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Indy 500 Races Can Be Won or Lost in the Pit. How’s Your Pit Crew Doing?

Great Leadership By Dan

In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. In 2007, I found the answer in an unlikely place – the fashion magazine W – and from an unlikely source: Robert Downey, Jr. For new products and services for your market? What a privilege! Increasingly, the pressures were taking a toll. What else did they need?

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The Case for Crowdsourcing Projects as a Business

Strategy Driven

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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Does Your Business Model Look to the Future or Just Defend the Present?

Harvard Business Review

A transitional business platform such as Netflix’s DVD rental business provides a potentially profitable business opportunity that gets to market and enables, rather than hinders, transition to future business models as technologies, customer behaviors, regulations, or other factors evolve. Consider drone delivery services.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been following Netflix since 2005, when I first visited its headquarters in Silicon Valley and interviewed Reed Hastings, its founder and CEO. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. Noam Galai/Contributor/Getty Images. ” Wealth creation?