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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

Haeckel popularized the alternative approach of “sense and respond”, whereby organizations were constantly scanning their environment, and adopting a sufficiently agile approach to enable them to rapidly respond to changes in their environment. Understanding the customer.

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

Engaging Leader

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help": Edward Schein "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth" "Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work" "The Agility Factor" "What successful organizational transformations share: McKinsey Global Survey Results" Alessandro Di Fiore Art Kleiner “Five Factors for Winning” “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”: (..)

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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Luckily, Susan David and Christina Congleton explain how you can learn to do a better job of managing your thoughts and emotions in Emotional Agility.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Much of the welcome recent innovation in management practice has come from the fringes – new communities and groups developing approaches such as the agile (or Scrum) movement, design thinking, lean-startup methodologies and beyond-budgeting approaches, among others.

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How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals

Harvard Business Review

And, on the other hand, it includes being adaptive and agile, demonstrating an ability to connect with different kinds of people through many different communication platforms and technologies. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life?