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WILLIAM BARNETT

Visionary Authority on Strategy, Leadership and Competition; Author, “The Red Queen;” Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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William Barnett - Speaker Profile

How does a company get ahead in a dynamic, competitive market? How can leaders help their organizations create and sustain innovation and growth? The answer, says leading strategy expert and Stanford University Professor William Barnett, is to lead “by design”: focusing not on what you think is next, but on creating the systems to discover what’s next.

A wide range of industries have seen rapid innovation over the past few decades, including high-tech markets like computers and telecommunications, but also financial services, manufacturing, transportation, health care and the list goes on. In so many industries, highly competitive incumbents have been swept away virtually overnight, thanks to sudden changes in technologies and business models. The problem, says Barnett, is that so many leaders have failed to lead by design, so their organizations have not been able to adapt. In his keynotes and interactive workshops, Barnett helps companies devise strategies and systems more likely to breed innovation, and thereby improve their rates of innovation and growth.

Barnett, the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy and Organizations at Stanford Graduate School of Business, is widely known for applying a theory of adaptive evolution to the business world in his seminal book, “The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves” (Princeton University Press, 2008). The book explains that even a company working at its fastest pace to deliver value can be quickly surpassed by competitors able make the next jump forward. Barnett’s extensive research and case studies illustrate how building an environment tolerant of “nonconsensus” ideas is key to generating innovation and enabling the dynamics within your organization that create breakthroughs and transformation. “Ideas are best when they can be turned into action,” he says. Using a range of examples from his own case studies, such as Alibaba, Facebook, Apple, Mercado Libre, Cemex and others, Barnett shows how companies retrospectively praised by business theorists as ingenious were, in the beginning, doubted by those same experts and many investors as unworkable. Barnett elaborates on how business leaders can change their structures and incentives to reward rather than ignore or punish creativity and ideas that don’t have widespread support. Many of these ideas will ultimately fail, but the few that succeed can mean the difference between running in place and leaping ahead.

Barnett is also a leading authority on the study of competition, both between and within businesses. Though competition within a market or industry is conducive to innovation, competition within organizations can prove detrimental, depending on the systems in place for dealing with it. Barnett teaches companies how to emulate successful examples of competitive organizations that also encourage cooperation, rewarding innovation and creativity without allowing competition to hurt the greater good. This is another issue that must be addressed by companies’ internal strategies and systems, enabling them to create the conditions in which innovation – which is otherwise unpredictable – can organically arise.

After receiving his PhD in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, Barnett was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Business. In 1991, Barnett transitioned to the Stanford Business School as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 1994 and received tenure in 1996, and has been a full professor since 2001. Barnett has also twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Barnett serves as a senior or associate editor for several academic journals. His research is published in the leading academic journals, with citations in the thousands, and he has conducted case studies and consulting engagements with hundreds of firms.

William Barnett - Speaking Topics

Discovering Greatness by DesignRepeatedly, new technologies and business models transform industries, creating tremendous value and forever changing the way human activities are organized. In this session, we tackle the question of how a business leader can help to orchestrate the creation of a great organization. By the end of this session, you should understand these ideas:
  • Strategic emergence
  • Sense-making as a function of leadership
  • Strategy as logic
  • Strategic planning
  • Testing the value hypothesis
  • Error, false positives and false negatives in testing strategy
  • Value capture vs. value creation
  • Nonconsensus vs. consensus innovation
  • Exploration vs. exploitation as organizational strategies
  • Technological uncertainty vs. market uncertainty
For more on this topic, read his online articles, “Discovery Beats Planning, So Plan to Discover” and “The Source of Genius.”
Leading for Competitive AdvantageWhy are some organizations more competitive than others? In this presentation, William Barnett addresses this question, focusing especially on what you can do as a leader to help your organization gain and maintain a strategic advantage. By the end of the session, you should understand the following concepts:
  • Positional advantage vs. capability-based advantage
  • The basis of advantage, and trade-offs between bases of advantage
  • “Red Queen” competition
  • Barriers to entry
  • Strategic alignment
For more on this topic, read his online articles,  “What is Strategy” and “Strategic Advantage.”
Leading Organizational GrowthUltimately, one of the best measures of success is organic organizational growth. Yet strategies for growth are fraught with risk, and confront business leaders with critical decisions. William Barnett delves into the exciting and hazardous world of leading growth in this session. By the end of the session, you should understand the following concepts:
  • Viral growth and engagement
  • Marketing-led growth
  • How growth can cause failure
  • Demand-side increasing returns
  • Platform strategies
Leading Entrepreneurial StrategiesEntrepreneurship is widely seen as the engine that drives economic development in much of the world. At the same time, entrepreneurial firms are extremely likely to fail. Faced with this powerful risk-return trade off, many students feel torn over whether to join a successful company or to start a new firm. In this presentation, William Barnett looks at the challenging problems and promise of entrepreneurial strategy. You should end the session with a better understanding of these ideas:
  • Product-market fit
  • Jobs to be done
  • The “whole product” vs. the “integrated product”
  • Signal vs. noise
For more on this topic, read his online articles, “The Power of Product Market Fit” and “Want Success? Invite Failure.”
Leading Global StrategiesGlobalization is a fact of life in virtually every industry, and the rise of powerful global firms is part of that reality. At the same time, regional and national firms often gain an advantage by being locally responsive in ways that global giants cannot. William Barnett delves into the tension between global leverage and local responsiveness. By the end of this talk, you should have an understanding of:
  • Global leverage vs. local responsiveness
  • National economies as “logic laboratories”
  • National culture vs. organizational culture
  • Corruption and the informal economy
For more on this topic, read his online articles, “National Culture: Constraint or Catalyst?” and “Two-Faced Compliance.”

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