Remove 2011 Remove Analysis Remove Construction Remove Innovation
article thumbnail

Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight.

Blog 322
article thumbnail

Sowing Wild Oats & Getting It Out of Your System - What's Really Happening

Building Personal Strength

As his innovations came on line, management decided they didn't want to lose his talent, so they made him a vice-president. The foundation for "executive" thinking is under construction - reasoning, intuition, analysis, evaluation, understanding, judgment, decision-making, foresight, planning, management and self-regulation.

Wilde 97
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Understanding the Language of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

article thumbnail

Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. But in the final analysis, ‘A Short Lesson in Perspective’ is a valued insight into life for each and everyone of us. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. So “here’s the thing”. Let’s trade.

article thumbnail

How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

article thumbnail

The Power of Defining the Problem

Harvard Business Review

Without that rigor, organizations miss opportunities, waste resources, and end up pursuing innovation initiatives that aren't aligned with their strategies. How many times have you seen an innovation program deliver a seemingly breakthrough result only to find that it can't be implemented or it addresses the wrong problem?

Power 9
article thumbnail

What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation. Employee incentives.