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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. You call it this big bang disruption.

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The U.S. Isn’t Just Getting Older. It’s Getting More Segregated by Age.

Harvard Business Review

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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More CEOs Should Tell Anti-Environment Shareholders to Buzz Off

Harvard Business Review

At one of the company’s sustainability ”milestone meetings” in 2013, one senior exec said the initiatives would “help us keep our stores up and running no matter how bad the weather is or who else might be down.” The list included multiple questions about whether the hotel chain purchased or used renewable energy.

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A Working from Home Experiment Shows High Performers Like It Better

Harvard Business Review

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. Ctrip decided to run a nine-month experiment with its airfare and hotel divisions in the firm’s Shanghai headquarters call center.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.