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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

As I wrote about back then , my biggest and most valuable takeaway from that trip was being able to see how much time and effort the leadership and crew spent in preparing for things that could happen. What trends do we already see that, if they continue, would have a big impact on the way we design for the future?

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. Mark Leslie: Putting the “We” in Leadership via @StanfordBiz. Mark Leslie: Putting the “We” in Leadership via @StanfordBiz. 29 Lessons from the Past 29 years by @pauljsohn.

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world? ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey.

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Summer of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). Another wanted to discuss how to identify transformational trends (which allowed me to dust off Seeing What's Next ).

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. via n2growth.com [.]

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Getting Beyond the Narcissism/Advertising Complex

Harvard Business Review

How much less risky does it feel to embattled executives charged with innovating to instead follow along with the prevailing trends? Perhaps the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative could fund the award, with support from world-leading academics like Clayton Christensen and Rita McGrath.