Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Success Is a Pitfall Past success kills innovation. To innovate, you need to let go of those things. Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret Innovation means discovering, not inventing. You don’t need to quit your job to innovate. You become the expert. You get comfortable with the status it brings you.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

D ISRUPTION is happening in even the most stalwart industries, leading business leaders scrambling to create a culture of innovation in their organizations. The techniques of improvisational comedy can provide important lessons for developing a innovation mindset. Those unexpected connections are what lead to innovation.

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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.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? In our book OutManeuver we detail a new competitive strategy that leverages speed, agility, insight and innovation to win the most at the least possible cost. Can agile help you win more?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Heritage and innovation is a tension that needs to be managed— thoughtfully. Howard Schultz recognized as he began to deal with Starbuck’s identity crisis in 2008 that they had to strike a delicate balance between heritage and innovation. Sustainable influence and growth is achieved when heritage and innovation overlap.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

In The Idea Factory , author Jon Gertner brings back to life not only the story of Bell Telephone Laboratories through the people that worked there, but the story of innovation—how it happens, why it happens, and who makes it happen. It is a well told and fascinating story. (My

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source: Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Douglas Rushkoff on swallowing the storyteller’s pill to experience relief: “If a storyteller wants us to believe in a religion, then his god will be responsible for our relief.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Instability breeds resilience and innovation”. G IVEN we are in a sustained period of instability, how as leaders do we dial up the resilience and innovation, without burning out ourselves or the teams we lead? How do we leverage the instability to build resilience and innovation that creates success in ourselves and our teams?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. These needed capabilities become your innovation portfolio. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In countless cases, leaders have missed opportunities to tap into the enormous potential associated with the development of character to create innovation and excellence. But what has become abundantly clear is that disregarding the science of leaders’ character has led to incredible dysfunction for organizations and society as a whole.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

You must identify those initiatives, innovations, and even behaviors that you may once have thought were temporary or ad hoc to deal with the pandemic but which are, in actuality, permanent advantages if you allow them to be. Moreover, innovation needs to be rather immediate. You can’t look outside only when you’re failing inside!

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2023

Stacker searched for products from 1920 to today that caught hold of the public zeitgeist through novelty, innovation, kitsch, quirk, or simply great timing, and then rocketed to success. Toy shopping has transformed over the past 100 years due to advancements in the products or the marketplace.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Chuck Swoboda, the retired Chairman and CEO of Cree shares the mindset and beliefs that drive innovation in The Innovator’s Spirit: Discover the Mindset to Pursue the Impossible. Innovation is not a manageable process, but it is based on some beliefs and corresponding behaviors of which, he identifies twelve.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

We are all wired to fear the downsides of uncertainty, but we forget that change, creation, transformation, and innovation rarely show up without some measure of it.”. Source: The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown / (Blog Post).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The reality is that creativity in your career environment is derived from both the need to solve a problem and the desire to avoid or solve future problems (which often leads to innovation). The best part of visionary thinking is that everyone is capable of it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Innovation needs to be consciously thought through and carried out. Look at Great Britain’s efforts for funding innovation. It has plans to create its own Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and give money to innovative ideas. Leaders are ahead of the pack, trying to scout these innovation opportunities.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

C REATING an innovative culture is not easy. Organizations that continuously innovate have common characteristics. It not really about always day one , but I presume he chose the title because day one is a mindset that is foundational to sustaining an innovative culture. It often defies convention. Always Day One.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

He is published widely in academic management journals and magazines, and has published three previous books on design thinking and innovation, coworking, and activity based working (ABW). His new book is Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation (Amplify Publishing, Oct.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. Create the Future is paired with a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning innovation handbook, Exploiting Chaos.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

I MAGINATION is unique to humans and is key to creativity and innovation. In a time when elementary students today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been created, imagination is the path forward. Imagination is the ability to picture that which doesn’t exist.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Businesses striving to adapt and thrive amidst these changes must find innovative solutions to the matter of maintaining a robust corporate culture. Use myGiide to socialize employees : The innovative myGiide platform can play a pivotal role in socializing employees.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

George Steele and Paul Kircher on innovation: “Picture a man in charge of weapons for a medieval king. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” Source: The Prince Translated by Thomas G. Bergin (1947) II.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

We are all wired to fear the downsides of uncertainty, but we forget that change, creation, transformation, and innovation rarely show up without some measure of it.”. While facing the reality of your circumstances may bring “challenge, discomfort, and heartache, it is the only place where innovation, solution, and evolution happen.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

It seems “ that a failure to habituate many indeed be related to innovative thinking.” This is also true when changes are seemingly desirable.” Change requires that we dishabituate to the status quo. We can increase creative thought by inducing small changes to our routines and environments.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The Innovator's Book : Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators (Concise Advice) by Dr Max Mckeown. Both enlightening and entertaining, Dr Max Mckeown delivers concise advice on how to move from original insights to new ideas, and from new ideas to valuable real-world innovation.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Radical Product Thinking : The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter by Radhika Dutt. They catch “product diseases” that often kill innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. * * *. Yet in recent years many business leaders have blithely dodged those responsibilities. So, ask yourself, am I really a steward?”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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