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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

Harvard Business Review

The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. These concepts will be explained in more detail in a fall Harvard Business Review article written by my colleagues Matt Eyring, Clark Gilbert, and Dick Foster.).

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Improve Your Ability to Learn

Harvard Business Review

He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership. Flexibility, adaptability and resilience are qualities of leadership that any organization ought to value. In their groundbreaking 1990 article, researchers Peter Salovey and John D. But something broke when John went to Asia.