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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. Blue Lobsters.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. Blue Lobsters.

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3 Personal Lessons On How To Succeed At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the distinct honour of being recognized by two organizations for my work in the field of leadership. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. The first came from Inc.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. While it may have mitigated the clients'' losses some of the time, the innovation was inevitably reactive, unscientific, and not robust nor holistic. Fast forward to today.

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Old Brands. New Hands. Last Stands | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. To its credit, GSK still owns Macleans and although it is no longer the #3 brand, chomping at the tails of Colgate and Crest, Macleans has benefitted from contemporary marketing and dental care innovation in a few geographies. Leadership. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Main menu Home.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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Old Brands. New Hands. Last Stands | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. To its credit, GSK still owns Macleans and although it is no longer the #3 brand, chomping at the tails of Colgate and Crest, Macleans has benefitted from contemporary marketing and dental care innovation in a few geographies. Leadership. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Main menu Home.

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