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Closeout for 8.5.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. We dabbled our hand in marketing as Tim Vanderpy reviewed UnMarketing. We reposted a teaser video for Clayton Christensen’s new one The Innovative University. Click Here to Help Our Research.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. Innovation muscles can be built.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.