Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2019
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 6, 2020
Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2019 was our eighth full year of operations.
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The Rise Of Deglobalization
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 30, 2023
However, the pace of international trade of goods and services has been waning significantly since 2011, a trend that is being driven in part by the growing tide of nationalism. In this context, the question arises: how can industrial companies ensure sustainable growth in today’s global markets?
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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?
Tanveer Naseer
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Instead he spent the better part of his 96 years unraveling the secrets of management. He did this to such a degree that he became recognized as the “Father of Modern Management.” It was published shortly before the stock market crash which preceded the Great Depression. But management cannot create leaders.”
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Competitive Labor Markets Help Extract Community Benefits From Multinationals
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 24, 2022
The fruit exporter managed to secure dominance in its market due to a combination of land concessions and tax breaks, such that by 1930 the company had around 3.5 The researchers measured the economic wellbeing of people in the communities where the company operated between 1973 and 2011.
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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource.
The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week - A Look Ahead at 2011
Sales Wolf Blog
JANUARY 10, 2011
SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Today I would like to shift gears and take a look ahead at what the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogging community sees in store for us in 2011. Enjoy!
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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-04-22
Tanveer Naseer
APRIL 22, 2011
The Most Important Question a Manager Can Ask [link] # leadership #communication #. The 5% Creativity Challenge [link] # innovation #productivity #. Encouraging Innovation & The Story of the 5 Monkeys by @ GwynT [link] # innovation #. How to Deal with Customers Who Are Stuck in the Past [link] # custserv #marketing #.
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Tough-Minded Ways to Innovate | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
MAY 16, 2011
Tough-Minded Ways to Innovate. by John • May 16, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 3 Comments. But after Pearson’s corporate life atop PepsiCo, he became an insightful HBR contributor, particularly with regard to innovation. Innovative companies are led by innovative leaders. In the CEO Afterlife.
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133 Brand Surgery ? excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article | In.
In the CEO Afterlife
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
Brand Surgery – excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands. A vast number of famous brand names need brand surgery.
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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure
Mills Scofield
JUNE 16, 2013
This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. Maybe you can help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.
Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 10, 2018
Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention. And the list goes on.
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Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 28, 2011
In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. I've always thought the "leader vs. manager" debate was kind of useless, and I wrote an early post about it here. Note: today, 10/28/2011, is the 4 year anniversary of Great Leadership. Leaders vs. Managers. There's risk.
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The ?M? Word: A Company's Most Underrated Intangible | In the CEO.
In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
by John • November 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. Market share was responding but not profit.
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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-04-22
Tanveer Naseer
APRIL 22, 2011
[link] # leadership # Thanks @ SmartBrief for including my latest piece on # leadership and grit in today’s NAW SmartBrief – [link] # The Most Important Question a Manager Can Ask [link] # leadership #communication # Thanks Wally! link] New post from @ timvanderpyl # Thanks Kim!
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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-11
Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 11, 2011
Staying Ahead of Innovation Challenges [link] # innovation #. Why You Need a Mobile Website by @ ShellyKramer [link] # marketing #. RT @ Marcio_Saito ) # Management | [link] #. The March 2011 # Leadership Development Carnival is now up on @ greatleadership ‘s blog – [link] #. Thanks Allison!
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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer
Engaging Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure.
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Tanveer Naseer
APRIL 1, 2014
State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.
Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 28, 2011
Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.
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207 Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2010
In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.
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Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop
Mike Cardus
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Design by 12GrainStudio Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 Posted by: mike Secrets of Social Media for Teambuilders with Tom Heck of The International Association of TeamWork Facilitators ( IATF ) Leadership TeleSeminar. Related posts: Social Marketing for Team Building.
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Managing the “Great Expectations” of the Next Sales Generation
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). How do companies motivate and manage a generation of workers who grew up receiving awards and prizes for just showing up? The Center for Sales Innovation is a national resource for women in sales.
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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
DECEMBER 11, 2011
by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. Leadership.
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201 Old Brands. New Hands. Last Stands | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 1, 2011
by John • August 1, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. At that time, Bristol-Myers also marketed a slew of also-rans such as Ipana and Fact Toothpaste, Vitalis Hair Tonic, Softique Bath Oil and Mum and Trig Deodorant. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Old Brands. Last Stands. Combe in 1949.
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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 23, 2010
Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc.,
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Management Week in Review for March 18, 2011
Management Excellence
MARCH 18, 2011
Every week, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond.
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61 The Perfect Brand Slogan | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
MAY 23, 2011
by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. Ironically, a great slogan’s constraint to longevity can be the boredom of the marketer. Marketers like change, but often they make change for change’s sake. I suggest the slogan has become generic to the market. May 23, 2011 at 4:50 pm.
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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
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.
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Strategy Driven
APRIL 24, 2011
Idea Management : Community as Innovation Partner. Learn how easy it is to capture, manage and prioritize ideas using your community of customers, employees and partners in this 5 minute video. Learn how to enrich requirements with real user stories, align them with company and market needs and prioritize them with certainty.
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50 Leader's Guide to Radical Management
Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Radical Management, though not succinctly defined by the author, is an approach to leadership and management that leads to greater job satisfaction, higher productivity, client delight and continuous innovation. Denning’s seven principles for Radical Management are: Focus work on delighting the client.
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150 Old Brands. New Hands. Last Stands | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 1, 2011
by John • August 1, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. At that time, Bristol-Myers also marketed a slew of also-rans such as Ipana and Fact Toothpaste, Vitalis Hair Tonic, Softique Bath Oil and Mum and Trig Deodorant. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Old Brands. Last Stands. Combe in 1949.
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The Essence of Strategy | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
OCTOBER 23, 2011
by John • October 23, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Innovative. Steve Jobs managed to harness the resources of 49,000 employees to introduce and successfully market a slew of breakthroughs. October 24, 2011 at 12:57 am. October 24, 2011 at 7:28 am.
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250 The Entrepreneurial Corporation: Oxymoron? | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 4, 2011
by John • April 4, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 0 Comments. I went in assuming his students believed corporate management and entrepreneurship were principles of contradiction and the only contrarians would be members of the flat earth society. Innovation and entrepreneurship began a comeback, albeit in measured bites.
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150 Management Week in Review for February 18, 2011
Management Excellence
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond.
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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.
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316 When to Restructure | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.
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289 Gjis van Wulfen: An interview by Bob Morris
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 19, 2013
He worked as a marketer in the fast moving consumer goods sector and switched to consulting at Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group. At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […].
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75 $17.14 Can Change Your Thinking. Guaranteed.
Rich Gee Group
JANUARY 7, 2011
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson makes that cut. I’d recommend it to anyone who’s ever had bursts of inspiration and wondered why they haven’t been able to replicate those circumstances, or anyone who wants to innovate at all. Candidly, I’m blown away.
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What Makes ABSOLUT, Absolute? | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
JULY 24, 2011
by John • July 24, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. The original concept, created by Art Director Geoff Hayes in a bathtub, and perpetuated by several creative notables, has managed to stand the cruel test of time and create the 3 rd largest-selling liquor brand on the globe. July 25, 2011 at 6:19 am.
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100 But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 9, 2010
All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service?
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289 Learn How to Market Like Google
CO2
AUGUST 31, 2010
The book that is being presented is written by Aaron Goldman entitled Everything I Know about Marketing I learned from Google. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. I bet the book is great too.
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74 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 31, 2011
If you want to get more done, manage your time, be more productive, (insert your favorite descriptor here). if you collect time management books and want the best new one around, pick up a copy. (It Reply Susan Young February 5, 2011 at 11:29 pm Funny – I just added this to my Audible download prior to reading this post.
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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 20, 2021
The pandemic has obviously wrought huge disruption to the labor market, both in terms of the jobs that are available and the skills required to fulfil them. The report, which focused on the UK market, reveals that not only has the frequency of training declined, but so too has the duration and quality of training. in 2011 to 6.4
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Best Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.
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320 7 TED Talks That Will Inspire You to Succeed
Lead from Within
JUNE 11, 2018
Listening to a TED Talk is a great way to gain information, discover new sources of innovation, and jump-start your life toward success. Johnson has made a study of the places where human and biological innovation thrive, from the internet to the rainforest, in search of patterns that can help us become more creative and innovative.
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