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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LeadershipNow 140: March 2011 Compilation
Leading Blog
MARCH 31, 2011
Here are a selection of tweets from March 2011: To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. - Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? Jack Myers Curated List of Recommended TED Talks from TED 2011. Stanford GSB: Why Failure Drives Innovation. A Changed C.E.O.
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November 2011 Edition - Strategy Execution Newsletter - On Managing Processes
Six Disciplines
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Welcome to the November issue of the Strategy Execution Newsletter from Six Disciplines. In this month's issue, we're focusing on managing processes. With each successive pass, the master process helps your workforce learn how to build stronger strategies, plan better, communicate more clearly, and work more effectively together.
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The Essence of Strategy | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
OCTOBER 23, 2011
The Essence of Strategy (Part 1). by John • October 23, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. I’ve always loved strategy. They either believe that strategy is a deterrent to opportunity or they’ve never experienced the strategic disciplines of a prudent mentor.
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LeadershipNow 140: February 2011 Compilation
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Here are a selection of tweets from February 2011: @Bill_George: I discussed Apple's Jobs succession plan on @bloomberg yesterday, today the Atlantic continues debate. Tactics Are the New Strategy in @incmagazine. Leadership and Knowledge Management by @mikemyatt. Forbes : Are We Neglecting Our Middle Managers?
The Rise Of Deglobalization
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 30, 2023
The rise of deglobalization and the resulting uncertainty in the global business landscape has prompted technology-based industries to reevaluate their overarching strategies. Furthermore, it identifies opportunities for interactions between these strategies and how the company of the future can be organized.
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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Small Business Resolutions for 2011
Coaching Tip
JANUARY 4, 2011
by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies. The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. .
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New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership?, Innovation
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 8, 2012
I don't remember seeing innovation highlighted in previous results - were those new questions? Susan : Yes, there was a new set of questions added this year around the theme of innovation, based on what we're hearing and seeing about it's importance. The Top 20 connect leadership development with the business strategy.
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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. Articles on strategy and culture were my favorites, many of which I scribed in pencil on a piece of paper that my secretary typed for posterity – oh my, that sounds archaic. They’re hardheaded about Strategy.
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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-07-01
Tanveer Naseer
JULY 1, 2011
RT @ KimAuclair : 5 Questions To Figure Out How Well You Manage Mistakes via @ TanveerNaseer [link] # RT @ mikehenrysr : Leaders – Lapses in Judgment – by @ will_lukang Today’s # LeadChange [link] # Leadership # Thanks Dave! 7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation via @ IncMagazine [link] # innovation #leadership # Thanks Michael!
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100 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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Influencing Creativity and Innovation
Persuasive Powerhouse
JULY 26, 2010
So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.
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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition
QAspire
JANUARY 8, 2014
I have been hosting the annual management improvement carnival (organized by John Hunter ) for last 3 years and I am glad to be continuing that streak. James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition.
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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50
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.
Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-01-21
Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 21, 2011
Why Good Ideas Go Bad [link] # innovation #. Encourage Customers to Buy Innovation [link] # innovation #. Leader Beware: The Perils Of The Ignorance Strategy by @ Starbucker [link] # leadership #perception #. Four Questions to Ask About an Underperforming Manager by @ JohnBaldoni [link] # leadership #.
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. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.
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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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138 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. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.
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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 23, 2010
I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two?&# In a previous post I addressed the practice of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in fairly great detail. As most of you know I am a huge fan of well conceived CRM initiatives.
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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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The Perfect Brand Slogan | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
MAY 23, 2011
by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. In my day, I started with strategy. But the assessment didn’t end with strategy. However, to Kraft’s credit (and I seldom give Kraft credit), they stuck with the strategy, but changed the slogan to Better Beans, Better Coffee. Did you like this?
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Rich Gee Group
JANUARY 7, 2011
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson makes that cut. It’s chock full of great strategies and ideas – this is not a boring ‘this is my opinion’ self-help book. Candidly, I’m blown away. Go out and buy this book today. Establish A Contract With Your Team.
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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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The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 28, 2011
The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.
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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. A team member in an innovative environment will by the very nature of the task need to take calculated risks. That may have a short-term benefit, but nips innovation in the bud.
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. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.
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Best Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) opened-up voting for The Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 yesterday , and the N2growth blog was one of 11 blogs nominated for the award. Kevin and I have been in touch and I will definitely stay linked in with him. I would love to get your insights on site and content. I Think Not.
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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. After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant.
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170 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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Complimentary Resource – Idea Management: Community as Innovation Partner
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. Click here for more information on Idea Management : Community as Innovation Partner. by Accept Corporation.
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Brand Exposure
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 16, 2011
Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. If not, then this post is for you.
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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 23, 2010
This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity.
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412 Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 25, 2010
If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?
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418 Strategy Execution Advisors Joins Six Disciplines Partner Network
Six Disciplines
MAY 3, 2011
Ohio-based Consulting Firm Sees Growth Through Strategy Execution Coaching Program. “Six Disciplines is the only program that offers a complete strategy execution framework extending from the corner office to front line personnel. Having a 21st century business management system is the backbone the new company is formed around.
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101 Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?
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300 Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 21, 2011
Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?
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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2010
offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from HBR.org. Visit this… 2 Tweets Gossip in the Workplace | N2Growth Blog By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Gossip in the Workplace…At first blush the [.] While these articles tended to stir the pot a bit, they were in my opinion mostly missing the mark.
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Changing One Thing Changes Everything
Mills Scofield
AUGUST 12, 2013
In 2011, I pitched a new job at my old job and became a full-time illustrator and storyteller for a non-profit. Content strategy became my job too. And then it started to take over as I became responsible for crafting engagement strategies to show others internally and externally how our stories could support their work.
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Management Week in Review for February 11, 2011
Management Excellence
FEBRUARY 11, 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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58 But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 9, 2010
What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Well actually, no it’s not. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.
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287 Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 20, 2011
Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mike Henry Sr. and Mike Myatt, Michelle. Michelle said: RT @mikehenrysr: RT @mikemyatt Workplace Gossip [link] #LeadChange [.] I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.
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419 Looking For Leadership
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 10, 2011
They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers.
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417 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. After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant.
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