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How to Carve Out a Great Team Culture in a Fast Growing, Changing Company?

Let's Grow Leaders

Team Culture: Create real clarity — get surgical about what you’re really asking people to do Create clarity and get surgically specific about the MIT (most important thing – one of our 6 core competencies of leadership ). Incubator Guide. If you haven’t already done this – download our I.D.E.A.

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Help Us Innovate the Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

For now, too many companies are still approaching the innovation challenge in a piecemeal fashion, a web-based suggestions box here, an awards program there, and a corporate incubator over there, somewhere. We're looking for examples and ideas that will help us how build innovation into the woof and warp of our organizations.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

They were using sort of these old models of that’s not a fear, that’s not core, that’s not our core competency, etc. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. Is there actually a Blockbuster still open?

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises. Educate and Motivate Others.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurs can serve as the "R&D function" for learning how to serve underdeveloped markets, according to Jim Koch, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University , which has supported more than 160 social enterprises over the last decade.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

This can provide a useful contrast to blue sky innovation sessions, where ‘no ideas are bad ideas’ and many ideas are so outside of a company’s core competencies that they aren’t remotely actionable. In essence, OneLeap runs something like an accelerated competition and incubator inside the company.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Alphabet will have a longer time horizon, which will allow it to take on “moon shot” projects, and it is unlikely that it will sell the companies it incubates. They are disciplined (ruthless) in jettisoning those that may not be on track to scale and win. A talent magnet.