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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

As I watched the documentary, I was struck by how closely the story mirrored case studies from the business world, and how perfectly it illustrated the points I try to emphasize in the leadership and innovation class I teach at MIT. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership).

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. Do You Have All the Answers? Do You Lead Positive? by @ericaarielfox.

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The Four Stops On the Way To Compelling Customer Story Content

Strategy Driven

Make sure to visit each stop along the journey and you’ll soon discover what it takes to draft and publish creative customer testimonial content that will boost your business and maximize your marketing potential! Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people.

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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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When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

Harvard Business Review

It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. A hundred years from now, he said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st century and say, "It was an actively creative society. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation. Or something like that.