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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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In Praise of Average Joes

In the CEO Afterlife

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe culture. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. Gail, an accounting clerk, inspired people like no other.

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In Praise of Average Joes

LDRLB

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. She asked them to keep the secret.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Task management. Chess supremo Garry Kasparov famously noted after his battles with IBM’s Deep Blue, that an intermediate human player teamed with a computer was better than either an expert human or a super-machine operating independently.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.