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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business. It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Many have interpreted these facts as evidence that the private sector is becoming less competitive.

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Don't Wait for Change

Harvard Business Review

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8 trillion industry that employs 5.6 Yet most industry leaders were either in denial or didn't know what to do.