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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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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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The Best Leaders Have the Best Systems

Lead Change Blog

Strategy is important, innovation is important. They show up again and again ill-equipped for success. If you’re going to accomplish anything big or important—and that’s what leadership is all about—you’ll need systems. A big project is made up of hundreds, maybe thousands of those types of repeated tasks.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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What is Your Innovation Style?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. Yet in a recent survey of 5,000 only 1 in 4 people believe they are living up to their creative potential. If you chose more items on the left, your inborn styles is that of a "structured" innovator.

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This Word Unleashes Change & Innovation

N2Growth Blog

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. No is not all it’s cracked-up to be. It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned, and your talent is not performing up to par. Rather than prioritize by exclusion, use systems, processes, etc.,

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship.

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