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Leading in a New Direction - 3 Techniques for Thinking up New Business Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. Incubation’ is more than just ‘sleeping on it’. No late fees, as a business model where the renter must replace each returned DVD benefits from tardy returns. ? See what happened there?

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. Here’s how to start: Identify the leading edge customers (customers that think creatively, ask for new things, or are your early adopters). And they do so strategically.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. In this case, it’s not.

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PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner

Harvard Business Review

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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0507 | Denise Brosseau: Full Transcript

LDRLB

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).