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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Lessons from Gilbert and Sullivan. Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. and ponder The Pride Paradox. why is everyone smiling?

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. But a large company can innovate better than the market. And the odds are pretty high that she is going to lose. Why is that?

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation. New tools and strategies.