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Five Leadership Lessons: Think Like Amazon

Leading Blog

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. Rossman adds, “If you’re going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must have a thick skin. Process versus Bureaucracy. But avoiding bureaucracy is essential.

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It’s Not Impossible – It Just Hasn’t Been Done Yet

N2Growth Blog

What if our next generation of researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics fail to challenge conventional thinking? Whenever I see leaders focus on maintenance over innovation, I see people who have unnecessarily drawn the line of impossibility in the sand. Nothing is impossible until you embrace it as such.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative.

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How to Get Your Team Thinking Like Entrepreneurs

First Friday Book Synopsis

To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. It takes a long time to execute on projects when waiting for approvals and [.].

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How to Get Your Team Thinking Like Entrepreneurs

First Friday Book Synopsis

To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. It takes a long time to execute on projects when waiting for approvals and [.].

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Three Steps to Create Optimism in the Workplace

Chart Your Course

Optimism is the original American dream: the hope of every student, new parent, entrepreneur, fledgling small business or politician. Optimistic employees work harder, longer and with a more innovative spirit. Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. In the last decade, we’ve learned to over-rely on iteration. Radhika Dutt.