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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. This compares with just one in 2011.) May On How To Encourage Creativity & Innovation Are We Ready For The Workplace Gender Shift?

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The Innovator’s Manifesto: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth Michael Raynor Crown Business (2011) How and why disruption “provides an explanation of creative creation Frankly, I was unable to fully understand (much less appreciate) the significance of what Joseph A.

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4 Steps to the Next Breakthrough Idea

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Herb Schaffner for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network (March 23, 2011). To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Thousands of business books are published every year, so sometimes [.].

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Sharing, not telling.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

He joined the creativity applications vendor in 1997, and got the CEO job a decade later largely because he was able to articulate a vision for pursuing digital marketing services as the new growth path. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.