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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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How Covid Affected Young Asylum Seekers

The Horizons Tracker

The film is based on a 20-month study that examined the life of young asylum seekers from 13 different countries. The researchers hope that the research will inform concrete legal, policy, and practice proposals which will prove essential in safeguarding these children and ensuring their rights and welfare are upheld.

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"Big Content" Is Strangling American Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has emerged as a key means by which the US can pull itself out of this lackluster economy. In the State of the Union, President Obama referred to China and India as new threats to America's position as the world's leading innovator. China and India are creating environments extremely conducive to disruptive innovation.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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What Does Pixar’s Collective Genius Look Like?

Harvard Business Review

What happens when an organization innovates? It’s an important question if you want more innovation, because the answer will shape what you do as a leader. We’ve been studying innovative groups and their leaders for the past decade, and we’ve seen how that process works in organizations that are able to innovate over and over and over.

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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

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How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams

Harvard Business Review

Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about.". During the long process of creating a blockbuster film, the teams at Pixar rely on criticism to make their work stronger.