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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Rogers (2003) points out the essential nature of credibility in being a change agent, embracing knowledge and safety. Rogers, E. Diffusion of innovation (5 th ed.). Journal of Managerial Issues , 26(3), 204-218,201.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years. The business case for diversity is clear.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.” appeared in an IBM investor briefing.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Skoda ran a campaign in 2015 , placing an AR mirror in a Victoria railway station in London, so that people passing by could customize a car and then see themselves driving it on a large screen. In each of these examples, the AR technology was used to engage customers at events or in public spaces.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. What went wrong?