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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

As I watched the documentary, I was struck by how closely the story mirrored case studies from the business world, and how perfectly it illustrated the points I try to emphasize in the leadership and innovation class I teach at MIT. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership).

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. Video Transcript. DTC Operator. Dimensions.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2019

Leading Blog

The Coffee Bean : A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change by Jon Gordon and Damon West. It provides readers with the tools they need to design innovative and indelible experiences and to move their organizations into the experience economy. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Fostering The Sense Of Belonging Promotes Success from @JohnBaldoni. Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Daily disciplines for successful leaders by @Mark_Sanborn. by @joecalloway.

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James Mattis: My Favorite Books

Leading Blog

G ENERAL JAMES MATTIS credits his leadership success to his prodigious reading habits. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray. Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present by Williamson Murray. The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

Survive, Reset, Thrive (SRT) is a practical and innovative interconnected three-mode approach : Survive : Stabilizing your business when a shot hits. You must execute with agility and learn along the way to a sustainable, successful, high-growth path. What is success? Taking proactive measures. Where should we play?

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