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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

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Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. What’s different, in Haier’s case, is that the opportunity is offered to all, and selection is based on the quality of the proposal. billion business after two years.

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Morning Advantage: Can Markets Cure Cancer?

Harvard Business Review

Lo proposes a $30 billion fund, with both institutional and retail investors. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. boards, and yet make up less than 7 percent of senior leadership at startups. But if you do lots of research and conduct many trials at the same time, your odds of success are greater.

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Summer of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team."

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.” Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.