Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth into the world wholly original and unique to that industry. If you think about the creative world, what’s the most innovative, amazing, successful movie franchise in history? At least not in the way that you think.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

Yet for some innovation tasks, being in the same room is the best solution. Toyota uses the big open room as a way of bringing together large diverse groups to focus on creating innovative improvements to products. Second, they require collaborative working skills and attitudes. Encourage home working and they may never return.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Albeit an old film it has great lessons for leaders. Watch Twelve o’Clock High in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Movies are such a great way to help new upcoming leaders learn lessons quickly by having them watch the film and then have a discussion that follows with great learning targets.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

This was the topic of June Edition of #IndiaHRChat in presence of special guest Faisal Hoque – an entrepreneur, author of Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (McGraw Hill, Spring 2014) and contributor to FastCompany and Huffington Post. First – Learning agility.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2020

In the labor market, this risk is evident, with the premium paid for the highest skills rising at the same time as a growing number of more mundane tasks are capable of being automated.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I have this thing about Blue Lobsters, seeing them in Maine and as a metaphor for innovation in that this rare phenotype results from serendipity and random collisions of genes. In my mind art and science are so similar—the cornerstone skill of each is astute and reflective observation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? While many have scoffed at the CBS show &# Undercover Boss, &# I believe it signals a very disturbing trend. I Think Not.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

She had all the skills for the job but one; she lacked an executive presence, a certain energy, and gravitas. But what if, like this CFO, an executive has proven functional skills but is lacking in what the CEO called executive presence? One by one her group came up to be interviewed and filmed for later review.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

One day, they showed us a film about George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943) was an innovative scientist and educator. Like knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and forms of power, personal strengths help us be more effective when working through tough challenges. since 1987.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 3, 2019

People who are able to realize their calling in the world of employment often experience a perfect fit between their interests and skills and the requirements of their job,” the researchers say. Research from a few years ago found that those whose work is a calling have a greater sense that their ideal self is aligned with their actual self.

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For example if you were Kodak and your strategy was to be the number one film maker in the world and no one wanted to buy film what kind of strategy would that be? Or what if you continued to pursue this strategy and the world (OMG I hope not) no longer valued that strategy, how would you respond? Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For example if you were Kodak and your strategy was to be the number one film maker in the world and no one wanted to buy film what kind of strategy would that be? Or what if you continued to pursue this strategy and the world (OMG I hope not) no longer valued that strategy, how would you respond? Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You need to identify the components of a skill, offer coaching, and encourage employees to work on weak areas. For example, one skill that Amazon has identified as crucial to performance is writing. One of the most overlooked aspects of innovation is how much technology can enhance productivity. That’s the hard part.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

As a variety of researchers have argued, it may offer a way to better equip workers with the skills they need to succeed in the 21 st century. Papert’s work has had a major impact on how people develop knowledge, and is especially relevant for building twenty-first century skills. This is more than just a smart marketing campaign.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. screens this month comes with $70 million in foreign box office receipts already in hand, for a film that cost a modest $12 million to make.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

The reality of 2019 is that this alone represents a large scope of the necessary skill set to get started using video at the sales level. This takes very little time and can be filmed with a camera at your desk. Using these key methods: Drawing Attention to the Video. Avoid Overly-Aggressive Sales Call-To-Actions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

This would create new sources of revenue, improve communities, and offer new jobs and skill sets to employees who used to ring cash registers, stock shelves, or mop floors. Another way to redefine the terms of the automation debate is to provide stock to employees, something many of the world’s most innovative companies already do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Both a young child's brain and our young, global Internet brain are in highly creative, experimental, innovative states of rapid development -- just waiting to make connections. These were the questions that led me to make my short film, embedded below.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We shifted from a film-oriented, chemistry-based approach to a digital-oriented, arithmetic-based approach. Once prediction became cheap, innovators reframed driving as a prediction problem. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them. An example is photography.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Mindfulness mediation works to enhance creativity and innovation. In his book Mindfulness for Creativity , Danny Penman argues that mindfulness meditation and other mindfulness practices enhance three essential skills necessary for creative problem solving. Here’s what we found. First, mindfulness switches on divergent thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. Most definitely. In the U.S., Poor countries face severe resource constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. The same is true for any camera crews who might be filming your presentation. You should spend just as much energy ensuring they are delivered in a way that is impactful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

While urban areas continue to afford new opportunities to employees and businesses from all walks of life, they are increasingly split between wealthy, high-skill knowledge workers and low-paid service workers. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Because innovation requires it. No wasted film, slides, or prints. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Ethnic and gender diversity are important to business, we are assured, because they promote the kinds of product and process innovation that boost the bottom line. Yet Silicon Valley is also by far one of the most innovative collections of people not only in the U.S. But does that case have any relevance in Silicon Valley?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

After all, we have a great deal of skill with file transfer protocols." At Zappo's the employees are referred to as members of the "family"; Apple created an internal MBA program to enhance team members' skills and long-term value; and Tesco promoted its innovative CIO to CEO. Today corporations are said to be more enlightened.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. An honest self-evaluation will tell you where you have to increase your emotional and interactive skills. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. In another provocative study , researchers investigated how companies could use online role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest" to build leadership and teamwork skills.

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