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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

As I watched the documentary, I was struck by how closely the story mirrored case studies from the business world, and how perfectly it illustrated the points I try to emphasize in the leadership and innovation class I teach at MIT. If innovation is really about execution, then execution itself is really about problem-solving.

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. Video Transcript. DTC Operator. Try it out.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

Survive, Reset, Thrive (SRT) is a practical and innovative interconnected three-mode approach : Survive : Stabilizing your business when a shot hits. Reset, or how to change, is the heart of SRT. This makes the planning challenge one of how to master making great decisions, even though we cannot make great predictions.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? Gordon Berridge: Would you please share what first attracted you to join Rio Tinto back in 1991?

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2019

Leading Blog

The Coffee Bean : A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change by Jon Gordon and Damon West. The Coffee Bean: an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? 4 New Entrepreneur Problems You’re Going to Face and How to Road-Map Them by @SusanSolovic. Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Disconnected CEO : Unlike CEOs who understand how to leverage time and resources via delegation while remaining connected to management and staff, the disconnected CEO does just the opposite. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Gordon R. Thanks for stopping by and job well done Gordon. We have no private offices.

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