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Bill Taylor’s attention-getting, audience-grabbing style and message really worked with our team. He was enjoyed by the entire audience.
– Philips Healthcare
Bill Taylor has encouraged a generation of executives and company-builders to think differently about change, leadership, and the new world of work. A spirited and hard-charging entrepreneur, he co-founded Fast Company, easily the most influential voice on business and innovation in the last two decades. Fast Company chronicles the revolution in management and competition driven by technology, and profiles the mavericks and rule breakers who achieve outsize success by taking a different path. In less than six years, a magazine that took shape in borrowed office space in Harvard Square sold for $340 million.
In addition to writing, Bill’s passion has always been speaking-bringing audiences groundbreaking new ideas and techniques to compete, innovate, and succeed. He’s also authored three bestselling books on leadership, culture, and change. His latest, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways, was named “Best Strategy & Leadership Book of 2016”, by 800CEORead. His previous books include Practically Radical and Mavericks at Work. Bill created the “Under New Management” column for The New York Times and has published numerous essays and CEO interviews in the Harvard Business Review, where he now blogs regularly.
Bill’s latest book, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways, offers a set of messages and a collection of case studies about how to unleash breakthrough creativity and cutting – edge performance in event the most competitive, hard-to-change fields. Simply Brilliant was published in September 2016 by Portfolio, the business imprint of Penguin Random House. The book was named “Best of 2016” by Leadership Now. Wharton professor Adam Grant calls it “a fascinating look inside companies that are rewriting rules of success.” Sir Ken Robinson says it “offers transformative messages for leaders in all walks of life.”
Simply Brilliant is a squeal of sorts to Bill’s popular book, Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself. Bestselling author Daniel H. Pink called Practically Radical, “the most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read.” Anne Mucahy, former chairman and CEO of Xerox, called it “a handbook for successful transformation and a great tutorial for implementing your change agenda.”
In the pages of his renowned magazine, Fast Company, and in three bestselling books, Bill has chronicled the disruptions and transformations that are reshaping business and society. He brings bold thinking and inspiring case studies to help healthcare audiences rethink every aspect of strategy, culture, and day-to-day practices. Bill emphasizes that a renewed sense of imagination is as vital as greater access to information. Hospitals and healthcare companies that break new ground are the ones whose people can elevate the sense of what’s possible in their field. He also explains that the most effective leaders—at every level—are the most insatiable learners. The best healthcare organizations are determined to keep learning as fast as the world is changing. Finally, amidst seismic pressures and dramatic shifts, Bill argues that organizations that aim to achieve big things understand the power of small gestures to send important signals about who they are and what they care about. Whether it’s reimagining the patient experience, redesigning hospital rooms, or creating interactions between patients and providers that are as authentic as they are efficient, it’s just as important to be kind as it is to be clever. Bill is committed to translating the lessons he’s learned from some of the world’s most creative and successful organizations into a compelling program for healthcare audiences—to help leaders, managers, and front-line contributors make positive, deep-seated change in uncertain, fast-moving times.
Relentless pressures on cost…An ever-escalating pace of technology advancement and digital disruption…Customers who are delighted and confused by the services they receive…Public policies that gyrate between sharp extremes. Hospital leaders, healthcare professionals, nurses and technicians, and executives from the pharmaceutical, insurance, and medical-device fields face unique and complex challenges. That’s why the work of leadership in healthcare is the work of change—unleashing a spirit of renewal and reinvention at every level. Healthcare organizations can’t do big things if leaders and front-line colleagues are content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently from how they did them in the past. In an era of hyper-competition and nonstop disruption, the only way to thrive in the future is to stand for something special.
In an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the most urgent work for organizations everywhere is the work of making meaningful, deep-seated change. When customers have higher expectation than ever, digital technologies and new business models create more choices than ever, and political and social trends create more turmoil than ever. That means even the most successful companies have to rethink and reimagine every aspect of how they do business and deliver results – building on their past success, as they build out a new perspective on the future. But how do you break new ground when there is so much pressure to avoid mistakes? How do you keep people focused and confident in a world that seems so uncertain? In short, how do you unleash long-lasting, positive change in turbulent, fast moving times? These are the questions Bill Taylor addresses in his provocative and energizing keynote. His message is designed to hep leaders from all walks of life transform their organizations, shake up their industries, and challenge themselves. He brings his message to life with colorful stories of organizations that are unleashing innovations and driving transformations in all sorts of fields – from retain to software, automobiles to financial services, hotels to hospitals. Ultimately, Bill’s message, lessons, and stories amount to a manifesto for change and a manual for achieving it – at a moment when change is the name of the game.
In a world being remade before our eyes, leaders who make a difference are the ones who can reimagine what’s possible at their orgainzation and in their field, and who can turn bold strategies into relentless execution. And they’re not just CEOs; they’re executives running business untils, managers in charge of key departments, engineers or marketers running project teams, entrepreneurs building a company from scratch. regardless of their formal role or title in the organization, high-impact leaders exude both originality and utility-provocative thinking that energizes their colleagues, a roll-up-the-sleeves approach to work and culture that shapes how everyone shares ideas and solves problems. Put simply, the best leaders are the most insatiable learners and the most effective communicators. In this inspiring and instructive keynote, Bill Taylor offers hands-on thinking gleaned from the most extraordinary leaders he’s studied over the last 25 years. These leaders have many different personalities and styles, they’ve built very different kinds of companies and organizations, but they’ve all wrestled with the defining questions that face leaders everywhere-questions whose answers amount to a new agenda for leadership. the challenge for leaders today is to help their organizations see things that other organizations don’t see, and to do things that other organizations can’t and won’t do. Bill’s insights, stories, and takeaways prepare leaders for every level to master that challenge.
There has never been a more excitin time to be an entrepreneur, whether it’s building a company from a blank sheet of paper, launching or investing in a franchise, or starting something new inside an established organization. I nthe old world of business, the strong took from the weak. If you had the deepest pockets, the biggest factories or labs, the best-known brands, you won by virtue of your power. In the new world of business, the msark take from the strong. The most successful entrepreneurs don’t try to out-compete their bigger rivals; they redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas in a world filled with me-too thinking. Thanks to the revolutions in computing, communications, and social media, along with an explosion of new business models and new sources of financing, smaller and smaller groups of people can do bigger and bigger things. In this proactive and pragmatic keynote targeted to entrepreneurs, small-business leaders, and franchise owners and operators, Bill Taylor offers a set of principles and a collection of case studies drawn from some of the world’s most successful company-builders; founders of small banks, restaurants, retailers, consumer-product companies, software firms, franchises, even a parking garage. These hard-changing entrepreneurial leaders are winning big by changing the game in their fields. Bill offers a new business plan for entrepreneurial growth, and hands-on advice for turning goals into results.
Business today is about distinctive competitive strategies, game-changing technologies, and creative social media and marketing. But the most successful organizations, those built on fierce executive and nonstop innovation, work as distinctively as they compete. The first question great organizations can answer is: What separates us from our rivals in the market place? But the next questions is: What holds us together as colleagues in the workplace? In an era of brash ideas and disruptive business models, organizations that create the most extraordinary value are the ones that generate the most widely shared sense of commitment, connection and compassion among colleagues. Whether you’re in a fast-moving technology fiedl or a more traditional, slow-to-change industry, your orgnaization can’t be exceptional in the marketplace unless it creates something exceptional in the workplace. In a keynote that is at once highly strategic and deeply human, Bill Taylor draws on his access to some of the world’s most high performing and creative workplaces to expore how organizations can unleash and sustain a culture of fierce execution and nonstop innovation. His ideas, lessons, diagnostics, and case studies are a pragmatic guide to the new world of work and a cutting -edge agenda for recruiting, evaluating, organizing, and retaining talent.
“Bill was wonderful and the buzz he created was extremely positive. In fact, there was so much energy around his speech that we asked him back to talk to our Advance Leadership Academy.”
Henry Ford Health System
“Bill nailed it! He did such a great job customizing his talk to our challenges. More than 130 folks volunteered to do follow-up work after the session. Simply amazing! He got us going.”
Boston Children's Hospital
"Bill is informative, funny, motivational, and a great story teller. That is a real gift. He was a hit with our attendees!"
Neighborhood Health Plan
"Bill Taylor knocked it out of the park! He had a great style and delivery, and the message was bang-on what we were looking for. He also did the best job I’ve ever seen of tying his message back to comments and examples from internal speakers that spoke before him. We really enjoyed having him."
General Mills
"Bill Taylor’s attention-getting, audience-grabbing style and message really worked with our team. He was enjoyed by the entire audience."
Philips Healthcare
"Bill Taylor was outstanding. He was an entertaining storyteller who did a great job of connecting the dots between our business and his knowledge of client experience and innovation.”
Hook, Hardy and Bacon
"The standing room only crowd was a testament to both Bill Taylor’s content and style and the incredible interest our participants had in his material."
Jewish Federations of North America
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