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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. He edits SmartBrief’s newsletters on leadership and entrepreneurship, among others. Would you like to meet my team?

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Can You Crowdsource a Big Idea?

Harvard Business Review

This insight is almost a tagline for the rise of online distributed innovation, commonly referred to as “crowd sourcing.” Working with Professor Clayton Christensen on the research that became “The Capitalist’s Dilemma ,” and taking a page from his book, we thought, How might we disrupt our own knowledge generation process?

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Can You Train Yourself to Be the Next Steve Jobs?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Donna Fenn for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. Ignore the dumb title. Only Steve Jobs can train himself to be the next Steve Jobs. He remains a work-in-progress, exploring and embracing (sometimes celebrating) whatever intrigues and delights him in ways and to the extent his circumstances permit.