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Leaders: Where Are Your Best Ideas Born? The Power Of Incubation

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Roger L. My friend Michelle Miller-Levitt was on the panel. Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. Firestien, PhD : I’d bet you a hundred dollars that you don’t get your best ideas at work. At work, most of us are in implementation mode. Action mode.

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Karl Ronn: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Most Valuable Business Insights: 11-15

First Friday Book Synopsis

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11. Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.].

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