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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product? Do people in your organization laugh at new ideas?

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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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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9% pace in the first quarter of 2010.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Properly implemented, capitalizing on process driven creativity can keep business from stagnating and cause growth and evolution. In fact, I would argue that too few ideas are put through the analysis process, and we are now suffering from vision paralysis. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Christensen. By Daniel H.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g.,