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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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The Importance of Domain Name Selection for Non-Profits

Lead Change Blog

If you borrow a page from Gaga’s book and use one of the hundreds of newer domain name extensions now available, you can be creative—use a. The Innovative Finance Foundation (IFF) uses www.if.foundation for its network dedicated to funding sustainable development and ending extreme poverty. foundation , agency , or.

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December Leadership Development Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Neal writes, “Creativity is often described as the catalyst to innovation, and creativity does not need to be left up to chance.” Learn more about cultivating this mindset in “ Creative Innovation as a Leadership Mindset.”. Neal Burgis, Ph.D. wrote about another leadership approach on the Practical Solutions blog.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

Lead from Within

When we invest in leadership for the future we need to ensure that we can keep up, both with technology and with increasing levels of interconnection and interdependence. Every experience has something to teach us when we make it less about failure and more about innovation and creativity. © 2014 Lolly Daskal.

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Linda Freeman: Engaging, Educating, Empowering

Lead Change Blog

We are pleased to congratulate Instigator Linda Freeman on receiving the Statewide Energy Innovator Award from ReThink Energy Florida. How Linda Innovates. Linda and her team have innovated through the application of everyday items and activities to provide clean energy where there were few other alternatives.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. 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.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation. in 1985 to 5.3%