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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Global Executive Search: Connecting Talent with Opportunity Across Borders

N2Growth Blog

The Scope and Significance of Global Executive Search Securing top leadership talent is essential in the dynamic and fast-paced business world. Global executive search firms are entrusted with identifying and recruiting experienced and qualified executives worldwide.

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Tracey Franklin on Building an Engine of Innovation Through Talent

HR Digest

In this exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Franklin dives into her unique talent management strategies, and how they’re propelling Moderna to the forefront of medical innovation. While we’ve grown, we’ve taken steps to provide quality, equitable, and timely resources to our global workforce.

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How Second-Tier Cities Can Close The Innovation Gap

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation tends to follow the agglomeration effect, whereby scale plays a crucial role in how innovative an area is. This transformation serves as a testament to the capacity of innovation to flourish even in geographically isolated and underdeveloped areas, provided three crucial factors are present, as identified in our analysis.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

T HE 10th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum was held in November 2018 in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria. Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Professor Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management IMD. ? And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset. Adopt mindfulness; 2.

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What Kind of Innovator Are You?

Leading Blog

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Are Firms Targeting Sustainable Innovations?

The Horizons Tracker

Each year the Boston Consulting Group takes the corporate temperature in terms of innovation. In their latest report, they look specifically at sustainability innovation, both in terms of the priority firms are assigning to it and the results they’re achieving. Indeed, 80% of the top 50 most innovative firms fell into this camp.