Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. 37 103,000 2,813 132,141 Guy Kawasaki Innovation, Leadership Mantra: I empower people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

We know innovation drives corporate growth. As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” Historically, R&D has been viewed as the engine of national economic growth as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

There’s lots to be said for naming an innovation. Clearly communicating customer value and benefits matters enormously; what matters more is the ability to design and implement innovation as a verb. Features and functionality have largely become legacy vocabulary for innovation. They’re necessary but not sufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When it comes to microchips — the miniature machines that run so much of our lives — innovation has driven us farther than we ever thought possible. The rate of semiconductor innovation is slowing, however, the way traffic on a freeway bottlenecks as lanes diminish. Two other players to watch closely are Samsung and TSMC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Dump it, dump it all," Gordon Gekko says as the tape moves against him, and a lot of corporate divestitures have this feel to it — reactive. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. One question that seems reasonable in light of the low ($1.75

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves. STEM-driven.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

This blog, and all of my work over the last 15 years, has celebrated the spirit of innovation, disruption, and changing the game. As the piece concludes, "Many of the most talented engineers want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, not work for him.". I know, I know. The atmosphere is brutally competitive," one executive said.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Because basically my business plan model helps an entrepreneur to apply SMED (the Japanese Single-Minute exchange of Dies Tool that Toyota engineers developed) to their “conversion” from employees to bosses. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Gordon Ross, a lead tester on the Grand Theft Auto game, reportedly characterized it as “madness.” Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies. Also out of reach: a €500 million network of digital innovation hubs and the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative (a €2.8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Gordon Brown said during the campaign that Scotland’s fight should not be with London but with globalization. There was no UK strategy to enable Scotland to develop alternative engines of growth, as other small advanced economies were able to do. There will be experimentation and innovation as people figure out the best way forward.

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