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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? The trick is to separate the wheat from the chaff and then to put the valuable items to productive use.

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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

You’ve been up to your ears in the details of planning and developing new product features yourself or with your partner, but now you have too many growing management responsibilities to do as much of that. You’re afraid of losing control over quality and design. - Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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Pig Wings: Creating Demand in a New Category

Harvard Business Review

Last year they ate three billion pounds of the sauce-covered poultry products. So why not combine those two loves and create an innovative new type of food: Pig wings? He and his team are in the midst of transforming Farmland Foods from a supply/commodity company into a demand-driven innovator. Americans love chicken wings.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. Dunning-Kruger Effect Incompetent leaders overestimate their ability, not recognizing their lack of skill.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.