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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

No, those fresh, once-in-a-lifetime ideas are examples of pure and raw creativity. Friendster’s founders had a creative concept, for example, but it took the minds behind Facebook to turn a similar idea into what is now one of the world’s largest companies. It’s about delivering what customers will buy or use.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. Technology is fast eliminating the need for students to spend the majority of their educational lives on campuses in huge halls, listening to dull, cardboard lectures.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. At the same time, business education needs to return to its roots. Many corporations already say they cannot find the employees they need.