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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Grounded in solid research and three decades of entrepreneurial experience, this book has one purpose: to teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Your Company Is A Well Of Ideas – Stop Poisoning It

Strategy Driven

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. This is the insistence of companies and CEOs that their organizations lack ideas. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot.

Company 53
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Teams and Thinking Style

Coaching Tip

“With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says.

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. A CEO I counsel keeps a notebook on his desk with the heading: What makes you happy? She also has a background managing and leading executive search firms. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Why Your Innovation Contest Won’t Work

Harvard Business Review

What’s the best way to quickly improve innovation in your organization? That was the question posed to me recently by Warwick, the head of innovation for the Australia and New Zealand region of a multinational engineering firm. He asked because their CEO had just announced a new innovation initiative.

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The Secret Phrase Top Innovators Use

Harvard Business Review

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. And the 'we' part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas.".