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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation. in 1985 to 5.3%

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Is Flexible Work Key To Attracting The Brightest Talents?

The Horizons Tracker

Accounting systems are another significant hurdle to adopting more flexible work practices, as many have been developed with standardized headcounts in mind for labor costing. “Doing so can also develop other team members’ knowledge and provide better backup for clients.”

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Best Leadership Books of 2011.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. ” There were other limitations. .

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Why Estonia Is Letting Entrepreneurs Become “E-Residents”

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. in 2011 to 2.9% The Singaporean economy’s growth rate went from 6.2% A new business model.