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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

That’s how it feels, especially when an organization that promotes itself as being committed to an engaged culture is led by a CEO who is unfocused, unserious, unkind, or simply doesn’t get it. Any day some horrible headline about some unethical behavior committed by an executive will cause the whole company to come crashing down.

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Feedback

Lead on Purpose

Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | champions , feedback , listening , process , success « Book Review: Here Comes Everybody Commitment » Like Be the first to like this post. 2 Responses davidburkus , on July 19, 2010 at 1:57 pm said: The quote comes from Ken Blanchard, and he is dead on.

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The Three Main Organizational Drivers

Great Leadership By Dan

seeks to make profits, but their primary actions are designed to increase their influence, their market share, their breadth. ? analyzes potential products, services, and markets carefully to identify the most profitable avenues, then pursues those avenues for as long as the profits meet expectations. ?

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

They define a team as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” I first saw this term used in the book Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard. ’ Without these, you don’t have a team.

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Collaboration is the Key to Providing Consistent Brand Value

Leading Blog

This is a post by Libby Gill, author of Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow. So how you do you continually commit and re-commit to going the extra mile for your customers? Marketing' As much as people love to over-complicate the topic of branding, simply put, a brand is a promise of value.

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