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Leading in the Wild

Lead Change Blog

They extend a heartfelt invitation to all (does and bucks) to join them on their wild journey. “Do Opening the cage door, Hazel works to convince the four to abandon their confined and boring dwelling and join his band in the wild. Welcome to the Wild. The Way of the Leader in the Wild. Do you ever come out?”

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Geoffrey Moore on Big Data and RFID: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd […].

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root. Studies have shown that humorous self-criticism works much less well as a tool to engage with peers and superiors, and can even reduce one’s credibility with subordinates – if used excessively.

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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business Review

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Perhaps you too are ready to disrupt yourself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

The freedom to innovate unleashed by the JOBS Act may prove far more disruptive, perhaps challenging the wildly successful models of today’s donation-based services. It may fall to a new generation of disruptive innovators to usher in the era of crowd-based investment. Disruptive innovation Finance Innovation'

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Let’s Stop Arguing About Whether Disruption Is Good or Bad

Harvard Business Review

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.