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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. I NNOVATION has always been important.

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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. While the manufacturing startup was keen on innovation, it didn’t have a clear measure of ROI in place. Challenge Business Model Assumptions.

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The Toxic Leader

N2Growth Blog

According to Gartner’s Harter, it begins with a combination of being results oriented and authentically concerned about the development of every worker. Praise and recognition: One of our basic human needs is to feel appreciated and valued. SO, WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF LEADERS THAT BUSINESSES SHOULD NOW BE LOOKING FOR?

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Becoming a Leader: Risky Business

CO2

Typically, when you operate inside of your comfort zone, you don’t experience risk nor do you develop the ability to evaluate risk when it is presented. Innovation suffers. The real secret lies in the deeply human need to direct our own lives, learn and create, and better ourselves and our world. Change ceases.

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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

There needs to be a system for decision-making and development of leaders and managers as well as the reinforcement of values, directions and performance expectations. Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others.

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The Continuum and the Marketplace

Strategy Driven

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.