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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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Leader's Playbook For Perpetual Innovation

Eric Jacobson

And now he’s written, Going on the Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation. Most companies pray for one innovation to skyrocket their growth. Dr. Behnam Tabrizi Tabrizi has whittled those qualities down into eight main drivers of perpetual innovation : Setting an Existential Purpose: Why Does Your Company Matter?

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Learning about Innovation from Mr. Edison

Lead Change Blog

It was a fitting tribute to the man who personified invention and innovation. Today, if you want to survive and succeed, you must come up with new ideas that help you do things better. Today, if you want to survive and succeed, you must come up with new ideas that help you do things better. Innovation Is A Team Sport.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2024

Leading Blog

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

We love learning about what’s resonating, and most importantly, how teams are applying what they’re reading as they grow leaders and encourage courage and innovation. You will find the guide here (scroll to the bottom of the page at this link.) You’ve got to do something with what you read. Own the U.G.L.Y.

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How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive with Olankunle Soriyan

Let's Grow Leaders

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive.

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