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Great Leaders Embrace Innovation, and Innovation Demands Risks

Great Leadership By Dan

In companies who are market leaders because ‘they have always done things that way’ innovation can face an uphill battle to drive change. They can lead a diverse team in setting the business requirements for funding new ideas. In some industries that is daunting. To grow you must be innovative. To be innovative you must take risks.

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Leadership and Innovation

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a huge role for leadership in creating and living a culture that values innovation. Well, probably lots of things but this is what comes to mind first for me: Diversity ~ in every way that one human being is different from another. Failure ~ as a learning tool.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

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Are You A Strategy Driven Storyteller?

Strategy Driven

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? This book is a must-read for the easier ‘how’ to get HIRED!

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The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions

Harvard Business Review

Unlike closed marketing systems, characterized by agencies that wall off their in-house talent (creating a scarce and expensive resource), open marketing systems seek talent from anywhere in the world to solve problems, and then curate the best answers. All of these are taking a piece of the traditional marketing spend.

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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists.

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Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day. At Red Hat," says Yeaney, "there is a firm belief that the best way to get great ideas is to get a lot of ideas, from a diverse set of viewpoints." All ideas are welcome, but no idea is sacred.

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