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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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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. Our observation was that that’s what he called the innovator’s dilemma; now it’s the innovator’s disaster. LARRY: Sure.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. It transformed my business and career. link] mikemyatt Sound advice Angela. Best wishes for continued success Ted.

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Lessons from a Career, Interrupted

Harvard Business Review

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator

Harvard Business Review

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) via n2growth.com [.]

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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business Review

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. ” Lane also tried to engage his interviewers by asking them about their career paths and histories at the company.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'