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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Not innovation for the sake of innovation, but innovation that helps operators and improves guest experience. .

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. A pioneer in the field, Rand’s personal brand got strapped to a rocket when he started his company, Moz, in 2004.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. military base. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Since the business was particularly slow during the winter, its owners, Ferran Adrian and Juli Soler, decided to close shop 2-5 months a year to travel and search for new dish ideas.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. If Android throws a Hawaiian luau with a five-course feast, free travel, and attendees get to meet Robert Downey Jr.