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To Make Innovation Stick, Try Trying

Harvard Business Review

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Use catchy words. Take time to carefully craft a few messages with catchy words.

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When Health Care Providers Look at Problems from Multiple Perspectives, Patients Benefit

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized vignette highlights an important aspect of health care: Providers often have vastly different ways of seeing and treating patients, as differences in profession, specialty, experience, or background lead them to pay attention to particular signals or cues and influence how they approach problems. Insight Center.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Carrie Koens, from Weaving Influence, completes a pass to Julie Winkle Giulioni , who wrote Talent Management Systems: Sometimes the Cure Makes the Patient Sicker. Sharlyn Lauby , from HR Bartender, gets a big hit with Your Company’s Next Innovation Will Be the Result of Empathy. Miami Dolphins. Dallas Cowboys.

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How to Harness the Customer Awakening

Harvard Business Review

Consider the "My Dell hell" diatribes by prominent blogger and journalist Jeff Jarvis, or Heather Armstrong's "Maytag Nightmare" that she described in vivid detail to her 1.5 Hitachi Data Systems — Be the influencer. In particular, many businesses are experiencing similar awakenings spawned by their customers. million followers.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

3) Mental – My role as host of The Ziglar Show requires me to study the messages of today’s top world influencers, and it’s a dramatic gift. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. That’s difficult of course, and I’m nowhere near perfect, but it’s the cornerstone of influence. Just the two of us.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The political interest in influencing public opinion and the incumbents’ desire to silence competitive threats had merged. Armstrong’s Killer App. and some 500,000 homes had receivers.