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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad. Overcome orthodoxies.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad. Overcome orthodoxies.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Let’s be honest.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Creating Inspired, Open, and Free Organizations

Harvard Business Review

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. As he considers his options, Pichai should be careful to avoid traps like incremental sustaining innovation geared toward stemming market share losses by simply adding low value features. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Disruptive innovation' How fast will it happen?