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How Being A Generalist Can Help You Adapt And Innovate

The Horizons Tracker

One of the core benefits from this approach is that it allows us to be more innovative. Innovation today is increasingly recombinative in nature. This means that innovators are not necessarily inventing completely new things, but rather applying existing technologies in new ways. Driving innovation. How do you get tenure?

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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When Leadership, Ingenuity and Humanity Won the Day

Next Level Blog

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. I appreciated David’s note for both the kindness he showed and for bringing the memory of the rescue back to mind.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. This ready supply of stable income made the inherent uncertainty of entrepreneurship a difficult sell. Better alternatives. Indeed, what students learn in medical school will be just 6% of what they know within a decade of practicing. “We

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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

a Guest Post from Steve Roesler by Kevin Eikenberry on November 23, 2010 in Guest Posts , Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning Steve Roesler is an award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management, and career management topics and can be followed online at the popular All Things Workplace website.

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Learn or Die

Leading Blog

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. Army Special Forces believes that adaptability—learning—is predicated on self-efficacy, resiliency, open-mindedness, mastery achievement motivation, and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty.”

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? It was a humbling time to serve in uniform. I Think Not.

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