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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2024

Leading Blog

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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How the Best Leaders Help Their Employees Reach Their Full Potential

Lead from Within

Encourage stepping out of the box: Creativity and innovation are essential for any business to succeed. As a leader, this means encouraging your employees to think creatively and come up with new ideas by providing them with the tools and resources they need to explore different solutions and approaches.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Customer capitalists abide by the Golden Rule with customers, whereas financial capitalists make decisions with the bottom line as their only guide. Perhaps not. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. Their people know they’re more than a cog in the wheel or a means to an end.

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It’s the People, Stupid!

Lead Change Blog

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. People are creative. They come up with good ideas. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”.

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The Company I Keep: How Leonard Lauder Built Estée Lauder

Leading Blog

She would end up selling her $40 worth of Cosmetics.”. If you launch into the heart of the market, there’s always someone who will sell a similar product cheaper than you, and you have no way to go but down in what becomes a race to the bottom. Our director of creative services, June Leaman, often said, “One idea is a great idea.

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