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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

Bob''s blog entries "The Capitalist’s Dilemma" Albert Einstein Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Clayton Christensen David and Tom Kelley Dick Foster Douglas Englebart Febreze Harvard Business Review Innovation Portfolio Partners James O''Toole John Kotter Judgment Calls Karl Ronn: An interview by Bob Morris Lao-Tse Mark Fuller Mr. Clean Magic Eraser (..)

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Learn Like A Leader

Mark Sanborn

” Theodore Levitt said, “The future belongs to those who see opportunities before they become obvious.” ” – Will Rogers. Americans spend more money each year on beer than the do on books. “This explains,” says Pastor Rick Warren, “why our bellies are bigger than our brains.”

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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?”

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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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The GOP Needs a New Product, Not a New Brand

Harvard Business Review

It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need. Lafley and Roger L. What most Republican leaders don't seem to have worked very hard at yet is figuring out what voters outside the GOP base need and want.

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