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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Of course, humor can be highly subjective and what one person finds hilarious another person may not – so knowing your audience is paramount. It is therefore not surprising that business leaders who score high in the effective use of humor as a tool to boost innovation also tend to score high in emotional intelligence.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Ten Innovation Myths

Harvard Business Review

That's good for audiences (at least, I think it is), but bad when I get the kind of request that landed in my in-box last week. I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients. Only creative geniuses can innovate.

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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business Review

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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The Top Tips for Building Team Performance

Roundtable Talk

" 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation. If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion. 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons turning into a groupie gift exchange.

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The Secrets to Clay Christensen's Success

Harvard Business Review

His basic two litmus tests for a good business theory are something that explains the different circumstances facing managers and the causal connection between an action and a result. Past experience as a consultant and practicing manager ensure Christensen focuses on high-impact issues, and his work manages to be both robust and usable.