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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

It’s not productive – IT DOESNT WORK. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. It impacts culture, performance, brand, innovation, leadership development, succession and even the sustainability of your enterprise.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Telisa Yancy – Executive vice president and champion of customers, employees, growth, and innovation for American Family Insurance.

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Lafley's Ambiguous "Gift" of Innovation Failure

Harvard Business Review

Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. What vital lesson did Lafley take away from this new product debacle? "We

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. How trite and trivial.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Given its proximity to much of the innovation, California has given the most thought to the transition, already working through several draft regulation revisions since 2012. More-efficient vehicles will vastly improve human productivity, air quality, and overall livability, allowing for efficiently-designed urban and suburban communities.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. Innovation muscles can be built.

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