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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. Most founders are future-back thinkers, but “most incumbent organizations are led by people who are much less future-thinking than their founders.” Program & Implement the Strategy.

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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure.

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

Next Level Blog

To recap, Phase 1 lasted for about 8 weeks, depending on where in the world you live and, for large organizations at least, was about quickly reinventing how work was going to get done with many people working from home. agendas that can help us reimagine the future for our ourselves, our customers and our organizations.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Efosa Ojomo, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute. ? Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. So aren’t we lucky that these can’t be measured because otherwise if the organization were purely digitized, purely went through numbers, it would be a very dreary place—a prison for the human soul.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.

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4 Habits Of Innovators

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times. In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. Buses are good examples of what Haeckel referred to as “make and sell” organizations. Sadly, it’s a process that too many entrepreneurs, and indeed the organizations designed to support them, overlook.