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Gijus van Wulfen on “10 Practical Innovation Lessons from Great Explorers”

First Friday Book Synopsis

In The Innovation Expedition, Gijus van Wulfen identifies and discusses lessons to be learned from great explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Yuri Gagarin, Edmund Hillary, David Livingston, Ferdinand Magellan, and Ernest Shackleton.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2020

Leading Blog

Many leaders see their roles as presiders/managers, with a primary focus on keeping results consistent with past performance and on budget. They need to learn to launch new initiatives, inspire others, and champion innovative approaches. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. But it's not. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz.

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

At Cascade Asset Management , an environmentally minded recycler of computer components, sustainability reigns supreme, from a wholly green headquarters to employee nameplates personally made from recycled computer pieces. By Barbara T. Who says corporate culture isn’t concrete? Not America’s best workplaces. .

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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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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

We propose that older approaches to advancing surgical safety, focused on technical and structural improvements, have passed their peak; attention must now turn to innovations in how people enact their work “on the ground,” or how they organize in real time for reliable surgical performance. Standardizing procedures.

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

Strategy Driven

Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you’ll be on your way to being a great communicator.

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

The second story comes from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who last month hosted a meeting and call to address the 1,100 employees of Patch, a unit that had been losing money and was about to face some layoffs. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .”

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