Leading Blog
MARCH 4, 2024
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.
Leading Blog
JUNE 23, 2023
D ISRUPTION has become synonymous with innovation. In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.” In Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries , Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. Stay focused on value innovation.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
E VERYONE WANTS to be an innovator. Every organization wants to be innovative; it doesn’t matter if it’s a church, a for-profit or non-profit business, or a government agency. To not be innovative is to risk being left behind. But how many of us are truly innovative? Does it fit with your strategy and goals? “As
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2019
There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Having effective leaders can help a company achieve its goals and maximize efficiency. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
What we were taught in high school science, F = MA , force = mass times acceleration, also describes the physics of innovation. The laws of innovation may be an entirely different application than Newton intended, but tracking through on the metaphor yields pragmatic tips for innovators.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2011
We want innovation. But innovation creates uncertainty. So while we say we want creativity and innovation we often reject it because it is new, different and risky. The irony is that while we say we like innovation we develop a deep bias against it. Innovation creates uncertainty. We like creativity. It’s engaging.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the “natives’” point of view — through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.
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