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How Good Leadership Can Impact Employees’ Innovative Behavior

Leading Blog

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. To encourage employees to become more innovative, leaders need to pay attention to a number of issues.

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The GuruBook

Leading Blog

He has curated ideas from 45 internationally–known doers and thinkers on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic leadership. Once you understand that existing companies are designed to execute, then you can see why they have a hard time with continuous and disruptive innovation. Think of it as a two-sided coin.

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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” billion-person market in the midst of an historic economic acceleration, it has a huge unfulfilled demand, making it ripe for entrepreneurship and innovation at scale. And technology?

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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Case Study: Adopting a Deming Management System in a Service Company

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. Still today, many executives want the benefits of a fully engaged and thinking workforce but they don’t want to change the management system that in so many ways stifles creativity and innovation and seeking joy in work by all staff.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In transportation, for example, on-demand options have roiled the market, and traditional taxis are fighting back, belatedly, with apps such as Arro and Way2Ride.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.