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The Call of “Not Knowing”– How Uncertainty is Still the Test of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

People who are otherwise obscure on the national scene are now showing up in news feeds and quenching a yearning for sanity, direction and confidence. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta relating to us as a parent and an executive, saying enough is enough and here are things we’re doing about it. Fascinating and fun to watch.

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7 Tips to Navigate Emotions as a Pastor During COVID-19

Ron Edmondson

I fully expect we will develop ministries and Gospel offerings to people that will advance the Gospel for years to come. So, bottom line, it’s tough. Grieving has stages. Some mornings you may wake up confused. But God has made promises for His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

In fact, deep lessons can be taught from aviation for most industries and companies who want to operate efficiently and effectively across organizational silos — those insidious barriers that wreak havoc on a company’s efficiency, collaboration, and, ultimately, its bottom line. We recommend doing this in stages, as opposed to a “big bang.”

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

We are often asked whether the best way to structure for innovation is top-down or bottom-up. Bottom-up approaches work well for incremental (keeps you in the game) innovations. It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

The least charitable explana­tion for this oversight is that despite evidence to the contrary, many senior managers still assume that a few genetically blessed souls are innately crea­tive, while the rest can’t come up with anything more exciting than suggestions for the cafeteria menu. Comprehensive innovation metrics.