Author : Keun Lee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785367939

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Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging by Keun Lee Pdf

This book elaborates upon the dynamic changes to Korean firms and the economy from the perspective of catch-up theory. The central premise of the book is that a latecomer’s sustained catch-up is not possible by simply following the path of the forerunners but by creating a new path or ‘leapfrogging’. In this sense, the idea of catch-up distinguishes itself from traditional views that focus on the role of the market or the state in development.

Author : Reiner Klingholz,Sabine Sütterlin,Alisa Kaps,Catherina Hinz
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781928314776

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Leapfrogging Africa by Reiner Klingholz,Sabine Sütterlin,Alisa Kaps,Catherina Hinz Pdf

In this study, we look at the potential for development leaps in Africa in three key sectors that provided the basis for socioeconomic development around the world: health, education and agriculture. Advances in these sectors increase the human capital, create jobs and economic opportunities and have a positive influence on each other. Healthy and well-fed children can learn better; hygiene and better medical care diminish infant mortality, which reduces the desire for a large number of children; education for women promotes gender equality and causes birth rates to fall further. This creates a population structure under which the economy can grow particularly well: a demographic dividend becomes possible.

Author : Xiao-Shan Yap,Rajah Rasiah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315449876

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Catching Up and Leapfrogging by Xiao-Shan Yap,Rajah Rasiah Pdf

Ever since Schumpeter’s groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation. Using a rich account of detailed interviews, this book offers new evidence on how latecomers have successfully caught up and leapfrogged incumbent firms. Catching Up and Leapfrogging: the new latecomers in the integrated circuits industry explores how technological transitions affect latecomer catch-up strategies, and vice versa, in a high technology industry. It looks to the East Asian latecomers who, towards the end of the twentieth century, pioneered a new pathway through organizational change by specializing in the key production stages of integrated circuits and pushing technologies further. This volume assesses how latecomer resource acquisition strategies have varied alongside structural industry changes and evaluates the mechanisms through which firms started life as technology followers and rose to become technology leaders. Xiao-Shan Yap and Rajah Rasiah present a unique story about how firm strategies evolve from the catching up phase to the leapfrogging phase, captured from the accounts of managers on the ground. It is the first time firm-level strategies have been systematically analysed to describe twenty-first century strategic management in the integrated circuits industry in particular, and the high tech industry in general. The evidence and analysis in this book offers insights for chief executive officers, policy-makers and researchers to revisit existing approaches to the theory of catching up and leapfrogging.

Author : Keun Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192847560

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China's Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up by Keun Lee Pdf

After the miraculous economic growth known as the Beijing Consensus, China is now facing a slowdown. The attention has moved to the issue of the middle income trap. This book deals with this interesting issue in the context of China. It also discusses China's limitations and future prospects, especially after the rise of a new cold war between China and the US, namely the question of whether China would fall into another trap called the Thucydides trap, or conflict with the existing hegemon as a rising power. In sum, this book plays around three key terms, namely, the Beijing Consensus, the Middle Income Trap, and the Thucydides trap, and applies a Schumpeterian approach to these concepts. It also conducts a comparative analysis that examines China from an economic catch-up perspective. An economic catch-up starts from learning and imitating a forerunner, but finishing the race successfully requires taking a different path along the road. This act is also known as leapfrogging, which implies a latecomer doing something different from, and often ahead of, a forerunner. Technological leapfrogging may lead to technological catch-up, which means reducing the technological gap, and then finally to economic catch-up in living standards (per capita income) and economic size (GDP: economic power). This linkage from technological leapfrogging and catch-up to economic catch-up corresponds exactly with a similar linkage from the Beijing Consensus to escaping (or not) the middle income and the Thucydides traps. One conclusion from this book is that China's successful rise as a global industrial power has been due to its strategy of technological leapfrogging, which has enabled China to move beyond the middle income trap and possibly the Thucydides trap, although at a slower speed.

Author : Rebecca Winthrop,Adam Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 0815735707

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Leapfrogging Inequality by Rebecca Winthrop,Adam Barton Pdf

Confronted with pervasive and persistent inequalities, we must make room for bold new approaches that have the potential to deliver quality learning for all children and youth--not a century from now, but today. In Leapfrogging Inequality, researchers at the Brookings Institution chart a new path for global education by examining the possibility of leapfrogging--rapidly accelerating educational progress to ensure that all young people develop the skills they need to thrive in a fast-changing world. Analyzing a catalog of nearly 3,000 global education innovations, the largest such collection to date, researchers explore the potential of current practices to enable such a leap. As part of this analysis, the book presents an evidence-based framework for getting ahead in education, which it grounds in the here-and-now by narrating exemplary stories of innovation from around the world. .

Author : Robert R. Miller
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821349503

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Leapfrogging? by Robert R. Miller Pdf

IT and the Internet have been seen as a way to enable developing countries to leapfrog over the development path and increase their rate of growth. This paper reviews the situation in India, where the government has strongly encouraged the development of information technology. Although the software sector has become a large and growing export industry there are still the general problems of poor infrastructure and low public investment alongside regulations and controls that can stifle growth. These factors will limit any leapfrogging as economic growth depends on complementary and complicated interactions.

Author : Oren Harari
Publisher : American Century
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000031194198

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Leapfrogging the Competition by Oren Harari Pdf

LEAPFROGGING THE COMPETITION is about the strategies and principals that can help organizations bound over chaotic terrain, flexibly bounce off unanticipated hurdles, and spring forward to catch opportunities that fleetingly appear.

Author : Iñigo Herguera,Stefan Lutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Competition, Imperfect
ISBN : UVA:X006072394

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International Leapfrogging and Subsidies by Iñigo Herguera,Stefan Lutz Pdf

Author : Desta Mebratu,Mark Swilling
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928480402

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Transformational Infrastructure for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa by Desta Mebratu,Mark Swilling Pdf

African countries face unprecedented challenges of defining a future development pathway in a resource- and carbon-constrained world. This book addresses this challenge, with special reference to the set of infrastructure that most African countries require to meet the sustainable development goals and fulfil the aspirations of Agenda 2063. Infrastructure is a key factor that determines how resource and energy flow and transform through socio-economic systems. Decisions made today by African countries on their infrastructural configuration will determine the inclusivity, resource intensity and climate resilience of their development pathways for decades to come. This book is a product of a two‑year research conducted by a group of African scholars who have an extensive academic and practical experience on the development of key infrastructure sectors in Africa.