Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This happened over and over again during the production of “Jaws,” with Spielberg and his crew forced to alter – or completely abandon – the director’s original vision to adapt to conditions on the ground. In business, we tend to mythologize innovative leaders as those who have a revolutionary vision and stick with it, no matter what.

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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

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

APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future? Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? Every executive knows that speed is important.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2023

Toy shopping has transformed over the past 100 years due to advancements in the products or the marketplace. 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.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As a leader, you have the power and influence to help your team members develop new habits that can make them more productive. As hard as it is for us doers to believe, all the evidence says that maximum effectiveness and innovation start with…STOPPING. Make sure they also have time in their schedules to stop and think.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. AT&T officially created Bell Telephone Laboratories on January 1, 1925. It is a well told and fascinating story. (My

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He This led him to develop what he called an “idiot index,” which calculated how much costly a finished product was than the cost of its basic materials. What in the design was to blame for a production-line problem?

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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

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

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. I've written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

I've learned that from my nearly forty years of working with scientists and clinicians to transform inventions into successful commercial products. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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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. If he is scientific minded, he will try to improve his bows and arrows by working on different parts of the product. Source: The Prince Translated by Thomas G. Bergin (1947) II.

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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. Empowered : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan with Chris Jones. If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working? And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

UPS should say no to the wrong customers, wrong product lines and wrong ideas. What products or services should you abandon? Innovation needs to be consciously thought through and carried out. Look at Great Britain’s efforts for funding innovation. The new CEO of UPS, Carol Tome, came in with a simple idea: saying “no.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How to Calm Your Mind : Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as vital that we also develop our capacity for calm. The Bold Ones : Innovate and Disrupt to Become Truly Indispensable by Shawn Kanungo.

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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. Imagination begins with a surprise. Surprise triggers imagination.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

James Burstsall, the CEO of Argonon, an independent production group, offers what he calls The Flexible Method. Have the confidence to innovate, think, and experiment. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.”

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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

MARCH 15, 2019

In this chronological account beginning with the American Revolution, the genius of America’s innovative success is not only its tolerance of but also its penchant for creative destruction. The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovation—innovation in management and organizing production.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with 2% of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley.

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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

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

JANUARY 9, 2019

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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Do you have the right people in the right roles, doing the right things to ensure success today and accelerate growth and innovation for a stellar future? What will differentiate your organization as a future-focused, customer-centric, innovation-driving engine of growth? Assess the market. Assess risk. Look out over the horizon.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. You can, too.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It should not be at all; advice like this should bring about thoughtful and productive dialogue. These conversations can guide us toward more effective approaches to things and innovative solutions. Avoid phrases like “You always” or “You never,” as they oversimplify complex situations and hinder productive communication.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

8 Peak Performance Habits to Elevate and Transform Your Personal Productivity via @gavin_adams. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. Boss’s Tip of the Week: When you’re criticized from @wallybock. Words matter. But behaviour matters more by @suzimcalpine. Three Ways To Connect Better With Others from @JohnBaldoni.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Inflation was in double digits while productivity and personal income were stagnant — an economic condition that became known as stagflation. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Productivity through well-trained, rewarded, and empowered front-line employees.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”. Curiosity will play a critical role in steering an organizational transformation, creating a new product, innovation or better understanding the competition. The Big 4 Leadership Attributes.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg­mental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminous clarity and su­preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. In B2B and B2C?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

. • Technology and Operations: A startup must be able to fulfill its value promise, which entails actually inventing the product, building git, physically delivering it, and servicing it after it’s been sold. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. False Starts.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. Rossman adds, “If you’re going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must have a thick skin. Not just with your product or service, but broadly and deeply.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

How does the data relate to what you’re doing or to an emerging trend or a competitor’s product launch? If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas. They march through the phases robotically, as if they have discovered a magic formula for innovation. Step two always follows step one.

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