The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The history of innovation is a long list of failures that eventually led to bigger successes. Accidental innovations and unplanned applications happen every day. In The Pursuit of Perfect , Tal Ben-Shahar writes, “We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I soon learned that this scene – one of the best known in the entire film – isn’t what Spielberg initially had in mind. In business, we tend to mythologize innovative leaders as those who have a revolutionary vision and stick with it, no matter what. It’s about delivering what customers will buy or use.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 10, 2013

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Larry Keeley with Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters John Wiley & Sons (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison With regard to the Edison quotation, I agree while presuming to add, “Execution without discipline is merely activity.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Indra Nooyi.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

From @WallyBock Learning about innovation from Mr. Edison and his phonograph. Learning Something New? From @JohnBaldoni Herbie Hancock: Get Out Of The Way When Your People Are Learning. 25 Lessons Learned (or Reconfirmed) in Year Five Away from Corporate Life by Mike Brown @brainzooming. by @phylliskorkki.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Some of the world’s most innovative and successful entrepreneurs started their companies as hybrid entrepreneurs,” the researchers explain. The authors believe that this kind of “hybrid entrepreneurship” is effective because it allows entrepreneurs to learn more effectively. In 1997, 20% of CEOs on Inc. Having a plan B.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 15, 2014

Are you a leader who build teams that innovate again and again? Creating and sustaining an organization that is consistently innovative is extremely difficult (and rare). The best leaders of innovation see their role quite differently. Former Pixar […] Are you a leader who build teams that innovate again and again?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Creativity is essential for innovation. Unfortunately, we don’t drift toward creativity and innovation. First, we must recognize the need to foster a team approach to creativity and innovation. Thomas Edison, one of the most prolific inventors of all time, readily admitted that he drew upon ideas from many people.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation from @MindShiftkqed. What Bill Gates learned from Thomas Edison by @BillGates. The Five Rules Every New CEO Should Follow by Roger Martin. Which Comes First: Organizational Values or Personal Values? by Jon Mertz. From George Shultz : "Issues on My Mind".

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” Before discovering a major breakthrough, inventor Thomas Edison insisted, “I have not failed. Consider this scenario: Your team comes up with an innovative solution to solve a complex problem in a new way. Ultimately, no failure is productive unless we learn from it. But what about quick failures?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2021

“To ensure a constant stream of high-quality ideas, managers need to help employees recognize that creativity is an acquired skill and provide opportunities for learning from creative experiences,” the researchers explain. A learning orientation. Central to our success with creativity is a learning orientation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 26, 2022

Such cheerleaders often evoke the spirit of Edison, who famously remarked that his thousands of failed experiments were a necessary precursor to the invention of the lightbulb. Edison’s notorious example merely serves to illustrate the importance of learning from each dead end so that you can be more successful next time.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2010

However, as helpful as reading about leadership from a conceptual angle can be, the most effective way to learn is by example. Steve Jobs, celebrated CEO of Apple, didn’t start out with his vision of innovation that is the hallmark of his wildly successful company. Anyone who keeps learning is young. Thomas Edison.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. Ford did not think up the combustion engine or automobiles, Edison did not think up incandescent light bulbs, Larry Page did not think up search engines. The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 30, 2011

By those strict standards, Edison could have been derided as a colossal disappointment based on his initial attempts (and, thus, you very well might be reading this article etched on paper by candlelight). As Edison aptly recognized, if we ever want to move forward, we have to take chances.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 6, 2021

For instance, a few years ago researchers from the University of Reading highlighted that innovation tends to be a far more iterative affair. The study found that a series of steady improvements via trial and error is key to innovation over a prolonged period of time, and that great, sudden leaps are pretty rare.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

I learned that its intent was to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation. Edison who invented the light bulb, Franklin and electricity, Bell and the telephone, Jobs and the iPod. I learned that there’s a less-commonly-known second half to this proverb. Origins Of The Killed Cat. Cats Have Nine Lives.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2020

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison worked on several projects at the same time. If it worked for Franklin and Edison it might work for you. See what works for you – I’d love to see photos of your creative spaces, learn about your breakthrough ideas, and hear about whether these practices help your creative output.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. For instance, Sun Edison’s business model demonstrates that increasing impact doesn’t decrease profitability.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2013

What you really have to sink your teeth into is the understanding that failure is the only way you learn. Because failing big is learning big. As Thomas Edison so graciously put it, “I have not failed 10,000 times. coaching success innovation Lisa Demayo failure' But you never have to stop at failure.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Anthony, or Thomas Edison? But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. However, celebration can help others learn to value their contributions. It is about providing leadership to all those passion-driven over achievers who end up as the “Mozart” in organizations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Edison had it right when he said, “I have not failed. LEARN : consider every failure, every mistake, to be a learning opportunity. SHARE : what you’ve learned and the mistakes you’ve made to help prevent repeats and others having to re-invent your wheel. The Art of Learning From Failure to Get Better.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists are a great aid to our memories, because they document important points that we would have learned by doing things. People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. " Hell, there ain’t no rules around here, " Thomas Edison famously said.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 27, 2014

It’s a book about the power of connecting within and learning from people who are very different than us as the real key to innovation, collaboration, and greater business and personal success. I also started 13 years ago and still lead a non-profit organization called “Passion for Learning.” ALAN: Yes, so think about this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Like a good consultant, I had 106 slides on best practices in innovation — too many to digest. So I whittled them down to an executive summary with four simple points, each tied to an individual: an "Innovation Mount Rushmore." The original Innovation Mount Rushmore had four faces: 1. Find them and learn from them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Innovators need a heavy dose of faith. For example, I combine well-grounded research that highlights patterns of successful innovation and my own field experience into a short checklist of factors that indicate whether or not an idea has potential (in a future post I'll provide more color about using this checklist). Keep the faith.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Thomas Edison said it over a century ago: “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. Think Different. Opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I have not failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison. After we finished painting around 1:00AM, we fastened a dozen Sharpies to the wall alongside these simple instructions: (1) describe a time when you failed, (2) state what you learned, and (3) sign your name.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. For instance, Sun Edison's business model demonstrates that increasing impact doesn't decrease profitability. billion people who don't have it today.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. These operate outside the functional structure entirely, led by top executives with newly created job descriptions: Chief Digital, Risk, or Innovation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. ” IBM’s game-changing laptop was the ThinkPad.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Each branch has its proper responsibility and should learn to interface with the others. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Tree™ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com. Rather than risk going out on a limb, employees either don’t learn or use their communication skills. Communication. Not knowing.

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